April 2012
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What's Up With "Its" and "It's"?
theyuniversity:
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“There’s only one God, ma’am.
And I’m pretty sure He doesn’t dress like that.”
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Captain America of The Avengers
(via darkvelveteyes)
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“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning...”
– Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (via libraryland)
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“I know many great teachers who would rather eat a treat than tweet and I don’t...”
– Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher (via coolcatteacher)
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A Faster, More Efficient Way to Grade Papers →
The author proposing this idea points out how rubrics have expedited the grading process for many faculty and also clarified expectations for students, but when the paper is returned, the student gets the rubric with a check next to quality level attained and maybe a few brief remarks squeezed into a small space provided for comments. What this assumes is that students will look at their paper...
Whenever a student asks a painfully obvious...
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Whenever I see one of my students outside of...
icantteachthis:
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Teaching “Content” →
How do you develop your “content” in your teacher trainees?
Good question.
1. Developing an expertise in what you teach (often called “content knowledge” in our little word), and in how to get kids to learn that subject (“pedagogical content knowledge”), is a lifetime’s work.
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CA great collection of classroom management... →
ameliaepp:
I like to visit this blog, smartclassroommanagement, from time to time, as the author provides some really helpful strategies for classroom management. He seems to take a very respectful and thoughtful approach to relating to students, which I appreciate. This particular post is his ‘best of’ classroom management strategies from 2011 and it’s a great list of links. I find that the...
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How Finnish Schools Shine
teachersworldwide:
Teachers are respected, exams are shunned and league tables simply don’t exist – but if the Finnish system is so good why is it so hard to emulate? (via Guardian TeacherNetwork blog).
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“I predict the common-core standards will fail, unless we can do massive...”
– Concern Abounds Over Teachers’ Preparedness for Standards (via gjmueller)
Why Teachers Should Try Out Tumblr →
teachingtotransform:
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In terms of classroom application, Tumblr would be a good way for you to share research for projects and assignments. Your students could then follow your Tumblr site and ‘reblog’ items into their personal site.
Or you could have students create multimedia (photos, videos, etc.) and post them onto their Tumblr. Then you could see how many views, likes, and...
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Novice Teacher: Jedi Behavior Management Mind... →
novicephoenix:
The other day I was watching an expert teacher dealing with a student that was misbehaving. What she did was so simple but so fascinating to me, she used probably 6 different voice tones in order to pacify the student, and it worked like Jedi magic (I work in a middle school ps).
The student was…
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World Book Night has been and gone. So, what are...
Game of Thrones
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Miss D's English and Literacy Blog: Fitness. →
englishteacheronline:
I normally keep this blog for just education related stuff, but I’m following the #Fit Teacher tag, so sorry for the interruption!
I’ve downloaded ‘My Fitness Pal’ and I think I’ve stopped hurting enough from Sunday to go back to the gym.
Having never done much exercise before, last December-…
I also have the ‘My Fitness Pal’ app - very good and...
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