Carnival of Education

A few highlights from this week’s Carnival, which also includes this post from TEN on interdisciplinary learning.

Lead from the Start shares a study that proves preschoolers do much better on motor skills tasks when they talk to themselves.

Andrea muses on the mixed messages we give kids:

We want you to resist peer pressure and think for yourself. We want you to believe everything we tell you about what are good values.
We want you to be a good team member. Don’t even think of asking the student next to you how they solved the problem; you do your own work.
Be responsible. Only do what we tell you to.
We want you to be compassionate and look out for each other. We want you to turn in your peers to the authorities when they are troubled.
Cooperation is the key to success. There can only be one winner, so you have to beat everyone else.

History is Elementary demands that her fellow content-area teachers “roll up our sleeves and provide more opportunities for students to have more varied literacy experiences and more practice with various reading strategies, so they will not be ‘left behind.’”

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