Mr. Yearwood loves teaching and has a passion for it primarily because he enjoys interacting with people. He is excited about Geography and loves sharing ideas and concepts about this subject. Consequently, he employs a variety of methods and techniques that make Geography exciting and interesting.
Dr. Keith Explores is a new blog series written by Dr. Keith Yearwood, a geoscientist at the University of Maryland. Dr. Keith takes pieces of our natural world and explains them one at a time, encouraging and helping all of us to be more attentive to our surroundings. At the end of each post is a piece of technology, project, method or organization to help you.
Imagine yourself to be a bit of chemical substance that if someone swallows you, they can get very ill. You are flushed down the kitchen sink and you find yourself surrounded by the water that helped to flush you down the sink. You travel through many pipes and end up in a larger pipe and join many other chemical friends.
As schools begin to integrate technology into all areas of academics I’m nervous about the extent to which we make this integration meaningful especially in terms of assessments. Inside are three of my own questions and my answers to them. Hopefully, the US education system can begin to move in the right direction.
Internet access. In the US, I’m not sure if it’s a luxury or a necessity. However, I am sure that children today benefit from using the Internet to supplement their traditional school education. We know that there are books, videos, games, and countless other online resources to help children learn.
Jessica Martinez is in her twelfth year as an educator. She spent nine years as a classroom teacher before becoming an instructional coach. She gives her thoughts on technology in education and specifically at Bancroft Elementary. Keep reading to learn more about some of the benefits and drawbacks she’s seen.
My school district, like many across the country uses the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) and Text Reading and Comprehension (TRC) assessments to measure elementary students’ reading abilities. These are a series of probes that evaluate skills indicators such as word fluency, retelling, synthesis, and inferring.
In this post from guest blogger, Jessica Sanders of www.learn2earn.org, explore some of the new and efficient ways to help raise money for your school community. School fundraisers are a necessary evil, but that doesn’t mean they need to be a pain to facilitate. Luckily, technology is making it easier to run effective fundraisers without the headaches.
It stands for Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Space. ALEKS is an assessment and learning system that is completely Web-based. It uses effective questioning to gauge a student’s skills and accurately tells me what they’ve mastered, what they haven’t mastered, and what they’re ready to learn next.
Many elementary students would need to use manipulatives to solve the division problem above, probably by counting out 30 of some object then partitioning them into groups of six. But, how come as an adult, you were able to solve this problem without manipulatives? Is it because you learned math in school without manipulatives?
