January 2008 - Posts
In the band world, we have a whole concept of bringing in a clinician . This is basically a chance for us to get another, more experienced teacher to come in and tell our kids all the same stuff we’ve been telling them in a different way. Until this morning,
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My recent tutorial, Double Your FeedBurner RSS Numbers Overnight , has been featured as one of 71 tutorials in Daniel’s Blog Writing Project at Daily Blog Tips . Daily Blog Tips has over 8,500 subscribers and is among the top 500 blogs in Technorati’s
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I have been blogging about teaching for a while. I came across a post by Joseph Pisano ( the original post is here ) where he is trying to get at least 100 Music Education Bloggers blogging about music education or music technology. Part of me has been
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I will begin setting up and writing in a Music Education blog soon. The idea was to include Music Education content on this blog, but I think that might alienate a handful of the readers and that is the last thing I want to do. So when it gets up and
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I recently achieved the milestone of having 150 subscribers (I’m still hanging out in that area). In reaching that, I realize that many bloggers use Blogger to host their blogs and FeedBurner for their RSS syndication. That’s a good combination (I much
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** This is a guest post by Mister Teacher of Learn Me Good . Mister Teacher teaches third grade near Dallas, TX. Greetings, faithful readers of So You Want to Teach? Do not attempt to change the channel! We have taken control of the vertical; we have
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I am amazed at the variety of emails that I have been getting from people since beginning to blog. I often don’t pass the requests along, but I thought that today would be a good day to catch up on some of them and share this one with you. As a native
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You have a blog. You want to increase the number of trackbacks you get. You want a larger audience. You want people who are interested in teaching to visit. You want visitors who are technologically savvy (at least enough to read blogs). You want an audience
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What if you could change one thing about your life that would make you a better person (however you define that)? What if you could adjust one thing that would allow you to experience greater success (however you define it)? What if you could start that
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Even if you ignore the majority of this article, check out the last sentence. I am absolutely loving school since coming back from Christmas Break. Even so, I am beginning to get burned out . If you want to know why, go read this . He’s still not back
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Another carnival is out today. The latest edition of the Carnival of Education is up over at Eduwonkette . This blog was nominated for The “Blogging + Teaching Cocktail” Award along with The Tempered Radical . It’s some tough competition, but definitely
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The very first edition of A Teacher’s Life Blog Carnival is up and running over at NOIRLECROI . Subscribe to this blog by clicking on the orange button on the left. Click on the StumbleUpon link below and share this article with the world! Thank you for
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Thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed. You people are awesome! I want to challenge you to invite one person you know who is either a great teacher or an aspiring great teacher to check out So You Want To Teach? for themselves. Email Updates
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I have found this year that I have been making a lot of progress on my own personal teaching style. It’s my 6th year to teach, and I begin what could be seen as the downhill slope of teaching. Now that I am pretty adequate at getting children to be and
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Recently, one of the other teachers sent the following email out to everyone at my campus: Self-sufficient – able to take care of your own needs without help from others Colleagues, over the next several weeks I will be using some of my sponge time to
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The 153rd Carnival of Education is now online at Columbus Education Agency . He has included one of my articles. You’ll have to visit the site to find out which one though! Someday I’ll get around to checking the other fine links out. For the time being,
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This is some amazing stuff here! Anyone have any experience with these Power Teaching techniques? This stuff looks like it has some real merit. 1st Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 6th Grade College Philosophy Subscribe to this blog by clicking on the orange
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I have fallen behind on the blog lately, but that is because I am actually trying to move forward some more in my personal life. Sometimes sacrifices are necessary parts of progress. I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight a few of the great comments
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Check this stuff out! Are there any of you out there who actually do cool stuff like this? If so, let me know. If not, then find a way to do one experiment/demonstration like this each month for the rest of your teaching career. It will change lives.
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It still works. Check it out at NYC Educator . I wish I could say I handle it the good ol’ boy way all the time. I don’t. What I have discovered is that as I get older and wiser (ha), I handle misbehaviors better. The key is coming up with a contingency
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Thanks to Ken, who emailed me, I discovered that commenting has been disabled since I changed to the new site layout. It is now fixed. All of those things you wanted to tell me can now be told me! Sorry about that. Subscribe to this blog by clicking on
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Welcome to the January 2, 2008 edition of The Carnival of Education . I have been asked to host this party, so fasten your seat belts, tighten your shoelaces, batten down the hatches, and let the good times roll. How’s that for a cliché riddled sentence?
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