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Scott Habeeb's Blog – May 2010 Archive (3)

A School Counselor uses AFL

This was originally posted on Assessment FOR Learning.

One of the tricks of staff development is finding ways to apply ideas/strategies/concepts to the many different departments and content areas that make up a school. That's one of the goals of this Ning - to document ways to use AFL in many different settings. For example, there has been a PE… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on May 18, 2010 at 9:18am — No Comments

Does your brain lie to you? (6 lessons for students)

Recently I had the opportunity to spend 45 minutes addressing the 10th and 11th grade students at Estill County High School in Irvine, Kentucky. The topic of my address was Does Your Brain Lie to You (and do you believe it)? I thought that some of the ideas from that address might be ideas that teachers could share in their classrooms with students of all ages. While I did this in one day, I would recommend addressing each of the…

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Added by Scott Habeeb on May 16, 2010 at 10:30pm — 6 Comments

Essential Components of a Freshman Transition Program- Part 1 - A Team of Teachers

This series of posts on the essential components of a Freshman Transition Program is based on ideas found in The Ninth Grade Opportunity: Transforming Schools from the Bottom Up by Scott Habeeb, Ray Moore, and… Continue

Added by Scott Habeeb on May 10, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments