Archive for Alicia Ryman
Class Shout Out!
Happy Monday of Fall Break, I just wanted to do a quick shout out, because I forgot to on Friday! I think we had an impactful and deep conversation during Friday’s TLC class and I want to thank everyone for listening and sharing ideas and experiences! We brought up many issues that will be impacting […]
Immigration and Ellis Island Teaching Ideas
Hello All, Today we talked about immigration and Ellis Island. Although we thought of many good ideas of lesson plans we could teach to our students on this topic, I wanted to go on-line and find more. I found a virtual tour of Ellis Island on Scholastic.com, which allows students to virtually go through each […]
Bullying :(
While I was watching the news this evening, this story came up about cyberbullying. On September 9th, a young girl (middle school aged) jumped to her death from an abandoned concrete plant after being bullied continuously both on-line and at school. This news story reiterates the fact of how important it is for us, as […]
Standardized Testing Popularity
Earlier today in class we talked about Education Minnesota. This motivated me to go on-line to read their newsletter for the month of October, and I found many different interesting articles. One article I found (attached below) discussed the popularity of standardized testing in America and how parents are uneducated about the core curriculum/state standards. […]