RTI Questions

What questions or concerns do you still have about Response To Intervention? We will be talking about case studies at the staff meeting Tuesday night.

Struggling Readers Professional Development

What is one thing you learned at our joint Glencairn-Whitehills PD meeting about struggling readers that you would like to use in your classroom?

MACUL Experience

For those of you who attended, what was one "really cool" thing you learned at the Michigan Association of Computer Users Learning (MACUL) conference in Detroit?

Wormeli Chapter 9- Question #6

What are your thoughts on “extra-credit”?

Wormeli Chapter 9- Question #5

Please respond to the following, “If we want grades to be accurate indicators of mastery, then we have to remove any barrier to students coming to know the material.”

Wormeli Chapter 9- Question #4

How do you use “quizzes” in your classroom?

Wormeli Chapter 9- Question #3

“Confabulation is when the mind seeks the big-picture connections of something it has learned, and when it doesn’t find all the pieces of the puzzle, it makes up information or borrows from other memories and inserts false information into the holes of missing understanding.” -Rick Wormeli


How does the above affect kids in our classes today?

Wormeli Chapter 9- Question #2

What are your thoughts in response to Wormeli’s quote, “Ages ten to eighteen rival ages zero to two in terms of how much we change”? Remember that our fastest growth spurt occurs from ages zero to two physically, emotionally, and intellectually.

Wormeli Chapter 9- Question #1

Of the top ten practices that Wormeli says to avoid what are the practices that you agree with and what are the practices that you disagree with? Which of these would you want to discuss and why?

Wormeli Chapter 8- Question #5

What are your thoughts about late work? Do you accept it? Does it get full credit? Under what circumstances?