Quick Thoughts
"8th Graders, At this time tomorrow, we'll be done with the first day of the last semester of your middle school career!"34 days ago"Happy to say I was able to get 18 novels and graphic novels for $89 for my classroom today. I picked them from the ALA YA lit lists."128 days ago"At CFISD middle school language arts share session. Teachers are so creative! It *is* difficult to make LA kinesthetic."146 days ago
Tag Archives: responsibility
Of Course Teachers Deserve Respect, Duh!
Or: “What Don’t Teachers Do?” Florida Teacher’s Essay Becomes Rallying Cry for Respect | NEA Today When people were attacking her and her fellow dedicated public school teachers, Florida fourth-grade teacher Jamee Miller got mad. And then she got to … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged article, essay, nea, news, parents, profession, professional, respect, responsibility, teachers
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Teaching What’s Critical
We’ve been given standards to teach, and the “critical” ones are the ones that are assessed state-wide. There are more things that are critical to students’ success than these “critical standards” — a love of learning is one of them. … Continue reading
4 Questions
I really need to look up the strategy of using these four questions to let students get themselves back on task: What are you doing? What are you supposed to be doing? Were/Are you doing it? What are you going … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Management, Education
Tagged behavior, off task, on task, responsibility, strategy
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Teachers and Social Networking with Dual Personas
(edit: six months later, here’s a related article: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com) “He accidentally hit ‘accept as friend’ and realized what he had done and quickly undid it,” one teacher told us … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Technology
Tagged Buzz, Facebook, Google, modeling, privacy, rapport, relationships, reputation, responsibility, search, social networking, students, tech, This Week in Tech, TWiT, Twitter
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Crumbs of my Philosophy of Education
These are small parts of my overall philosophy of education. Very disorganized, not secret, and need a place for me to refer back to them. My top classroom rule (stated positively) is: Always Allow Learning. (negatively: Don’t interrupt/prevent learning) Permutations … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Management, Education
Tagged behavior, expectations, idea, parents, responsibility, rules
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