10 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 ...
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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 ...
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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!
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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.
Under the headline "The Brain/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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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It was heartening (sort of like a little kid getting a pat on the head) to see that Instructivist caught the same story debunking learning styles from Great Britain that LD Blog covered recently. Wooohoo!
Instructivist’s coverage (but check the comments). (Link to a list of our earlier posts on this belt-level approach that’s based [...]
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KidsHealth, which is supported by Nemours Foundation, provides a very wide range of resources about child health. There are multiple articles aimed at children and youths with Learning Disabilities. Although they may be relatively superficial, they are written in a readable way and reasonably accurate.
Here’re links for entries for kids about learning problems and [...]
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The Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD) will hold it’s annual conference in just a few weeks. Here’s the scoop about it.
Hello from the Council for Learning Disabilities! We are busy preparing for our 29th International Conference on Learning Disabilities to be held at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel (Myrtle Beach, SC) from [...]
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Teachers: Learn about evidence-based practices!
Join more than 20 renowned presenters for the annual fall conference of the Division for Learning Disabilities. Steve Graham, Karen Harris, Margo Mastropieri and Tom Scruggs, Rollanda O’Connor, Susan Osborne, Mitch Yell, and many others will hold workshops on teaching methods and other topics relevant for those who work directly [...]
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In a study that received some national press coverage, Professor Lee Kern and colleagues reported the results of a study designed to assess the benefits of (a) parent education aimed at teaching parents how to tailor behavior management procedures to the needs of individual children with ADHD in comparison to (b) parent education that addressed [...]
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If you live in my neighborhood (Charlottesville, VA, US), you or your child can participate in a project that will allow you to obtain scores from a battery of cognitive tests. My colleauge (and friend), Ron Reeve teaches a course that requires his graduate students to practice giving and interpreting widely used tests of cognitive [...]
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ABC.net—the Australian Broadcasting Corporation—reported that local politicians are discussing the need for additional specialists to help students with Learning Disabilities.
The Opposition’s education spokeswoman, Sue Napier, is calling on the State Government to fund more specialist staff to help school students with learning disabilities.
Ms Napier says a lack of specialists such as speech pathologists in [...]
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What happens when a child with Autism grows up? In "Raising Adam," Charlene Arsenault explores this issue by examining the case of Adam Davis and his family. Ms. Arsenault's article, which appeared in the Worchester Magazine (published by Worcehster State College, MA, US) 09 August 2007, has a good combination ...
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On US National Public Radio's Morning Edition Wednesday 15 August 2007, Larry Abramson provided a glimpse into some current efforts to promote education for students with Autism. He describes progress made by a boy with Autism and effort to disseminate the behaviorally based educational methods that helped him. Here's a ...
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Roy Kerry, the physician who administered a chelation therapy to the child Tariq Nadama shortly before the 5-year-old boy died, surrendered to police 23 August 2007 in Pittsburgh (PA, US). Dr. Kerry was charged with involutary manslaughter and is being sued by the boy's parents. Here is a snippet from ...
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The annual meeting of Teacher Educators for Children with Behavioral Disorders (TECBD), now named after Rob Rutherford who founded it, will be held 15-17 November 2007 in Tempe (AZ, US). Steve Forness, Cheryl George, and John Maag are among the people who'll be speaking this year.
Every year, EBDBlog has ...
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The University of Louisville (KY, US) is advertising a position in Autism. The position is for a clinical child psychologist and it is a faculty position. The person would direct the Kentucky Autism Training Center (KATC) for the College of Education & Human Development, University of Louisville. Check the announcement ...
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Is the frequency of bi-polar disorder increasing among youth and young adults? In an article circulated by Reuters International, the answer appears to be "yes," among younger individuals the chances of coming away from an office visit with the diagnosis of bi-polar disorder increased dramatically in the decade from 1994 ...
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The PACER Center provides valuable resources for parents and families of children and youths with disabilities, including those with EBD. The center, which began as a local non-profit offering assistance in Minneapolis (MN, US), has blossomed over the past 30 years into a valuable national and even international resource.
PACER Center ...
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