Sunday, March 27, 2011

Signing Your Work

I have a fascination with cars and I spent the weekend looking at how exotic sports cars are manufactured.  One of the most interesting things is that everything is hand-made to factory/customer specs.  Each engine is proudly labeled by the person who made it.  Imagine the pride and accountability that goes along with signing your work.  For this week's post, please describe if and how your teaching would differ if everyone of your students left your classroom with a label that told the world who taught them and where they attended school last?  Ponder this, could you clearly describe your interventions for each child and how you differientiated instruction for EACH one of your students?  Please post by Friday of this week.  Thanks and have a great week!!!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Whale Done

For this week's post, I would like for you to read the first two chapters of "Whale Done" and reflect on the content.  Please keep your comments to Chapters 1 & 2.   In your reflection, consider these guiding questions:
-Are the Whale Done principles doable?
-What are benefits of doing this?
-How hard would it be to do this both personally and professionally?
-Who would benefit if I am successful at changing?