A First Freedom Project Seminar:
Federal Laws Protecting Religious Freedom
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
9:00 a.m. – noon
DOJ Office of Justice Programs Conference Center
Washington, D.C.
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Getting to “Got It!”
Getting to “Got It!” – Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn is a practical, easy to read book written by a CEAI member, Dr. Betty K. Garner, and published by ASCD (Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development). It is based on 20 years of research with students who struggled in school. Vivid stories illustrate how teachers can help students learn how to learn. Instead of focusing on learning difficulties, Dr Garner offers insights, information, and practical suggestions on how to help students develop the basic cognitive structures they need to gather, organize, and process information. Because these mental operations are so basic, teachers often assume students can make connections, find patterns, formulate predictable rules and abstract generalizable principles to make sense of the content presented in class. Without these cognitive structures, nothing makes sense because students perceive information as disconnected bits of data. The ensuing confusion leads to frustration, attention deficit, lack of motivation, and inappropriate behaviors. By addressing the causes of these concerns and the resulting learning difficulties, teachers help students become reflectively aware and develop their own cognitive structures so they can learn, create and change. The final chapter discusses the spiritual dimensions of learning with emphasis on the importance of personal integrity and the need to educate the whole person --body, soul and spirit. Books are available for $23.95 at www.ascd.org or calling 800-933-2723.
A Great Resource and
Some Creative Ideas that Work
By Tom Baughman, CEAI Educator
RESOURCE:
Title: Family Faith Treasury – A Year of Inspirational Stories
160 pages 7 ¾” x 10 ¾” Ages 4-8 *However, it could easily be placed in any elementary classroom. I’ll be offering it to my ten year-old fourth graders.
Share a year’s worth of Bible tales, fables, poems, and more – perfect for parents and children to read together!
Hardcover - $10.95
Once again, a great job by The American Bible Society. I ordered three copies of it yesterday. I can’t wait to make them available to my students. For more information, contact Scholastic at 1-800-SCHOLASTIC.
IDEAS:
1. The entire fourth grade at my school is participating in World Vision’s Got Goat? Program. Students and parents’ are donating money toward this cause instead of exchanging Christmas presents. It’s great to see public school families get excited about working with World Vision and supplying families in need with a much-needed goat. By the way, our contributions are almost off of the chart, and we still have over twenty days to collect donations. Awesome!
2. Recently, our fourth graders won a contest for collecting the most Box Tops for Education in the school. The teachers were to select their prize. I suggested that the students watch The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe in our multi-purpose room. My fourth grade colleagues agreed. Therefore, we will be viewing it with popcorn and soda this Thursday. Our local Chick-fil-A will also be providing a special snack. What a great reward! The students are pumped up about Narnia at our school. Plus, this is a great time to promote Narnia. Prince Caspian is scheduled to hit the big screen this spring. I know my students will be chomping at the bit to see it.
Project Ignition
Sponsored by State Farm
Tell us in your own words. (Or music, or art, or celebration…)
Sponsored by State Farm® and coordinated by the National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC), Project Ignition is back, once again giving students, grades 9-12, and their teachers the chance to work together to address the issue of teen driver safety – how it affects you, your community and the world around you. How you choose to communicate your message is completely your call.
Application Deadline May 16, 2008
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2008 Giant Step Award
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, and School Library Journal have developed the annual Giant Step Award to recognize school and public libraries that have made significant improvement or created new initiatives in programs and services that greatly impact student learning and development, or enrich services both in the school and in the community. We are looking for programs that, over the past three years, have made a real difference in their institution.
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