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Integrating Arts Education

February 15th, 2011 | posted by crazycatgirl
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My school was involved in a three-year collaboration with a local, Seattle museum. We, the teachers, learned about and taught a program called VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies), a K-5 program that uses fine art images of growing complexity that encourage our youngest learners to describe what they see.

Reading Chant: Teaching Fluency, Accuracy, Expression and Phrasing

October 14th, 2009 | posted by crazycatgirl
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As a teacher of English Language Learners, I have found the use of chants or songs that use and define academic vocabulary to be the best means of teaching language and content.  Perhaps because so often, especially among K-3 students, the kids LOVE to sing the songs again and again. 

Last year, I had a favorite writing chant, which I used every day, and now thanks to my bilingual coach I have a great reading chant to share with you all!  (She gave me permission to post it.)  She even typed up a great series of lessons to teach the chant, vocabulary and content.  I'll post these soon too under lesson plans!

What's your experience with collaborative teaching?

June 9th, 2009 | posted by crazycatgirl
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I have been an ELL or ELD (English Language Development) teacher at an elementary school for two years. Next year will be my third year teaching and I will be part of a pilot for my district in the collaborative teaching model, or co-teaching model, for serving bilingual students.

I am curious what other ElEdBlogers have to say about the collaboration model. I'd love to hear from you St. Paul folks who are considered the experts.

Our district's bilingual department all traveled to St. Paul to learn about the collaborative model/bilingual services there. We are using St. Paul Public Schools as our model for effective bilingual services.

I'll have a training with classroom teachers this summer and then we get started!

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