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Great Blog: Wake, Woke, Awake, Awoken
Are you a teacher of English, especially at the middle- or high-school level? Here is a great blog on various forms of waking. The site itself (http://dailypost.wordpress.com) has great articles for helping decipher the rules of irregular verbs, containing items often … Continue reading
Family-School-Community Partnerships : Priority Schools Campaign
Take part in the conversation about schools. Schools, after all, are communities within our greater communities, and need full participation of the greater communities to function effectively and efficiently. As a researcher, I can tell you that studies show … Continue reading
Fixing Education: The Finnish Model
While reading through a New York Times Review of Books article that was recommended by Teaching Tolerance, I came across a link to the archived article below. Most educators, I think, have recognized that the USA has been losing ground … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Fixing Education, PostADay
Tagged Education, Education reform, Finland, United States
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Classroom Management–Part 6
Can the Internet, blogging, IMs, Texting, Chats, etc., be used as classroom management techniques? Yes. At least, that’s what I believe. But link to the site below. This post links, in turn, to an item from the Huffington Post (which … Continue reading
Fixing Education: Classroom Management–Part 3
Tiered Guided Practice Many educators intuitively know that students, no matter at what level, need practice in a safe environment. One old technique that aids in the management of classroom activity is Guided Practice–or, using my term, Tiered Guided Practice. … Continue reading
Fixing Education: Classroom Management–Part 2
Today I stumbled across an education management technique from Teaching Tolerance. I had a different topic for classroom management in mind, but I decided to run with this one instead. I believe the technique was borrowed from classroom ice-breaker/management techniques … Continue reading
Fixing Education: Classroom Management–Part 1
One of the biggest deterrents to success in class is how the teacher manages his/her time as well as behavioral issues among the class members. Although all teacher training programs now require that prospective teachers complete a class in classroom management techniques, … Continue reading
Fixing Education: Teaching to the Test
Teaching to the test. We’ve all heard the term. We get a pretty good idea just from that phrase that it involves teachers trying to make certain that their students will learn those skills that will be tested on some … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Fixing Education, PostADay/PostAWeek
Tagged Education, Educational stage, School district, Standardized test, Teacher
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