"Tools for Teaching: How to Transform Direct Instruction"

Edutopia: Rebecca Alber's Blog really breaks down what we all go through during our summer months. How do we make our units more student-driven instead of teacher-driven. I have always tried to build lessons and units that use a combination of student and teacher activities in order to keep that "discovery" up to my students. Using the thoughts from Alber's Blog I can better see how to extend my student activities. I also really liked the idea of not introducing the topic right a way, but have the students experience it first and "play" with it, then introduce what they were experiencing.