What Students Must Be Able to Do:
Chapters 45-66
I hope these last chapters will help you meet the writing goals of your content. If you would like my help in implementing any of the things Burke has suggested in this book, let me know. I will be happy to work with you to design something "Burkeish" that will work for you in your content area. I will also be happy to come and work with you and your students if you would like to try some of Burke's ideas out in your class.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
Evaluate Your Teaching and Students' Progress
Chapters 33-44
"Teachers have too often feared data, and for understandable reasons: the information has too often been used in counterproductive ways to judge or otherwise criticize them."(p. 157)
I have never really understood how or why we fear data. We must take the time to analyze our students' mistakes so we can correct our own teaching mistakes.
Make sure you notice the Academic Vocabulary on pages 179 and 180. Oftentimes our students could do better on tests, in class and on assignments if we just teach them the language of the tests.
Let us here what you think about these chapters.
Chapters 33-44
"Teachers have too often feared data, and for understandable reasons: the information has too often been used in counterproductive ways to judge or otherwise criticize them."(p. 157)
I have never really understood how or why we fear data. We must take the time to analyze our students' mistakes so we can correct our own teaching mistakes.
Make sure you notice the Academic Vocabulary on pages 179 and 180. Oftentimes our students could do better on tests, in class and on assignments if we just teach them the language of the tests.
Let us here what you think about these chapters.
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