Re: Inservice ideas

From: Kathy Isaacs (kisaacs@MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 18:23:21 EST

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    I'm a huge fan of Understanding by Design which Ginger Attarian and I used to design
    our unit at the workshop two summers ago, and which we convinced our whole faculty to
    read and discuss last summer. The twin ideas of guiding questions and backward design
    have become part of our everyday vocabulary. What do we want students (or new
    teachers, or participants in our workshop, or whatever) to know and be able to do at
    the end of the experience, course, term etc. is a question asked regularly.
    I would be very interested to see what you come up with in a unit for The Watsons as
    I've become enamored of making LOC connections with historical fiction. Do let us
    know what you come up with, Gail.

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    Kathy Isaacs
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    Gail Desler wrote:

    > ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- > Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@SUN8.LOC.GOV> > Poster: Gail Desler <gailhd@JPS.NET> > Subject: Re: Inservice ideas > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Gigi, > Thank you for the information on the Grant Wiggins book. I'm ordering a copy > today. I'm also looking forward to seeing what ideas other AM fellows have for > using the loc collections for a unit on Martin Luther King. At present I'm > developing a lesson for middle school students to go with the novel The Watsons Go > to Birmingham and would also like to use loc sources. I'll look forward to > following this topic. > > Gail Desler



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