Teaching

Technology in the Classroom: A Live Chat

March 19, 2012
Technology-in-the-Classroom-Live-Chat | Ciao Mom

The silver lining of being home to recuperate from surgery is that I get to be home…and experiment with what it is going to be like to work from home next year in my new role–whatever that ends up actually looking like.  My home office is coming together (yes, yes, I promise, there will be [...]

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Unearthing the Diamonds in the Rough

February 29, 2012
Diamond in the Rough | Ciao Mom

The Urban Dictionary defines a diamond in the rough as: I have known a great many diamonds in the rough.  Colleagues, friends, family members, and students that I have worked with over the years that for whatever reason, have not unlocked their true potential on the world.  People who with the right nurturing, the right [...]

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Defining High Ability Thinking in Children

February 15, 2012
breaking the mold | Ciao Mom

As a teacher of high ability or gifted students, I work with creative and gifted children all day long. Some children express their gifted potential in their writing, others in the arts, others in the way that they approach math problems, and others still in their verbal expression.  There are others though, who exude creativity [...]

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Watering the Grass

December 7, 2011
Nurturing all the Big & Little Things| Ciao Mom

I attended a professional development workshop this morning called Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties, led by Rich Weinfeld, an educational consultant and expert in the field of working with children that are twice exceptional (aka gifted and with learning difficulties). I have always been an advocate of looking past test scores and perceived deficits when [...]

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Decoding School Supply Lists

August 26, 2011
decoding school supply lists

Principessa is going into first grade which means that with less than one week until we meet her teacher for the very first time, we have acquired quite an assortment of school supplies.  Her list was online, which was a huge help. I printed it, took mental notes, and off we went..armed and dangerous on [...]

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Fieldtrip to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

July 27, 2011
The Discovery Room at the Museum of Natural History

When I was little, my parents took me out of school every so often.  As in, to go on vacation. I am sure that my teachers at the time wrinkled their noses every time they got a letter from my mom saying I would be out of school for a week…but the truth is that [...]

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Graduation alla Pain Killer

May 31, 2011

It was the day I had been waiting for for two years.  The culmination of hard work, endless amounts of reading, group projects that made even the most cooperative of group members want to wring the necks of others.  It was my graduate school graduation, and for better or for worse, I remember none of [...]

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What does it mean to have a Gifted Child?

February 6, 2011

I was going to participate in Sunday’s Stream of Consciousness fun….but I realized that this post…these ideas….they need more than five minutes.  This is real….and the more I think about it, the more upset my stomach gets, the more I can feel my heart rate quicken….. And so…I bring to you….What does it mean to [...]

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Woo Hoo for Wednesday!

February 2, 2011

Today was a busy day….a productive day, a day full of surprises. My first surprise came when I decided, not entirely on a whim, to change the domain name for C.Mom. You might be asking, why on earth would I do that? Well….I have been reading  about blog success lately, branding, consistency…and so forth and [...]

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Practically Imperfect in Every Way

September 21, 2010

2010-09-21 Principessa likes to sing.  All the time. Today she started singing songs from Mary Poppins and so, to assist her in her melodies, I put in the CD from the musical that we saw this summer.  One of the songs is called “Practically Perfect” and as she and I (yes, I admit it, I [...]

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