What is True Arts Integration?
When I hear that teachers are integrating the arts into their teaching, I get exciting for them and their students. What a wonderful opportunity they have to learn the required curriculum AND learn more about an art form. However, it often seems that that what is...
Don’t Let Your Cheese Get Moldy
In his parable, Who Moved My Cheese? (G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1998), Spencer Johnson exposes many human behaviors as four characters (two mice and two Littlepeople) live in a maze searching daily for their cheese. Cheese is used as a metaphor for things we work for, need,...The Best of Both Worlds: Part Three
A few days after FCAT, my principal sent around an email advertising the 2010 Lee County Student Film Festival. I asked my class if they would be interested in making a movie. They were astoundingly enthusiastic about it. They decided they wanted to make an...The Best of Both Worlds: Part Two
Glasser-Sterling has a much wider scope then I have described it, so when I say I used as much as I could…it amounted to not much, considering the scope of it as a whole. So, I changed my classroom rules. Instead of follow directions, stay on task, and show respect,...Log in here:
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