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Newby writes: I have noticed lately in a couple of your posts you mentioned how terrible your first couple of years of teaching were. As a new reader, I have gone back into your archived information to learn more about this blog but have not come across
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On Sunday, we looked back at some of The Loneliest Articles of 2007 , today, we’ll go to the other extreme and look at the busiest articles of 2007. These are the articles that generated the most comments. I’ve gone through the articles and found those
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In the Christmas break, I am looking back at this blog’s growth and development. I began writing a little bit for the blog in February, but didn’t officially launch it for real until June. Since that time, growth has been pretty consistent. I now seem
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Time is a commodity where everyone is equal. But some people seem to do a whole lot more with their time and others seem to do a whole lot less. But we all stay busy. The problem is that some people choose how to fill their lives and other people allow
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We now have our Desk and Desktop under control. But how do we keep them under control? Better yet, how do we keep from having too much stuff coming into our lives that we allow to become clutter? Email Inbox Something that many teachers can’t seem to
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Yesterday, we began decluttering our desk. Today, we will declutter our desktop. One of the things that drives me crazy is when I install a new program and it leaves all sorts of icons on my desktop. It also drives me crazy when I have all sorts of popup
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I have written about having a clear desk before in passing, but here is a little bit about why to do it as well as how to do it. This is a real picture of my half of the office at work. Imagine coming to work each morning and having a nice, calm, clear
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This is perhaps my most favorite tip of them all! I haven’t regularly watched television since I was in 11th grade, but I have watched quite a bit of it. When I read “The 4-Hour Workweek,” Timothy Ferriss suggests a low-information diet. His theory is
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I used to wake up every morning about an hour before I wanted to be at school. I try to get there by 7:20, so that meant waking up around 6:20. That resulted in an extremely rushed morning. Plus the traffic at my new school is way heavier than the traffic
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We put a sign up a few places around the band hall on Wednesday. It says: EVERYONE NEEDS AN ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
Choose Your Attitude I decided that I needed to take that advice myself. So I am going to adjust my attitude.
I was reminded yesterday just
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This is the fifth in a series of articles entitled 5 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers.
Community Proecdures
How do you interact with your community? I know for many teachers, this is a frightening proposition. Reading some things that other teachers
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This is the fourth in a series of articles entitled 5 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers.
Personal Procedures
What are some of the personal habits that are important to me? As I’m sitting here in the middle of the summer writing this, I realize that
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This is the third in a series of articles entitled 5 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers.
Relationship Procedures
in teaching, as in most any businesses — and life in general — relationships will either make you successful, or else make you fail. Our
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This is the second in a series of articles entitled 5 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers.
Classroom Procedures
The procedures that you lay out in the classroom are the most outwardly evident procedures that you have in place. For this reason, they are
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This is the first in a series of articles entitled 5 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers.
Communication Procedures
Without question, one of the most essential elements of any good relationship is clear and open communication. As a teacher, practically
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