Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Susan ‘s Articles for
Education
Visual Search Engines and Visual Learners
When I consider how often we have students search the web for information, I wonder how many times struggling readers look at a page of search results and feel like they are reading a foreign...
Capitalizing on Vocabulary
Communicating concepts in ways that all students in the classroom, with their various learning styles, can understand is a real challenge. Sometimes, as teachers, we find ourselves using...
FREE Teacher (and Student) Websites!
Teachers and Students Connect Online An easy way for teachers, students, and parents to stay connected is through the teacher’s website. Teachers can post classroom information, homework...
What I’m Thankful For on this Thanksgiving Day
On this Thanksgiving Day, while the rest of the family is watching football (I’m not a football watcher) I thought it might be a good time to reflect on some of the things that I’m thankful for....
Music as a Behavior Management Strategy
I talk a lot about the value of music as a teaching strategy and, in most of my sessions, I discuss the effectiveness of music as a way to calm and focus students. A couple of teachers in my fall...
NCTE: High School Readers and Writers
I woke up early on a SATURDAY, so that I could listen to Jeff Wilhelm, author of You Gotta BE the Book and Reading Don't Fix No Chevys and Penny Kittle, author of Write Beside Them. Both Jeff and...
NCTE: Reading Identity
I saw a few reading rock stars this afternoon-- spending a delightful ninety minutes watching Franki Sibberson, Debbie Miller, Ann Marie Corgill, and Karen Szymusiak where they discussed methods...
It’s a Ning Thing
In a session on engaging students in online literary responses, there were some interesting discussion points about the use of blogs for fostering literary interpretations (ie, students read To...
Comings and Goings – Two weeks of Co-teaching Coaching and Training
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....
Resource for Working with Visual or Hearing Impaired Students
Linda Lamirande of ESC 16 in Amarillo, Texas, told us about the Described and Captioned Media Program, or DCMP. The program calls itself "a unique educational accessible media resource serving...
Dropout Prevention Strategies
In the current economic environment, dropout rates tend to rise and we, as teachers, struggle to find ways help our students succeed. The issue of students dropping out of school continues to be...
Power, Caring, and the Traditional Classroom
I wrote this article back in the mid nineties. I came across it the other day and found that even in the re-reading, it challenged my thinking. For that reason alone, I invite you to consider...