February 2008 - Posts
So this week has been my 25% week, where I teach or lead the kids for a quarter of the day. Next week is 50%. Then 75%. Then 2 weeks of 100%. Today, I taught a number corner lesson (Bridges Curriculum) which went pretty well. Students understood my expectations,
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The difference between when I last posted and now with this post is that I have now taught a handful of lessons. I really wonder how I am supposed to pick up the skills to teach full-time (in just THREE weeks) when I can't even control the class during
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I should make this a series: so many lessons not only on becoming a teacher, but in parenting; shaping kids to become socially responsible (and adept). The other day at lunch, I learned how to parent one boy, J, who is extremely overweight, has diabetes
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Today we administered the math portion of the Benchmark Test for our students. There is one student who is clearly an artist: not the most perceptive of his surroundings and so "in his head" that you don't know what, why or how he ends up wandering the
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In statistics we learned that correlation does not equal causation. But I beg to differ. When released, children never cease to run (like their lives depend on it) to the playground. *** Another observation: students (in elementary school, at least) always
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I'm noticing more and more how teaching is a life of service. Not just in the abstract wanting-to-give-kids-knowledge or the inspiring-kids-to-succeed aspects, but also in the nitty-gritty battles of classroom management and parent-like reprimanding/nurturing
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We're doing a literacy unit with photography, and want students to capture writable moments with photographs. To prepare students, we had them make four lists that would get them thinking about the things that do and do not mean a lot to them. When we
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