The following message is posted at the request of Barb Garner, Editor of 
"Focus on Basics":

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The newest Focus On Basics, on learners' Experiences, is now available on 
NCSALL's web site, www.ncsall.net.
Quick, tell me about your students' self esteem. Low, because of their 
academic struggles? That's not what a recent NCSALL-Rutgers study showed.

And how about reading? Do your learners know that to increase their reading 
fluency, they need to...read? What kind of and how much reading do they do 
outside of class? Another NCSALL-Rutgers study follows three learners as 
they go about their days and finds quite a variety in the amount of reading 
the learners do on their own.

Teachers, have you ever seen yourself teach? Or noticed just what that 
clump of students was doing while you were engaged with one person on 
another side of the classroom? Teachers working with NCSALL-Rutgers found 
that videos taken of their classroom for research purposes provided them 
with rich information useful to their own professional development. Learn 
how useful video can be in helping pinpoint issues and suggest new ways of 
doing things in the classroom.

There's lots more, particularly around learner engagement.
Go to www.ncsall.net and click on "Newest Issue of Focus on Basics"
Printed copies and a text-only web version will not be out for another two 
weeks.

Regards,
Barb Garner, Editor

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