All Blog Posts Tagged 'reading' (4)

The presentation provides information on learning effectively and efficiently through different learning styles, multiple intelligences and learning strategies. … Continue

I am one who usually poohahs "contests" but I've also seen how it can motivate students and even teachers! So just like how I teach - I discount nothing as "horrible". If it works, it works. Pragmatism and a focus on outcomes, keep me healthy. In this vein, I've started a contest and hope some Fireside members will participate OR even get their students participating. I find this to be the apex of all great teaching - when the students are making the content. In doing so, they are learning so m… Continue

May look like a hodgepodge, but somehow this is where I've settled in my studies the last three weeks. Taking it in, taking it in, taking it in. A knowledge fest. All of these books I've read and am now rereading my underlines, to sift and sort through the major ideas. Preparing for… Continue

Hunkered down and sulking about the weather, I read The Birth House straight through. It was the perfect next novel after Out Stealing Horses. Both books are about the strengths of common people, what they learn through their lives. Somehow I'm reminded of Giants of the Earth, also those southern novels I consumed at one point, composed of simple yet deceptively poetic language: The Dollmaker, Hunter's Horn, and a batch that followed those. Looking for suggestions for… Continue