What's your experience with HOT?

*Share HOT questions you have used in your classes.

*Have a lesson you plan to teach but can't think of a HOT question to integrate? Let us help you!

Vacuum-Splat

-What challenges did you encounter teaching any aspects of vacuum-splat?

-How did you adapt vacuum-splat to your students?

-What went well?

-Are there other ways you found were helpful in teaching your students how to really understand a question or to write a constructed response?

Remember vacuum-splat is not THE way to teach writing. It is A way. If you don't have any other way, give it a try. If you have your own way that gets the same results keep on at it!

February's LT Assignment

-Find an on-line resource to use in an upcoming unit, or that you have used in the past. Post it. Briefly explain how you used or plan to use the resource and list the GLEs it supports. When posting give it a title that matches the topic or unit.

Test Question Resources

US History: http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/core/questions/topics.cfm?course=USHG

World History and Geography: http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/global/global.cfm

Bloom's

http://www.llcc.edu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=%2F0BA4qlDaAE%3D&tabid=3938

Diane Ravitch: December's LT: Response requested

I wanted to have a discussion about whether public education should be a right or privilege, but I came across this article in the process. Ravitch raises some good questions:

-If unions are the problem in public education then why not look to the South where unions do not dominate, their scores are low, whereas the highest scores are among the states with the strongest unions.

So your task for this article:

-Select an excerpt and write a response. As in previous posts, there may be NO duplicate excerpts chosen.

http://www.peoplesworld.org/diane-ravitch-public-education-in-danger/

Social Studies Standards and National Organizations

GREAT Website!

http://www.intime.uni.edu/model/content/soci.html