Some of my favorite children quotes

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher


You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.  ~Franklin P. Jones


In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?"  And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.  ~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com

To my colleagues

Unfortunately some of our time together has come to an end. I have really enjoyed working with you all and I hope that we will cross paths again.  All of you have touched and inspired me in some way.  Words can't truly express how I feel about you.  I have really your company and I wish you all success in your future endeavours.

Testing for intelligence

Children learn and process information in different ways. Therefore, I believe that they should be assessed in different ways. In my school we use the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. We administer the Mississippi Curriculmn Achievement Test 2 (MCT2), which is desgined to determine whether state standards are being met and measure school achievement. However this is just one way of testing (pencil and paper). In the educational field, we always talk about how to promote learining has to be implemented using different learning styles.  If learning has to be implemented using different learning styles, why can't students be assessed using more than one test? Formative assessment is not considered a common concept in the German literature. They have more general descriptors which result in more data. There is also usage of several German journals that publish emperical studies in the educational field.

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