Two

Welcome to Week Two! This week we will continue our focuse on students--getting to know them and finding ways to help them become better learners.


 * Readings**
 * 1) Read Chapters 1 (pages 27-53) of the Jackson book.
 * 2) Read "Start Where Your Students Are," p. 6-10, //Educational Leadership// February 2010--an article from Robyn Jackson on Classroom Currency. While it echoes what is in her book, it's a short piece that is worth the reading time. [|February 2010 Educational Leadership]
 * 3) If you are interested, you may wish to check out the Google Books excerpt from A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby Paine.


 * Tasks**
 * 1) Watch the lecture in VoiceThread below; if you want a copy of the presentation it's here, since it cut some off last week. [[file:Week Two.pptx]]
 * 2) If you are interested, watch this overview of the Winning Words DVD. All TIE member schools received a copy of this in 2008.
 * 3) Take the Poverty Quiz below and submit your responses.
 * 4) Create your own graphic organizer for something you will be teaching (or doing) soon. Post your organizer (or your idea for one) to the wiki under Graphic Organizer.
 * 5) Respond to the discussion questions. Note--the discussion questions from the lecture can be found by clicking on the Discussion Board link to the right. There are three discussion questions posted in the Discussion Board.

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