Our tour of the Republic of Korea has been wonderful. The temples, the foods, and (especially) the people have been quite delightful. Although Pat Lloyd and I have been seeing some sights, I’ve also been meeting with special educators in Changwon, Busan, and Seoul.
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In case you missed the earlier post regarding the series of presentations at the April 2007 meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children, here’s a reminder that you can obtain copies of the passouts for the presentations right here at Teach Effectively!
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In something that I found quite rewarding, Teachers College of Columbia University published a feature article about R. Douglas Greer, a professor whose work I’ve long admired. Why did I find it rewarding? Well, it’s pretty rare that people advocating a behavioral approach to teaching receive much recognition, but Professor Greer’s work richly deserves such commendation.
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I’ve added a copy of the slides for the presentation by Charles Hughes and Donald Deshler to the list of availble documents available on the page covering RTI issues. Please see “RtI Commentaries” in the navigation element under “pages.”
I had the pleasure of hosting a series of important presentations on the currently hot topic of response to intervention at the 20 April meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children in Louisville. I have posted a page providing links for PDFs of many of these presentations. As I can get the others uploaded, I shall post additional entries reminding folks of where to find these papers. If you are reading this page on the Teach Effectively! then you can find a link to the page in in the section of the navigation element headed “Pages.” For a direct link, click here.
Zig Engelmann’s original plan for publishing his recollections of the Follow Through Project called for PDFs of chapters to be available on Zigsite.com for two weeks each. In response to people who learned of their availability too late, he as created “something of a curtain call.” Get ‘em while you can!
Good news for those who discovered too late that Zig Engelmann was publishing a history of his time in education. The chapters were available only briefly (2 weeks each) but Zig’s making the entire product available again briefly.
If you missed downloading any of the earlier chapters of “The Outrage of
Project Follow Through,” Zig is re posting ALL chapters on Monday, March 12
about 8am pacific and will leave them up until Monday, March 19, around 8am
pacific.Bryan
Bryan Wickman,
Executive Director
Association for Direct Instruction
Save the dates. Get it while it’s free. Go to zigsite.com.
Writing in the Washington (DC, US) Times, Paul Greenberg commented about Arkansas’ new governor, Mike Beebe, who objected to schools sending reports to parents about their children’s body mass index. In his column, entitled “Self-Esteem to the Extreme,” Mr. Greenberg used Mr. Beebe’s expression of concern about harming children’s self-esteem as the launching pad for deriding the idea of promoting self-esteem.
Remember self-esteem? It was one of the sillier — and more dangerous — fads in educational circles, which keep going round and round. The theory was that promoting kids’ self-esteem would convince them they were great. And it just might. But that’s no guarantee they are great.
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