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ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT WHOLE LANGUAGE? YUP.
Season 6 Episode 4
In viewing online discussion groups and reading various articles related to reading instruction and struggling readers, it is clear that many believe…
5 years, 11 months ago
WRITING SHOULD BE PART OF READING INSTRUCTION
Season 6 Episode 3
After wide reading, writing is probably the next best thing you can use to help struggling readers. You can often hear beginning and emergent readers…
5 years, 11 months ago
THE LIMITATIONS OF STANDARDIZED TESTS FOR DIAGNOSING READING DIFFICULTIES
Season 5 Episode 8
Standardized tests are effective for describing how far students are from a mythical average. They are very ineffective in diagnosing the cause of re…
5 years, 11 months ago
THE SCIENCE, ART, AND CRAFT OF TEACHING - AND EXPERT TEACHERS HAVE FOUR TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE.
Season 6 Episode 2
The teacher is the most significant variable in determining how much learning takes place in any classroom. We must attend to this most significant …
5 years, 11 months ago
SOCIAL COGNITIVE LEARNING THEORY - APPLICATIONS
Season 6 Episode 1
This podcast explains and describes social cognitive learning theory and its applications. Social cognitive learning theory involves observing the b…
5 years, 11 months ago
RESPONDING TO TEXT AND WHY THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS ARE RIDICULOUS
Season 5 Episode 7
This podcast describes efferent and aesthetic responses to text. It explains how we should approach and respond to expository (informational) and nar…
6 years ago
UNDERSTANDING READING FROM A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE
Season 5 Episode 6
This podcast describes how our brain creates meaning with text from a cognitive perspective. The information processing model, sometimes called the s…
6 years ago
HUMANISTIC LEARNING THEORY
Season 5 Episode 5
Psychologists Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are generally thought to be the founders of modern humanistic learning theory (DeCarvalho, 1991). Human…
6 years ago
TEACHER PROFESSIONALISM
Season 5 Episode 5
In this podcast I describe 11 attributes of what I believe to be teacher professionalism. They are based on the perspective I hold as a holistic edu…
6 years ago
EMOTIONS, MOTIVATION, AND READING DISABILITIES
Season 5 Episode 4
Affect in education usually refer to emotions and motivation. Since these do not show up on test scores, to the educational bureaucracy, they do not…
6 years ago