CLIL - Teaching Models, Strategies & Ideas - Modelos, Estrategias e Ideas para AICLE

Two topics we've been hearing a lot about recently are reading (especially how the common core will change its instruction) and social/emotional learning (which many teachers believe can boost achievement--and which the common core does not touch).

Savoy Elementary isn't trying to turn these students into great artists; ultimately, they're trying to get them to improve their math and reading.

Cooperative learning is a highly structured educational model where each member is not only responsible for learning an individual concept, but also for educating other group members about it.

How can teachers get students to want to learn? Here is an article about the issue, from veteran educator Larry Ferlazzo, adapted from his new book, Self-Driven Learning: Teaching Strategies For Student Motivation.

In part three of 'How to Choose a Great School,' Peg Tyre shares what kids should be learning in preschool and elementary school. A few years ago, there was a late-night infomercial advertising a method of teaching reading to babies.

Adults forget all that they do while reading. We are predicting, making connections, contextualizing, critiquing, and already plotting how we might use any new insights or information. Yep, we do all that when we read.

Thirty kindergarten students banged their hands on drums and danced through their reading lessons Wednesday morning at McEver Arts Academy in Gainesville.

"It's a monumental shift, bigger than any shift I've experienced in my 28 years in education," said Karen Beerer, a teacher who runs Discovery Education's Common Core Academies for educators.

Some see us as education's odd couple -- one, the president of a democratic teachers' union; the other, a director at the world's largest philanthropy.