Instructor (1990) articles from September 1999

Instructor (1990) archives from September 1999

A marriage made in heaven.(use of technology in teaching social studies)
September 1, 1999... Tech can help your social studies curriculum sing! Develop children's skills and creativity in the use of multimedia. All good teachers want to do this. And those of us who're used technology to meet this goal know it can be done. In the...

Linking art and literature.(elementary education)
September 1, 1999... Collaborative murals inspire kids to make a bridge between literature and art Anne, Amy, and Ben painted silently, shaping circles of blue. Nahanni sketched in depth lines, while Sarah and Jay glued ashes to Masonite. Jennifer, Jeff, and...

The Farm School.(Athol, Massachusettes)
September 1, 1999... On 130 acres in New England, visiting students make a farm - and an authentic learning experience - their own At 6:30 A.M. at the Farm School, in Athol, Massachusetts, a group of visiting students is working together in the cow barn. Some...

Doubly blessed.(naming of Florence Goetter and Barbara Stevens as the 1999 National Teacher of the Year)
September 1, 1999... Although a person learns from birth to death, we generally define our education as our years of formal schooling. For me, those years stretched from my first day of kindergarten, in Macon, Georgia, through the completion of my master's degree...

How hard can this be?(learning disability)
September 1, 1999... In the author's workshops, participants wind up frustrated, angry, and in tears - and finally understand what having a learning disability means My awakening to the challenges faced by children with learning disabilities occurred nearly 30...

The multiage challenge.(multiage classroom)
September 1, 1999... In the multiage classroom, all strengths, abilities, and learning styles are welcomed, valued - and celebrated Think a moment about your friends. Most likely, they are people, older and younger than you, whom you rely on for wisdom,...

The good shepherd.(teacher Lucy Shepherd)
September 1, 1999... Author J.K. Rowling recalls the teacher who inspired an appreciation of hard work, good books - and comfortable shoes My favorite teacher at school was a teacher of English - no surprises there. Miss Shepherd was young, with a dry sense of...

Reach for the rainbow.(Reading Rainbow video)
September 1, 1999... Learning can be exciting - when students make their own Reading Rainbow video Butterfly in the sky, I can fly twice as high. Take a look, it's in a book, a reading rainbow... Sing just the first four words of this song, and just about...

Seeking refuge.(classroom safety)
September 1, 1999... A bullet finds its way into a child's life, and a teacher's classroom Do you know what this is? Do you?" I stood before Maurice, a student in my second-grade class, holding in my hand a tiny lump of metal. "No," he said, not looking...