It's summer-time and time to get some reading done! Myself and my Tools for Teaching Teens collaborators are going to read and review Differentiation and the Brain, How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom , by David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson.We will each be reviewing different chapters, and those blog posts will be linked together as we go. If you're interested in learning more about this book, check back and follow the links to the different chapters:) I'm going to give a quick review of the book introduction here, and then later today I'll be reviewing Chapter 1. According to the authors, differentiation is brain-friendly and brain-compatible! They describe the rise, fall, and rise of differentiation, starting with the one-room schoolhouses, where teachers taught all subjects to all students, of all ages, and HAD to differentiate - there was no other way! As the country's population grew, public schools grew, and students were separat...
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Last Wednesday got away from me because I was workin' on watching Aladdin on Broadway! I almost forgot about today, too, because my son was scheduled for a root canal, so that was on my mind. Anyway, here is this week's Workin' On It Wednesday - I hope you will link up below!
Thanks for a great linky party. Lots of great ideas here! I work as a teacher at the zoo; tell your son our cheetah had to have a root canal! Seriously!!
ReplyDeleteWow, I never would have thought of that for a cheetah! I will definitely tell my son:)
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