On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > See Bill Kerr's blog. Link, please, here and in the Wiki. > He talks of creating an environment where students > know they can demand the whiteboard markers from him at any time and work > things out at the front of the class and how this took weeks. Good. See the Ethiopia Report on the Academic Papers Wiki page. > He quotes Konrad Glogowski who gets students to select music tracks to go > with their literature study, Bill says "Can this be duplicated at another > School site, through an education plan or an assessment rubric? No"</blockquote><div> </div></div>I am writing a series on my blog about establishing meta dialogues with students in the teaching of basic knowledge about fractions meta-dialogues are hard to establish <a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/05/meta-dialogues-are-hard-to-establish.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/05/meta-dialogues-are-hard-to-establish.html</a> initiating a meta-dialogue <a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/05/initiating-meta-dialogue.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/05/initiating-meta-dialogue.html</a> fractions in real life <a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/05/fractions-in-real-life.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/05/fractions-in-real-life.html</a> redefining power relationships in the classroom <a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/06/redefining-power-relationships-in_15.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/06/redefining-power-relationships-in_15.html</a> The Konrad Glogowski article is here: <a href="http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2008/06/02/avoid-school-talk-part-1/">http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2008/06/02/avoid-school-talk-part-1/</a> and my short blog linking to Konrad's article is: <a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-top-down-planning-fails.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-top-down-planning-fails.html</a> ( there are other earlier articles by Konrad G on the factors involved in students improving their writing - taking ownership of the process - I probably should dig them up again)