February 2008 - Posts
OK, so maybe you recognize my post title as a ripoff of an Oscar-nominated movie. I'm going to write about a topic that ticks me off a bit, so I was tempted to use the title There Will Be Blood... You know, I'm pretty proud of myself because I can set
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Today when I took my kids to the cafeteria for lunch, one of the teacher's aides was already in there screaming at the kids to be quiet. This is sadly the norm for our cafeteria, and for that teacher's aide in particular. As I entered the cafeteria myself,
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This week's Mr. Teacher column over on education.com is all about lesson plans. You know what I'm talking about. If you work in my district, you can relate to the excess paperwork that we're dealing with here. If you work in another district, you might
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Not that I watch them or anything, but I did hear rumors that the Academy Awards were on Sunday night. As usual, I've hardly seen any of the movies up for Best Picture award, so the presentations really just don't mean that much to me. But, I thought
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Hey everyone, Tomorrow is my birthday, so I thought I might make a couple of birthday wishes. 1) That everyone who reads this might go to Amazon.com and order a copy (or 5) of my book, Learn Me Good! 2) Barring that, that everyone might at least go to
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During one of the recent episodes of Lost (like my favorite show in the history of ever), they flashed a promo up for going online and posting a video with your theory of what the heck is going on in the show. So of course I jumped at that, posted my
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This week's topic of the Mr. Teacher column over on education.com is related to one of our early science projects that we do every year. In studying plants and seeds, we try to observe how seeds sprout. Notice I say "try" because my seeds never seem to
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Good evening everyone, as you might gather from the title of this post, I am not too enamored with a test I took today after school. Actually, I am currently exhibiting extreme self-control not to express exactly how ticked off I am at this test. Here
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Last week, there were some very interesting developments with some of my most difficult students. First, one of the boys who has gotten under my skin since day one, I'll just call him A, withdrew on Friday, so he will not be back next week. I know this
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A few observations from the Valentine's Day party at school today: A couple of kids who did not bring ANYTHING for anybody else sat at their desks and shouted, "I didn't get one of those yet!" at the kids who DID bring things for everybody. A couple of
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This week's Mr. Teacher column on education.com is all about integrating sports into the classroom. I'm not talking about handing out hockey equipment and asking the kids to high stick each other, but rather attempts to tailor lesson plans to fit sports
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Monday, Monday -- can't trust that day. But now there is something you can trust... INTERACTIVE MONDAY!!! Thanks to everyone who has been participating. And unlike the television show Lost, you can jump right into this one even if you're new! Here's this
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A story in the Dallas Morning News warns that it may very soon be illegal and fineable to use a cell phone for calls or texting in a DISD school zone. Yeah, that's all well and good to make that announcement, but what I really want to know is -- who exactly
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Howdy folks, It's been a REALLY long week, so I'm finally getting around to some housecleaning. Of course, I don't mean that in the literal sense, as my house looks like a wild pack of warthogs has been using it as a base camp. But seeing as how I completely
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This week's Mr. Teacher column over on education.com is all about my school's recent decision to move breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom. We've been doing it for a couple of months now, and overall, I'd say the response has been tepid at best.
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I have a boy in my class whose mother is deaf. Lately, he's been uncharacteristically mischevious (to put it nicely), so we've been trying to set up a conference with his mother. Of course, we need to have an interpreter to help us communicate with her.
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Greetings everyone! I'm getting an early start on Monday's post, which is the second in my INTERACTIVE MONDAY series. Thanks to everyone who participated last week. We all learned a lot about what our fellow teachers really enjoy teaching. This week,
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