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Sunday, November 16, 2008 9:00 AM

The Lonely Teacher?

Teaching is a lonely job. I am sure that is hard to imagine for those who do not teach and who see teachers interacting with people everyday. While teachers develop excellent interpersonal communication and coping skills, we mostly use them to relate Read More...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:23 AM

Cal High?

As the oldest high school on its original campus in California tries to find its way through the maze of current educational reforms so that it can stay on the top of most “best of” lists and maintain both its API and AYP the answer to too many questions Read More...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:55 PM

Who do you teach for?

Most teachers love teaching. But not all teachers teach for the same reasons. Teaching is a difficult, challenging, time consuming, exhausting, sometimes discouraging, often frustrating, and at the same time wonderful endeavor. Think about whom you are Read More...
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Friday, September 05, 2008 12:17 AM

Individual Support?

I am a parent and a teacher. No, I don’t think you have to be a parent to be a teacher, but sometimes the insight provided by being both a parent and a teacher helps me both parent and teach. It also helps to have a child who is the same age as the children Read More...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:01 AM

Seating Charts?

The seating chart: some teachers love them and use them, others do not. I find them essential. Many teachers seat their students alphabetically (either A-Z or Z-A) in rows. Others use groups of desks, or tables and assign seats after allowing the students Read More...
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Friday, August 01, 2008 11:33 PM

Thoreau's Lessons?

These are my two favorite passage from Henry David Thoreau's Walden: Or Life in the Woods published in 1854. "We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake Read More...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:42 AM

The Apple?

I've been asked to write a series for The Apple website. So for the next few months please look for my essays at http://theapple.com . The series is titled "A Teacher's Transcript." See you there. Read More...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008 11:26 AM

A Working Classroom Teacher?

I subtitle my blog, “A Working Classroom Teacher” because that is what I am, working. Teaching is hard work and those of us who teach work very hard indeed. Sometimes the work is in the planning, sometimes in the instruction, sometimes in the guidance Read More...
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Friday, May 09, 2008 10:30 AM

Settle Down?

“Relax and quietly sit in your seat.” There is nothing more challenging for a teacher than starting class off on the right track. It often feels like trying to change the course of a steam ship with a wooden paddle. But it’s not impossible to start off Read More...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:35 PM

Tell Your Stories?

Kids love it when their teachers share stories about their lives. I’m not exactly sure why, but I can remember being a young student and loving to hear about the experiences of my teachers, the mistakes they made, and the lessons they learned. Taking Read More...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM

For Love of Teaching?

It is generally believed that teachers are supposed to love what they do and sacrifice for their job. We teachers are asked to spend our days educating other people’s children in everything from letters and numbers to Latin and neurons. We wipe noses, Read More...
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:55 PM

Engage?

The single most important element of a successful classroom is a teacher who designs assignments that keep the students engaged in learning. It helps if these assignments are also fun to complete. Disciplines issues including acting out, tardiness to Read More...
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Monday, March 24, 2008 7:31 PM

Spring Fever?

It happens this time every year. No, I’m not talking about the exhausted crash and burn landing into spring break. I am talking about contract renewal time. That time of the year when teachers have to decide, “Do I really want to come back and do this Read More...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:00 AM

Transparency?

Do your students understand your assignments? Do they know exactly how they are evaluated? Is your grading system clear and clean? Are you sick of students asking, “How much is this project worth?” Do you use a rubric for evaluation of student work? Do Read More...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:47 PM

Swing Away?

I teach an advanced production course to high school students. It’s a brutally difficult class, and I don’t try to make it easy for my students. Two groups of ten students each have two weeks or 10 class sessions (less than 10 hours) to create their own Read More...
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