Monthly Archives: September 2007

Thanks to the top referrers for Teach Effectively!

Joanne Meier of “Sound it Out” at Reading Rockets;
D-edreckoning;
KitchenTableMath;
Liz Ditz (I Speak of Dreams); and
Miss Profe (It’s a Hardknock Teacher’s Life).

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If I had to pick one educational group with whom I’d like to have conversations about teaching effectively, it would be administrators. I regularly think that administrators who understood the principles of effective instruction (e.g., given choices among methods, go with those methods that produce better outcomes for students) would … Continue reading →

On his self-named blog, Mathew K. Tabor posted his response to a quotation by David Warlick. Mr. Warlick suggested that administrators might ask prospective teachers what blogs they read and students in schools of education might ask their instructors a like question. In his post?Don’t Ask This Question, Part I … Continue reading →

Anne Graves, who’s a professor at San Diego State University (CA, US), has an entry on her blog that includes background information on selected well-known special educators. For each person, there is a Web reference and an interview. Here’s the link. Happy exploring! Continue reading →

At a meeting in Santiago (Chile), a distinguished group of researchers issued a statement explaining that brain research doesn’t have much to say about education. That’s the good news, and it deserves to be echoed. More good news is that the group supported evidence-based education.

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The US Department of Education released results of a study examining how the current incarnation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (“No Child Left Behind”) has affected the quality of the faculties in US schools. The report, entitled State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, … Continue reading →

Program Officer – Education
The Harvest Foundation
www.theharvestfoundation.org
Martinsville, Virginia

Position Summary:
Program Officers are the primary grant-making professionals at the Harvest Foundation. Program Officers are assigned to work closely with community organizations, local leaders and officials to determine needs and opportunities for grant making. Program Officers work independently as well as in teams … Continue reading →

The European Unified Approach for Assisted Lifelong Learning (EU4ALL), which is a group of educators and others working on the problems of learners who are atypical, has a survey soliciting people’s views of learning environments. I thought some folks might be interested in participating. Here’s a snippet from the … Continue reading →

Clinical Child Psychologist with a focus on Autism for a faculty position and to direct the Kentucky Autism Training Center (KATC) College of Education & Human Development, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
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Please see the below assistant professor opening at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. There are many exciting teaching and research opportunities at UI including project REACH(http://www.education.uiowa.edu/reach/), a two-year, comprehensive, campus-based, certificate program for students with multiple learning and cognitive disabilities.

Iowa City is a great place to live and … Continue reading →