I’ve had my book, “Please Help Me With My Homework: Strategies for Parents and Caregivers” translated into Spanish. I was advised to have it translated into Castilian Spanish so that it would be universal. So, that’s the dialect the book is presently in. I am not Spanish speaking. I had the book translated because of the need for Spanish speaking parents to have a resource to support their students. I do a lot of work with schools that have a significant bi-lingual population and believe this book may help some familes. [...]
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Co-teaching Seminars This Week Here in St. Louis (Clayton, actually). Checked in, shuttle driver took me to Whole foods – did groceries, going to polish my co-teaching presentation before bed. Tomorrow St. Louis, Tuesday: Springfield, MO, Wed: Kansas City, MO, Thurs: Minneapolis, MN, and Friday, FARGO!!! Co-teaching Coaching Last Week Last week I was working with Permian High [...] Myers Briggs and Personality Types and Learning Environments Sometimes I wish I could have my audience do the MBTI indicator just to see if my experience is validated with the results. Sometimes, it just seems to work out that I have an audience of primarily Introverts. Add to that the generally reserved nature of Midwesterners and [...] Woodington Middle School Workshop on Flexible Grouping and Acceleration Centers (™) In history, some chapters are long and packed with information. Sometimes I think – how can I present this effectively? It’s too much! Here’s what Susan Streetman from Nederland High School in Texas [...] “Differentiated Instruction Strategy Blast” presented at seminar at Gilmanton School. Teachers were motivated and positive staff and shared some outstanding ideas for vocabulary [...] Behavior Management Cue Card Approach! Rochelle Middle School Teachers Working Hard to Engage Students Today, I worked with two groups of teachers at Rochelle Middle School who are interested in learning more strategies to differentiate instruction and meet their students needs. We discussed behavior management strategies for working with groups and Four Corners activites, and quietly cueing kids to get on task [...] Teaching Nouns with Humor When I teach nouns to my resource students, I always begin with this concrete strategy. With a regular trash can in the front of my room I drop a pencil, book, eraser, etc into the can. I then tell them these are all “things”, and all “things” are nouns! I then step [...]
Fearless Fractions Fearless fractions: grades 4-9. Teaches teachers how to use color to introduce the addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers. Each fraction has its own color as in Rainbow Fraction® Teaching System. Fractions cannot be added or subtracted until they become the same color (common denominators). Ratios, probability, percents, proportions, and making predictions [...] |
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