Diane Darrow is a third grade teacher at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA. In 2011 she joined the tribe of Apple Distinguished Educators. She constantly entertaining innovative ways mobile devices such as the iPad can improve instruction in our schools. Her teaching training is in Early Childhood (Montessori), and Reading Recovery. Diane also studied gifted education in the University of Connecticut's masters program. She recently received an Online Teaching Certificate through CUE's Leading Edge Certification program. In her spare time she contributes Web reviews for TeachersFirst.com.
Diane lives in a household of creative souls. Her first passion was for painting and drawing. She earned a BFA at Indiana University and then an MFA at the Univ. of Delaware. Her husband, John McNamara is also a painter and teaches in the Art Practice Department at University California, Berkeley. Together they have two teenage sons. The oldest loves to skateboard, and create films. The youngest enjoys spending hours composing songs on his computer. Everyone in her family enjoys creating and sharing their work with the world.
Blog Posts
In 1948, the Swiss inventor George de Mestral returned from a hike with his dog covered in burs. After examining how nature designed these clinging bristles under a microscope, it dawned on him that a similar structure could function as a clothing fastener. The synthesis of his thoughts and...
Read More.The cognitive domain Evaluating focuses on skills necessary to judge the value of ideas, techniques, products, or solutions. Students must evaluate the credibility or functionality of given content with clearly defined criteria and standards.
Read More.When children look under the hood of a car, their perspective is one of pure curiosity. They immediately want to identify the parts, find out the location of major features, start to ask questions about how the various elements work together, and search to understand the organization of the car...
Read More.Bloom's Revised Taxonomy breaks each learning stage (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create) into four separate levels of knowledge. These levels include the factual, conceptual, procedural, and...
Read More.Benjamin Blooms' second stage, "understanding" occurs when new learning connects to prior knowledge. At this point, students have the ability to make sense of what they have read, viewed, or heard and can explain this understanding clearly and succinctly to others. This particular learning stage...
Read More.It is Benjamin Bloom's belief that the entry point to learning is the acquisition of knowledge. He postulates that a solid foundation of terms, facts, theories, and skills is the educational base that will allow...
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