March 2008 - Posts
In the music performance world, we have concert and sight reading competitions. My band will be going to the UIL Concert & Sight Reading contest next week. In preparation for that, I have created a simple handout that I passed out to my band students.
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I found this article that I wrote back in November but never got around to posting on the blog. Do I really want to teach? In my first two years of teaching, not a week went by when I didn’t ask myself that very question. Many people face it every
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I recently got a little $20 voice recorded device for my iPod because I figured it might make good quality recordings of class. I was right. Here’s 25 minutes from this past Friday’s woodwind class for those who want to hear what goes on in
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Wow, it has been over five months since I have done this kind of thing. I’ve written some informal blog updates from time to time, but nothing formalized like this. I have noticed that So You Want To Teach? seems to be entering a new phase of its
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I like my principal. In fact, I like every principal I have worked with and for. I read a news article today that concerns me and makes me glad that I have had great administrators to work for thus far in my career. Then I got home and looked for a few
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Recently, I have come across a number of people writing about rights in the education sense. Some seem to pit parents, teachers, and students all against one another. Some seem to think that parents and students gang up against the poor teachers. Still
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I know some of you have already had spring break, and others haven’t yet had it. Whatever the case, spring actually breaks tomorrow as the Vernal Equinox happens. In honor of the new season, you’ll notice a handful of spring-like pictures.
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Just in time for March Madness Watch this video Read this article Being a Middle-Aged Nerd is No Excuse for Stupid What did you just learn? How can you relate it to classroom management? Also, I want to take this opportunity to draw your attention to
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I know that I have a handful of retired teachers who are active in commenting on my blog. I know that I also have a handful of college students who have left me great questions and comments. What I don’t know is what the average reader or visitor
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In case you haven’t already seen it, this post of teacher misbehavior caught on cell phones from Dangerously Irrelevant has been making the rounds. I saw it on Seth Godin’s blog , of all places. Seth’s assessment is that the teachers
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I have found that People really don’t like As I prepare my bands for the UIL Concert & Sight Reading contest that is now less than a month away, I have noticed that they seem to have a big problem with rests. For the uninitiated, rests in music
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Step right up! The Carnival of Education will once again make a stop at So You Want To Teach? next week. Send in all of your carnival submissions. You can email them to me or use this super easy submission form . Wanna check out previous carnivals hosted
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I recently got an email from Guy Kawasaki , the noted Apple evangelist . He writes: Yesterday we announced a website that is a collection of “single-page aggregations” organized by topics such as Fashion, Celebrities, Sports, Gaming, Macintosh,
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Everyone’s talking about it. It seems that everyone has been talking about it for nearly seven years now. So I thought it would be kind of interesting to see what various bloggers are saying about the “ No Child Left Behind ” Act of
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If you use Twitter, add me . I have been glossing over blog posts about it lately, but never really decided to jump in. As I look at it, it seems much like Facebook and MySpace’s status updates, so I’ll go for it and see what happens. Some
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I have had quite a few sites link to me lately and I have not returned the favor. If you have linked to me at any point, please trust that I will be linking to you within the next three months. I’m telling you, this site will go crazy after the
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about an experience I had where a student left my classroom crying and went to talk with the counselor. Read about it here . Be sure to read the comments below the article also! Since then, I apologized . I also made the commitment
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We have our first of four TAKS test days today. They seem to have increased testing security quite a bit this year over last year. In fact, we are supposed to have some monitors from the state coming to our campus at some point during the day to make
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As we begin the month of March, I want to take a look back a year ago and see where my thoughts and focus were oriented. For me, this is productive as it helps me to see the progress, or more accurately the changes, that have happened over the last year.
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