Frumteacher Blog Nominee

I visited the Frumteacher blog because low and behold I was born in March! This blog at a first glance actually looked like all other blogs I've looked at, no interest to me. Then I started to read. Low and behold...It's a history blog! I loved how he started off with current events and then went back to the same place in a different time and talked about the history of it. History tied to current events is a must to keep students involved and entertained. The education world should create more blogs related to current events to link history, liturature, math, and science. I think we get more invloved and go down into that critical thinking if we start an open ended subject that is going on right now and create our own ways to solve the problem. Schools today are so standardized that students don't even think for themselves. They never learn, they never listen, and they aren't interested. Bring the classroom back to life with a little controversy, it gets the mind thinking and invloves all those important analytical skills students are not being taught anymore. Encourage questions, and write blogs about what they think is a good solution to the problems of today. Students aren't achieving high expectations because they are not push and challenged. They are given A,B,C,D assessments. Blogs are a wonderful way to see what your students have truely learned passed the guess and test theory of multiple choice assessments. Blogs can be used for any sujbect, any grade, and skill level. It just takes encouragement and topics students are actually interested in. See, now how hard was that to think up! This blog depicts what a classroom is all about. Using texts, references, and even the oh no! internet to involve a classroom. It has entertaining facts about the present and the past to link the subject together.