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Address Skills at Performance Points
In the photo above you see a contrast between how children learn and how educators often teach necessary skills. Children learn to ride a bike by actually performing the target skills. This is a performance point – the setting in which the child actually performs. In school students are often taught necessary skills in isolation,…
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Self-Help Skills Video Presentation
See the video (link below) to find out about this photo.I believe one of the greatest problems in education is the challenge students have in taking an active role in the learning process. This is a video of a presentation on issues related to academic self-help skills and how to develop them. This is especially…
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Lone Ranger vs Self-Help
In leadership class I studied the Lone Ranger approach to problem-solving. When a problem arose in an organization the boss would ride in and solve the problem. Afterwards he or she would ride off and the employees would be no better prepared for the next crisis or problem. The point of the analogy is empowerment…
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Post-Secondary Outcomes as Accountability Measure
Unprepared College Freshmen Could Be The Cost Of High Schools Huffington Post Education has a story about states considering action to hold school districts accountable for their graduates having to take remedial courses upon entering college. Of course there are many factors that affect a student’s performance in college but high schools can do more…
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Notebook Strategy
I use what I call a table of contents notebook strategy. Each item (notes, handout etc.) that is to be placed into the notebook is dated and labeled with a “page” number. Each page is recorded in the table of contents. This helps students maintain work in chronological order. For example, on a single day…