There are four main kinds of status that seem to play a strong role in classroom encounters. Group work seems especially affected by the roles that various children seem to fill.
Expert status: This refers to the ability of children to make fine distinctions among individuals to determine who is the “expert” in the chosen field. [...]
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Van de Walle’s chapter on Problem Solving has been incredibly helpful in planning for my own teaching. He carefully deconstructs the methods used by effective teachers to and scaffolds beginning teachers well as they begin experimenting with lesson plans. Though the focus of the book is math, these methods could easily and effectively be applied [...]
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There is so much content to cover when thinking about the pedagogy of reading that there’s no way I could possibly succeed in one blog post. So before I begin, I must concede defeat (not a very promising start!). With that said, I want to ask the most basic of questions: What IS reading? If [...]
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The upcoming election has spawned the cyclical jockeying of special-intrest groups for public exposure. The unfortunate side of this is that a lot of elbows are thrown with little to show for it. Tempers flare, lines are drawn, and things quiet down while wounds heal; four years later, the cycle repeats. On the plus side, [...]
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