Sandy Farrar's Profile

"Compliance is a terrible indicator of success," he says, adding an authoritarian stance at home or at school is a doomed policy. "Zero-tolerance? Are you insane?"

To the historians, critical thinking didn’t mean assembling facts and passing judgment; it meant determining what questions to ask in order to generate new knowledge.

One
such distinction can be made between needs assessment and its similar sounding
counter-part needs analysis. According to Kaufman (1985), "needs assessments
involve identifying and justifying gaps in results, and placing the gaps
in prioritized order for attention" (p. 21). Subsequently, a needs analysis
"provides a fine grained determination of where a need is coming from, and
provides clues to how the need may be reduced or eliminated" (Kaufman, 1985,
p. 21).

I make these several times a week for clients. What works best for me is to cook the potatoes in cold water just until it boils. Let them sit in the hot water for a while, then rinse in cold water. Chill over night. Cut the next day, toss with EVOO, salt, pepper, rosemary, garlic. Roast at around 350, tossing occasionally until brown and crusty. They are always very soft and squishy inside from the boiling. Delish!

When students
over-practice procedures before they understand them, they have more difficulty
making sense of them later; however, they can learn new concepts and skills while they are solving problems.

Roschelle,
Pea, Hoadley, Gordin, & Means (2000) identify four fundamental
characteristics of how technology can enhance both what and how children learn
in the classroom: (1) active engagement, (2) participation in groups, (3)
frequent interaction and feedback, and (4) connections to real-world contexts.