May 2008 - Posts
I just came back from a fourth grade performance at the school that I'll be teaching at for the next two years. It was a remarkable show with dancing, singing, expressive speech, drums, instruments, sports, art, and so many other wonderful things that
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Tomorrow is my first job interview at the place that I want to go to the most. Job interviews... very counter-intuitive time of playing my strengths and not focusing on weaknesses. My worry that I won't fully assimilate to the Hong Kong schools, yes,
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I show the students how to write a word in cursive on the board two times before asking them to write it in their colorful wordstudy notebooks. Then the floor begins to shake. The world quakes. Tables displaced. Ceilings and floors cave. Children scream.
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A Student-Taught Perspective on My Philosophy School : While student-teaching, a number of parent-teacher events were hosted that clearly fostered identity development in children. At both multicultural night and the talent show fundraiser , students
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