7 Questions to Ask When Evaluating an Intervention Approach

When choosing a program or service provider for your child, here are some questions you can ask to see if it will be a good fit for your family.

How to close the achievement gap for students with disabilities

Adopting higher expectations for students with disabilities is a key way to help close the achievement gap, special-education teacher Elizabeth Stein writes in this blog post. Stein provides a list of strategies for closing the achievement gap, including developing meaningful individualized education programs for students and increasing the use of differentiated learning practices in the classroom. MiddleWeb/Two Teachers in a Room blog (4/3)  http://www.middleweb.com/6865/closing-the-disabilities-gap/

 

What if schools used an "abundance model" to meet students' needs?

The pressures of standardized testing has led some schools to adopt what Rebecca Alber, Edutopia's consulting online editor, calls the "deficit model." In this blog post, she encourages educators to abandon that model and instead embrace the "abundance model," in which schools address the needs of the whole child. To help students foster their talents and skills, she suggests having students set goals, share the skills they know well, understand how they learn best and engage in self-reflection. Edutopia.org/Rebecca Alber's blog (4/2) http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-tool-ditching-deficit-model-rebecca-alber