Take a minute or two and introduce yourself.
* Where do you teach?
* How long have you been teaching?
* What was your most memorable unit this year?
* What do you hope to change for next year?
* Anything else?
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What is this?
This BLOG is a forum for members of the RIWP's
Planning for Change summer 2008 to exhange ideas, to offer help
and to post
writing from class.
Facilitators:
Pam Fracareta
Tim Kenney
Ron to the Rescue
Lisa Checks in
I-Search Papers
If we kept this blog up, how likely would you be to read and post during the school year?
Ron's You Tube Video "Teacha Teacha"
RIWP Embedded Institute
TEXTS FOR THE CLASS
SYLLABUS FOR CLASS
COMPUTER AND LIBRARY ACCESS
If you want to check out books or have complete access to the computer labs at RIC, you need to go to Campus Card at the Union Building. They will issue you a temporary ID card for use during PFC. Once you have the card, you can use the computer lab. However, to use it in the library, you must take the card to the circulation desk to have the bar code activated.
I-SEARCH HELP
USEFUL LINKS
- This link provide lesson plan information broken down by topic or subject. Take a look.
- Read Write Think is a useful resource for teachers
- This web site breaks now cutting edge web sites into 7 useful ones for teachers. These are broken down by year. Some very interesting ones.
- Link to research on why teachers should use blogging
- One Laptop per Child--offers free laptop computers to kids around the world
- Free Rice is a web site that asks students vocabulary words and then donates rice to the WFO for every word that they get right.
- Quiz Developer
- National Writing Project
- Rhode Island Writing Project
- Teacher Tube
- Moodle
- Div Share
- Daily Motion
- Tech Friends
FAVORITE BOOKS
- The English Teacher's Companion
5 comments:
I've never "blogged" before, so I hope I am doing this correctly! My name is Lauren Hopkins, and I am a teacher at Coventry High School. This will be my eighth year teaching both English and Literacy at the high school. My most memorable unit this year was with my ninth grade class as we examined teenage dating violence in both fiction and non-fiction. My students loved the readings that we did together, but they still struggle with choosing independent reading books that they enjoy. I look forward to meeting everyone on the 14th!
Lauren--
You did fine!
Your lesson on teeange dating sounds very interesting. What books did you use in your unit? Do you enjoy Coventry High School? Is Pam Blanco still a teacher there?
Thanks! We worked primarily with the novel Breathing Underwater. The kids absolutely loved it, and I had some great supplemental materials from the RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Both the kids and I were stunned by the statistics, and it made for excellent discussion. I work with some awesome educators at CHS, and Pam is one of them. I actually took the Lit Institute with her four years ago--she is phenomenal!
My name is Alicia McCormick and I teach at Johnston High School. The problem that I had with both books ties in to Laurens comment on chosing her own material. We have departmental exams that test content PLUS all the high stakes tests that are trying to measure process and gse's. Where does anyone have time to add creative selections. I need to focus on creative delivery!
Greetings! My name is Jennifer Black, and I teach 6th grade (all subject areas) at a small public elementary school in western Mass. Why am I taking a summer course at RIC?? Well, I am a native of RI and my mom is a RIC alumnus (education, of course!). I thought it would be fun to base at my mom's house and take a course through a different branch of the NWP. Anyway, my favorite unit this past year was "Immigration". We read the book "Maggie's Door", by Patricia Reilly Giff, and explored both the history of immigration in the U.S. and the current state of affairs. We concluded the unit with a trip to Ellis Island in NYC!! I'm looking forward to getting my hands on the book (I just signed up for this course last week!) and getting started!
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