June 2007 - Posts
I will be posting entertaining, thought-provoking, or otherwise relevant education videos for all of next week. I have created a Videos category on my blog and they will all be listed there. What I really would like to do next week while I am not posting
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I want to spend time writing about things that are important to you as a teacher. Leave me comments or send me email and let me know anything you would like to see me write about. Maybe you have questions. Maybe you have ideas. I want to encourage more
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This is the first time I’ve heard about this and thought it interesting to pass along. According to Mike in Texas, there was a school in Denmark (isn’t it always in Denmark?) where the students have an end of the year tradition of stripping for the faculty.
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We’ve all seen them. People who are able to motivate large numbers of people to do things as a team. Great coaches, teachers, politicians, and even dictators. All of them are great motivators.
Until recently, I would have agreed with that statement.
I
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I know that some school districts pay their teachers for 10 months and then don’t pay them throughout the summer. As far as I know, every district in Texas pays throughout the year. The district where I presently teach pays me twice a month, so I get
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I was reading through messages on TeacherLingo.com and came across this post by Erin.
Hello all and sundry, my name is Erin. I’m not yet a teacher but am researching the possibilities. I’m thinking about teaching history at a private school. Specifically
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After my first post this morning, I realized that I actually met a few high school dropouts. One was mentioned in the previous post. On the flip side were two other young ladies I had lunch with.
These women were 22 and 29 years old. One finished 11th
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I met a high school dropout yesterday. We talked for something like an hour and a half or two hours. It was very revealing and confirms a lot of my thoughts about education. Beware as you read this. If you’re comfortable thinking that everyone needs to
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Most students argue. It’s a fact of life. So it shouldn’t be a concern when our students argue with us. Or should it?
Great teachers don’t have arguers
Have you ever noticed how you can walk into a classroom and hear the teacher talking, and the students
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This past school year, my principal subscribed to The MASTER Teacher. The series had some great articles and this summer, I’m going to review them again, post some highlights, and comment on them briefly.
Issue 2 was entitled: Seven Keys For Discussing
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This past school year, my principal subscribed to The MASTER Teacher. The series had some great articles and this summer, I’m going to review them again, post some highlights, and comment on them briefly.
Issue 1 was entitled: Relationships Always Come
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This past school year, my principal subscribed to The MASTER Teacher. We got weekly tip sheets that offered some great ideas for maintaining better classroom management, communication skills, relationship skills, discipline, motivation, and a whole list
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Think of the many reasons you have to quit. Bad students
Bad administrators
Bad curriculum
Too much paperwork
Too much negativity
Too much responsibility
Not enough time
Not enough credit
Not enough PAY Face it, you are not as good of a teacher as you
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This is an amazing video that demonstrates the violence that can result simply by a school’s failure to have an enforce a no-tolerance dress code. I have watched this video numerous times to check and recheck how harmless he looks at the beginning of
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You won’t believe your eyes! How many guns do you see? This is an amazing video that demonstrates the violence that can result simply by a school’s failure to have an enforce a no-tolerance dress code. I have watched this video numerous times to check
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There is a dearth of good teachers throughout the world. And I’m not just talking about those of us who make a living working with kids in schools, either. Teachers are everywhere. Bad teachers are almost everywhere. Great teachers are exceedingly difficult
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If you are seeing this page there, be aware that I have a whole lot more posts than what come up on the site there. And they are all much longer. Check out my Greatest Hits page to get started. Also, feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed and leave me
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In my effort to be more organized for the upcoming school year, I am beginning by organizing my house. I have been on a mini vacation (visiting my parents) for a little over a week. I returned home yesterday and am able to view my house with different
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In my last post Organization Leads To Sanity, I wrote about how I personally get organized at work. In this post, I am going to give some pointers that I have and that I plan to begin implementing that will allow anyone to get and stay organized much
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After a conversation with another teacher last night, I started looking through the archives. I realized that I have written a few times about having a clean desk and a clean desktop on my computer, but I have never really given a step-by-step guide of
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As I have mentioned before, my priorities as a first year teacher were a little bit off. It wasn’t until the end of my second year before I began to really “get it.” I still don’t get it, but I have begun to. What I learned in the last two and a half
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This is the seventh in a series of posts entitled “Questions That Will Save Your Career.”
How do you keep your sanity?
We come to the final and most personally rewarding part of the whole deal. This has to do with the things that happen outside of the
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This is the sixth in a series of posts entitled “Questions That Will Save Your Career.”
How do you keep the administrators happy?
No matter how hard you try and no matter how much the students and parents love you, certain people remain who can make your
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This is the fifth in a series of posts entitled “Questions That Will Save Your Career.”
How do you keep them away?
Here is where things begin to get fun. When I first started teaching, I did so because I loved working with children. I tried so hard to
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This is the fourth in a series of posts entitled “Questions That Will Save Your Career.”
How do you keep them learning?
We have come to the central part of why we entered into the educational field. Sometimes amidst the classroom management issues, paperwork,
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This is the third in a series of posts entitled “Questions That Will Save Your Career.”
How do you keep them interested?
Maintaining interest in the subject matter is clearly one of the best things you can do for your teaching. If you are asked to give
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