Teaching is an act of practical reasoning, persuasiveness, problem solving, and communication. It needs to be shaped by science but much of it is improvisation rooted in experience.
Learn how to use the SETT framework to identify a struggling student’s learning needs and match that with the most appropriate assistive technology options. A case study is provided.
The Simple View of Reading is a formula demonstrating the widely accepted view that reading has two basic components: word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension. Research studies show that a student’s reading comprehension score can be predicted if decoding skills and language comprehension abilities are known.
What does good elementary literacy instruction look like? In this article, Allington identifies and discusses about these six features: time, texts, teach, talk, tasks, and test.
We deserve lesson plans that are based on evidence and effective strategies, not on standards and wishful thinking. Equity isn’t about rushing to grade-level standards — it’s about providing the methodical teaching that the students in our classrooms deserve.
What does thunder and lightning have to do with ants and birthday cakes? How are gardens like boats? Why are baths similar to green peppers? And what do any of these have to do with an adventure inside a digestive track? Each can be explored now! Gardens grow; ants visit picnics (and gardens); there is indoor and outdoor water play and more. So find a cool place, pick up a book, and discover the stuff of summer!
It’s a new year and things are on the move! Visit a firehouse, put on wings and fly through poetry. Take a trip to the moon. Travel by train — old or modern. You can do this and more in the pages of these books suggested here.
Use the power of stories to explore what’s different and the same, new and shared, about ourselves and our experiences. These nine books find wonderful ways to express universal themes through African Americans, both fictional and real.
Are students who use assistive technology getting an unfair advantage? Will AT fix a student’s learning challenges? Here are the top three misconceptions about AT and how it is used in the classroom and at home.
Take this simple quiz to help you become more mindful in using digital technology with young children. It’s all about content that is educational and developmentally appropriate, a context that encourages conversation and learning, and the needs of each individual child.
