Tag: teaching
group name: educationat
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January 05, 2007 12:46 PM EST --
Cooperative Learning has always been a controversial issue and led to conflicting views among teachers. While some would swear by their dearest ones that it is by far the best way to involve . . .
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July 18, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
Language is a vivid, crucial part of everyone's identity, and the ability to express oneself through written and verbal language is important. To write is to reflect, to think, to argue, and to discover. . . .
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July 16, 2007 09:34 PM EDT --
One of the most frustrating incidents a teacher can encounter is silence in response to question. The temptation is to repeat the question or elaborate on it, anything to fill the empty air. With adult . . .
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July 12, 2007 04:39 PM EDT --
My excitement and love of Harry Potter allowed me to transform a classroom of underachieving, troubled children into a classroom of encouraged, . . .
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March 10, 2007 01:02 AM EST --
No, I mean, I really lost Amy.
Amy really isn’t up to speed with the rest of the class. She was fine the first day because we didn’t ask her to do anything, but we did have to keep . . .
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October 13, 2007 05:22 PM EDT --
Can you turn a bureaucratic requirement into a communication tool to express
personal ideas and build classroom community? Absolutely.
Taking attendance remains a vital part of our teaching duties. Some . . .
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May 27, 2007 01:35 AM EDT --
I say things to the kids that I know they have slender hope of understanding and they frequently surprise me by not only picking it up, but using it correctly.
When I get absent-minded, I often . . .
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June 01, 2007 08:07 AM EDT --
Here's my problem. Jerry is a bright, outging, affectionate kid who is saddled with an annoying mother who works all the time and a father who apparently also works constantly. From what I'm told, . . .
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June 02, 2007 08:21 AM EDT --
Thursday, we went to Seoul Grand Park. The park is actually split into three sections, near as I can tell. There’s the amusement park with rides and a mini Epcot ball, which costs around $21 a head . . .
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February 21, 2008 01:52 PM EST --
We own so many objects. I just spent the last few days purging my library, cleaning my office, and restoring some empty space to my home office. Where do all these pieces of paper, odd books, extra copies . . .
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March 15, 2008 11:50 PM EDT --
It is my first year teaching, and I am stuck in a very small town. I am split between two schools, teaching three classes at one, driving to the other one, and teaching three more classes. In the morning, . . .
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May 24, 2007 05:18 AM EDT --
I had promised to teach “Geographic Terms” in the weekly update I send to the parents. Big words for teaching 4 year olds mountain, river, lake, field, cave, and woods. I wasn’t especially . . .
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July 14, 2007 08:56 AM EDT --
“An apple for the teacher,”
you smile and sweetly say.
I’m downright suspicious—
it’ll be a long day.
You never do your work,
you always act up in class.
I’ve caught . . .
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December 24, 2007 05:15 PM EST --
Play the free academic English vocabulary building game at www.freerice.com , learn new words, review for standardized tests, and help feed the world's poorest poor. Designed by computerprogrammer . . .
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March 20, 2008 01:50 AM EDT --
Okay, so if you read my last article about Respect, you know that I have been having some issues with students who vandalize my house in "innocent" yet annoying ways.
Well, it happened . . .
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March 10, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
California law says homeschooling parents better listen up or head to prison .
Homeschooling your kids in California? How do you feel about teaching times tables at San Quentin? A state appellate . . .
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May 21, 2007 07:09 AM EDT --
For the past month, much of my time has been consumed with planning for the Mother's Day Show or, as we've been calling it privately, the dog and pony show. The past 2 weeks has been almost nothing . . .
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May 21, 2007 07:44 AM EDT --
Wednesdays I have a tutoring student. This is a pretty new thing. I’ve only done it twice. The student, Anna, does not need me for my exceptional grammar skills, my clear Midwestern accent or my . . .
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April 10, 2007 08:23 AM EDT --
I have to savor these things when they happen. I've been sick lately so I haven't been as Amy focused as I was. I was also letting her swim on her own for a while to see if she would adapt without . . .
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September 05, 2007 09:17 PM EDT --
Weeknight reflections require a certain
amount of peaceful quiet.
Stillness and softness and security abide
in a blocked-out hole in time.
I sit and I write; and while I pause,
truth is captured in the . . .
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