Reflections on Teaching

You’ll probably have to click to see the full size to read this, but check out the quote used for the Wikipedia donation beg and the juxtaposition of it with the title for the search subject.

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Since I was starting a new position, I had a very streamlined about page. I planned to revisit it over Winter Break, thinking I’d have more to add at this point. Here it is:
Howdy! I’m a computer lab teacher at an elementary school in Sacramento, CA. This is my first year teaching computers, but I [...]

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Iced from Lida Rose’s photostream on Flickr (cc license)

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C3K to Go – Channel3000.com Video  Okay, this is from long ago, but it is impressive. Kids build a covered bridge for a high school project. I think it came from John Pederson on Twitter.
Mark Pullen had two posts I commented and thought about this week…“It Just Didn’t Work Out For Me” « The Elementary [...]

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Snowy Waterfall from Stuck in Custom’s photostream on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
The Administrator’s Slimming Regime…
via Miz Mercer’s Microblog on 12/21/07
Me: Hey Mr. AP, you on that admin diet plan? No lunch till the kids go home?
Mr. A.P.: Hey, I don’t get lunch until 6:30 some days.
Me: I see you power walking the hallways this [...]

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I finished up the week with all day SST meetings. SST, or Student Study Team, are regularly (weekly) meetings where we discuss two to three students who have needs that are exceeding their teacher’s ability to support them. We discuss interventions, and if it looks like they need to get them, we put them on [...]

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Just cause it’s pretty, The Coast Swirl from Stuck In Custom’s photostream
“I’ve discovered the perfect movie for quieting and calming a class. I’m saving it for Christmas at home with my own kid.”
- Day in a Sentence 12/12/2007 (book and video)
via Miz Mercer’s Microblog on 12/12/07
It was about 45 degrees on the yard this [...]

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Instructify » Blog Archive » Pocket-Sized Dry Erase Board: Not Just for Students With Excellent Vision where I share my tip for a “poor teacher’s” white boards using sheet protectors. Also added a link to this page on clever uses for dry erase markers on LifeHack.
the pernicious myth of “earning a grade” | stimulant – [...]

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