Reflections on Teaching

Well, I got through a week (albeit at 4 day one) with nary a sick day (yippee). I’m still not at 100%, and since it was a short week, the periods were shortened so I have less going on. Here are highlights:
1. Spreading the tech joy: All teachers at my site have–finally–document cameras and digital [...]

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I have not been blogging regularly, and I hope you will excuse me for this, but I’ve been sick on and off since before Winter Break. It’s sapped my will to write and some of my creative juices, so I just don’t have much to say. Here is a short update on what little I’ve [...]

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As happens in the run up to Winter Break, time takes on some very strange and elastic properties. While days once dragged on endlessly, they are now short. Or time is endless, but your students’ attention span is not. What I find happening with classes in my school is that as time winds down to [...]

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It was a really hectic week both at school (first full day, full week in a while), and after school for me, and I added doing a 10 mile bike trek with my son’s boy scout troop to my weekend mix. Needless to say, I didn’t get around to reflecting on my week until now.
There [...]

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I like to think this blog is pretty ecclectic (although this may be self-delusion on my part). I’ve gotten positive responses to a variety of different posts over the last few weeks from ones where I blogged about brain science and the education of children in poverty (wow, that sounds way too passive — how [...]

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This is a weird couple of weeks because we have parent conferences (with minimum days) backing up onto the Thanksgiving Holiday. My district is one of the few in the area that still has kids come in during Thanksgiving week, so there is this funny 2-day dog-leg of a week. The schedule is all mucked [...]

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As I’m starting new units, one of them has offered examples of both success and failure, and some lessons for me. This isn’t one of those big “ah ha’s” but one of those smaller moments of enlightenment that make up the day-to-day practice of teaching, and improving that practice.
The unit is on Astronomy which we [...]

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Between a bought with a cold and new units to set up at work, I’ve gotten behind in my posting, and for this I apologize. Lot’s of interesting things are taking place.
Self-Control Unit for upper grade
I will come back to this unit over time between other units.  The latest thing I was doing with students [...]

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