Julie’s Blog

It is so important to me when thinking about classroom management to remember two key factors.  First, I am managing children therefore my expectations must be appropriate.  Secondly, in regards to these expectations I must remember that motivation, morality and integrity are developmental components.  Just as cognitive ability develops differently in each child, likewise do [...]

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To begin, I found it ironically humorous that after I read the Goodman article in which he speaks so negatively regarding McGraw-Hill publications and those who endorse them, I picked up Teaching To Change the World and noticed that it was actually published by McGraw-Hill.  In the same way, I have found it ironically humorous [...]

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The second letter reveals Freire’s beliefs in constructivist learning theory.  He wrote about how a reader’s response to an author is like an exchange because the reader brings what he/she knows and believes to the text.  He also described the benefits of group readings in which several people discuss their interpretations of a given text [...]

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I drew several parallels between the circumstances mentioned in the article and issues that Georgia teachers contend.  First, the five day trainings in which teachers were to attend leaving their students in the classroom with substitutes reminded me of the initial Georgia Performance Standards training.  Teachers planned to miss up to eight days in a [...]

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