Reflections on Teaching

I always find Doug Noon’s writing a delight to read. Here he is on Doubters, believers and others.
Tom Turner talks about what he looks for in teacher communities
Stop blogging? But I just started!
Educating the immigant child on Rick Schreiber’s blog. For those who didn’t have to read Igoa’s book on the Inner Life of the Immigrant Child, [...]

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First, Scott McLeod from Dangerously Irrelevent has a post on engagement of male students based on a Witchita newspaper report (which is very nicely written). Then, my dh (dearest husband), sent me a link to a CNN article on extending school day. If you go halfway down, there is an interesting section which talks about [...]

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Send me a comment if you would like to play in Diigo, to test it out.

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Okay, the kids are still talking, but now we’re going to minimum days for parent conferences. You just can’t appreciate how exhausting parent conferences are until you are doing them. I find myself wiped. The translated ones are the worst for that. I like meeting with the parents, but for whatever reason, it’s a lot [...]

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What I did on President’s Day
On homework and making it meaningful on Mr. Sherman’s blog
Not all ideas are good ones as Scott points out on Dangerously Irrelevent
Bringing adults to the web may be the first step on Will Richardson’s site
Textbooks, we don’t need no stinking textbooks! on Dangerously Irrelevent
Comment on the Middlbury College ban on [...]

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I’ve learned a lot and seen some great stuff from this skypecast, meeting and invite the two or three readers I have currently to join me there if you haven’t checked it out yet:
Tonight at 4 p.m. PDT. You don’t have to have Skype to listen usually (they have an audio feed for RealPlayer/WM Player). [...]

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to teach?
Here is the long promised NCLB post. Okay, here is the background. I teach at a PI (program improvement) school in the Sacramento area. In the interest of disclosure, I am the union representative at my school site. I started teaching as California was introducing a plan for school improvement, and my first teaching job was [...]

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First, links to articles appear in the blogroll at the right under NCLB.
Okay, I’m trying out Diigo, and almost all the articles cited in my previous post are in there along with annotations. If you go there you should be able to see it under alicemercer, but if you can’t let me know. This is [...]

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