Monthly Archives: September 2011
Who Says You Can’t Teach Writing in Science?
| September 28, 2011 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Thoughts |
I borrowed an idea from John Spencer about using a photo writing prompt to get some creative juices flowing in learners. There is a Tumblr page that has a collection of writing prompts to help start that process. Tumblr is blocked, so I hopped on to compfight.com and searched the word “quiet.” I got this… more
Adapting for Learning – Planning and Implementation
| September 26, 2011 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Teaching |
Here is what I’m look at for the middle steps of The Ladder I’m trying to build up for my learners. You can read Part 1 here. Obviously, before we begin these steps (3 and 4), we’ve given them the learning objectives for the chapter we’re moving to and they’ve taken some form of pre-assessment… more
Adapting for Learning – The Ladder
| September 24, 2011 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Teaching |
It’s been a week since I’ve written. That is both good and bad…I got a lot more work done this week, but now I have about 1000 ideas flying through my brain, and I have to organize some of them in order to keep functioning. This is my grandest idea out of all of them,… more
Educator, Learner
| September 17, 2011 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Thoughts |
This morning I’ve been reflecting on the last year of teaching and what growth I’ve had and what growth I still need to accomplish. My first attempt at blogging was called Mastering Chemistry and I tried to reason out what it meant to build chemistry students. I wrote mainly about my classes and the blog was… more
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