Kathie Nunley's Educator's Newsletter
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dr Kathie Nunley's Educator's Newsletter
---mid-January 2012 Edition--- (current subscribers: 15,070)
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News and updates to Kathie Nunley's Layered Curriculum® Sites for Educators:
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http://brains.org
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--------SECTION ONE: TEACHING TIPS ------
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TEACHER TIP # 1: Use a pocket pencil tree in the front of the room.
come in and return it on their way out. Easy way to take roll too.
Misty Koeppen, Kuna, ID
TEACHER TIP #2: Ask parents who travel for business to donate their
unopened hotel soaps for the classroom sink.
Send your favorite teaching tip to me at Kathie@brains.org
Watch for more tips via Twitter: http://twitter.com/
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------SECTION TWO: HOT TOPICS in Neuro & Educational Psychology------
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HOT TOPIC # 1: Is ADHD over-diagnosis? Possibly. Is there a gender
bias in the diagnosing? Apparently so, according to new research released
this month. Researchers sent made-up case descriptions to over 1,000
child psychologists and therapist for diagnosing. Some had missing
key diagnostic criteria and other varied only in the gender of the child being
described. The professionals mis-diagnosed ADHD in16% of the cases,
but more disturbing is that they diagnosed ADHD in boys twice as often as
in girls - even when the descriptions were identical.
Bruchmüller, K. (2012). Is ADHD diagnosed in accord with diagnostic
criteria? Overdiagnosis and influence of client gender on diagnosis.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol 80(1), 128-138.
HOT TOPIC #2: Watching online videos and media multi-tasking is strongly
associated with negative social well-being among 8 - 12 year old girls.
Researchers studied how interpersonal media use such as emailing, texting,
posting on social media sites as well as non-interpersoanl media use (video
watching, music, etc) affected pre-adolescent girls. All types of media use
correlated with more negative social well being - though the video watching was
strongest. Face-to-face social interaction, however was associated with positive
social well-being. Pea, R. (2010) Media use, face-to-face communication,
media multitasking, and social well-being among 8- to 12-year-old girls.
Developmental Psychology, Jan 23.
More Hot Topics at the webstie: http://brains.org
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---SECTION THREE: WEB UPDATES ---
BRAINS.ORG & HELP4TEACHERS.COM
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I've written a new article entitled "Layered Curriculum® - In a nutshell".
It is posted at the website: http://help4teachers.com/
I've also spent some time now organizing the articles at both sites. It
had become a bit of a "messy closet" so I was happy to get it cleaned up.
You can now easily read from one series to the next:
http://brains.org/articles.htm
or
http://help4teachers.com/
Several Brains.org books are now available in electronic format, including
sections of the Layered Curriculum® text.
http://brains.org/store/index.
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------SECTION FOUR: KATHIE'S EMAIL
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From our FaceBook Page, Carrie Lyn Asks:
I am trying to understand the idea of LC... It kind of seems to me that it uses
Blooms levels and have students choose from multiple projects that will
meet the objectives? Can you elaborate?
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Carrie -
It's a mixture of 3 concepts -
1. Listing the learning objectives and offering choice for how the students learn them.
2. Holding students accountable by grading against the objective (points for learning not doing)
3. Encouraging higher level learning by moving everyone from the concrete through critical thinking.
Details are at the Help4Teachers.com website.
--Kathie
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------SECTION FIVE: WORKSHOPS / SCHEDULE / MISC CHAT------
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As we pass mid-January, we continue to have an unusually warm winter
here in New England. After a chilly sub-zero weekend, we are back in
the 40's today. Hard to believe it is January.
Many of you know I'm a sports fan, so I'm sure you expect me to gloat a
little on our New England Patriots....well, yes, I'm excited. You know where
I'll be on February 5th! (In front of the TV, not in Indianapolis)
In the meantime though, I'm heading down to NYC next week for an
afternoon session "Differentiating the High School Classroom and
Layered Curriculum" in the Bronx. From there I'll go back to
Toronto to do some Train-the-Trainer work with the Toronto District
School Board and I'll finish out the month in Ohio with the teachers in
Millersburg.
I still have a few openings on my spring 2012 calendar for workshops and my
fall 2012 calendar is now open. So, if you are looking to host a Layered
Curriculum® workshop, just let me know.
As always, my best to you and yours,
Kathie
Dr Kathie F Nunley
Layered Curriculum® . . . because every child deserves a special education (tm)
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