December 2008 - Posts
I have a lot of reservations about the now-popular mandate for teachers to teach "bell to bell". I think it is in line with the idea that, unless that teacher is constantly working to get the little darlings to learn, that teacher is being paid for doing
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This professor seems to think - not. He is an English professor at a local, non-selective college, who teaches the introductory classes. In those classes, students, for perhaps the first time in their lives, have to construct papers that rise to the level
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Several commenters on my last Foldables post asked about using them with younger students. My only experience with younger children is with my children and grandchildren. However, I would use pre-printed Foldables, including words and/or pictures, that
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I found a provocative post in The Core Knowledge Blog , regarding the current fashion in education of "facilitating" acquisition of knowledge, versus the old way of "teaching" subject matter. As it happens, I've had some training in the so-called "modeling"
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This is one that is currently being debated at my school. We're wrestling with the idea that a teacher can flourish in a toxic environment (one that has deteriorating physical environment, inadequate supplies, poor communications, adversarial relationships
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Check out the link to some very good advice from Teachhub, who explains why staying out of the Teachers' Lounge is a good idea. There's also a link to an older post on the Fired for Facebook teachers. Blogging, in general, is endangered , at least when
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I've been playing around with Foldables this year. Today, I decided to design my own Foldable, for an activity that my students struggle with - Balancing an Equation. It's not finished yet, but I've got the basic structure (a Layered Book), and it's just
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I just talked my husband into going shopping this afternoon - well, it's not that difficult - he LOVES to shop. Yeah, I know, that's really unusual for a man. Did I mention that he also loves cooking, and is great at cleaning, laundry, and organizing?
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There's a hot topic in education today. Everyone wants our students to graduate with what are termed "21st Century Skills" - that skill set that will, supposedly, make our young people employable in a global economy. Here's a link to the report . Here's
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Well, there's actually almost a month & 1/2, but, you know how the Christmas season is - lots of wandering minds, illnesses - theirs and mine - and interruptions from holiday events. So, I've been working hard on updating my grades, organizing my
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