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A Model Administrator

On January 4th, 2010 I had the pleasure of presenting a seminar on teaching strategies to over 150 teachers from  Havana School District 126 in Havana, Illinois.  The Superintendent, Dr. Mark Twomey,  was there too meet me before the session started, he not only introduced me, he STAYED for the entire presentation.   It’s not [...]

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Disability. Difference. Diversity.

The goal—that is, the content to be learned–is still the same for all students, but the path to learning can become much more varied and responsive to the different learning styles and levels of the students in the classroom.

Once the basic concepts are understood, though, there are many simple and effective techniques for implementing differentiated instruction in the classroom. Introducing pictures and images, movement-based exercises, cooperative projects, and color-coded instruction aids are four teaching strategies that target the special needs of diverse learning styles, while still benefiting all the students in that [...]

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Transition With Song

Transition With Song

Kindergarten teacher Marna Ingerson of Lancaster Schools writes, “All of my transitional directions are sung. ‘Line up! Line up! Everybody line up!’ Directions for activities: ‘Turn your eyes up here, up here’. Repeat and point up or down or left or to the chart. Then we begin [...]

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