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Giving Choices Assist in Gaining Cooperation

Giving Choices Assist in Gaining Cooperation

  The best lesson plans don’t work if you do not have a student’s cooperation. Something that I have found is that by allowing the student some control of a situation you are able to not only garner their attention and focus but the efforts…

Active Learning at the College Level

Active Learning at the College Level

This has been a FABULOUS summer integrating gamification, technology, and active learning during a graduate course at Providence college on Language Disorders. Regretfully this is the last summer as the program it was part of has at this point been discontinued. It has been a…

A Fabulous Read to Ignite Your Teaching

A Fabulous Read to Ignite Your Teaching

One of my favorite things to do in the summer is read on the beach.  When that reading transforms my thinking or my practice of teaching I feel doubly gifted. Edrenaline Rush by John Meehan is one such book. This may end up being a series as…