Subscribers,
The following message is posted at the request of Barb Garner, editor of 
Focus On Basics.
Donna



>Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 16:27:24 -0500 (CDT)

>From: Barbara Garner <b.garner4 at verizon.net>

>Subject: New FOB on the Web

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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