Author: Vickie
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Teaching about classroom management
This has always been puzzling to me. There are many “systems” and methods, but I’ve never been able to get to the heart of the matter in a way that satisfied me and helped my students. Then this semester I was observing a student teacher in his first placement. I’ll call him Mike. Mike had…
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The curriculum of race in a nominally desegregated school
by Clara Burch This essay by Clara was based on observations in classrooms in a public school in Middle Georgia. I learned a lot from these assigned classroom observations. I learned that it is not difficult to become invisible in a classroom. I learned that observing with a focus is different from a general observation.…
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Postmodern science education research
An oxymoron? What would be the contours of such a project? As I (and I am all I’ve got) see it– An understanding of science as a socially constructed set of practices with the purpose of making and evaluating claims about the nature of a taken-as-shared objective world; An understanding that an objective world exists…
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Handling children’s questions
Here is a link to a chapter by Wynne Harlan about inquiry questions. http://www.learner.org/workshops/lala2/support/harlen2.pdf
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balancing equations: algebra v. chemistry
Yesterday in our content pedagogy class, we were talking about key ways of thinking in the disciplines, which we called signature pedagogies. A proposal for a signature pedagogy brought up by a chemistry teacher included balancing equations. One of the high school math teachers suggested that balancing equations is a concept in algebra also. The…
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Content Area Presentations 6598/6950
I’m posting these for the convenience of the class, since D2L is being uncooperative. I’ll be taking them down in a week or two, since they don’t really belong in the public sphere. However, they are quite worthy of being seen! Click on the links. Social Studies. (Just click on the url.) http://msletze.edu.glogster.com/twelve-years-a-slave/ Social Studies.…
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GSTA Conference Presentation 2/7/2014
Click on the links to download Powerpoint Newton’s Cars Lab Instructions
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4th Annual Institute for Teachers of Color
This will be held at San Jose State University in California, June 25-27 2014. The application deadline is April 1. Go to www.instituteforteachersofcolor.org to register.