http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org where teachers meet Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:58:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I hope you found your day at UNH valuable. I'm hoping we can discuss the field trip experience on the blog, since we'll likely run out of time to fully hear from everyone during class. In particular, I'm hoping you'll reflect on how well we are preparing our students to ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/10/23/college-field-trip/ Hello teachers, There is a wonderful blog on the nytimes.com web site that I thought you might be interested in. It is a collection of essays written by teachers from many areas of the country and from different educational settings. They talk about their work or a challenge they are facing ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/10/21/lesson-plans-blog/   Published Online: September 5, 2008 Published in Print: September 10, 2008   COMMENTARY It's Not What We Teach, It’s What They Learn —Illustration by Gregory Ferrand for Education Week By Alfie Kohn     I never understood all the fuss about that old riddle—“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear, does it ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/09/10/great-article-worth-reading/ Welcome to our new members of the Learning Through Teaching class... and welcome back to the many of you returning for the course. I am looking forward to a new group. We have 16 teachers registered so far. Our text Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice is on order.  For our ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/09/08/welcome-back/ So we're heading into the homestretch here... Memorial Day weekend, spring sports awards, academic awards, scheduling courses for the fall... it feels like the end of the school year! I know I am happily anticipating mornings in my gazebo writing and thinking with my dog Cody snoring at my feet. ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/05/23/summer-reading-for-teachers/ I've been searching for more information on the gender gap in literacy. It is pretty compelling. I've pasted in below some of what I found, plus Boy-friendly Teaching.  From a recent study reported by the National Bureau of Economic Research, “Overall, the data suggest that, "a large fraction of boys' dramatic ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/05/07/more-research-on-the-gender-gap/ I found myself remembering little moments from Tom's visit yesterday as I drove home. The graph of worldwide gender differences in literacy in 4th grade was an amazing collection of statistics. Why don't we honor the natural development of boys in literacy, which clearly is not at the same pace as ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/04/30/after-tom-newkirks-visit/ Tom Newkirk says in one of the articles I put in your box to prepare for his visit to our school, "By now, the difficulty that boys as a group experience in school literacy is no longer news. Boys fall behind girls in reading and writing early on, never to ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/04/01/masters-of-fake-reading/ In a recent post, Amy said, "I agree with Suzanne and Darron.  I have been in a few public schools now and it all seems the same, how many of us are really that insane to keep giving up as much as we do for 25 years!  I don’t think ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/03/11/teaching-the-best-of-times/ Hello all,Most of you have not posted yet about Tom Newkirk's article on reading, but I found this blog essay over break and wanted to share it with you. It is another thread to our discussion of reading. You can respond to this essay and post or Tom's, or both. Let ... http://learningwithteachers.edublogs.org/2008/02/25/continuing-to-think-about-reading/