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Teacher’s read on news, developments, and blogs. This blog is no longer being updated.
Education
Putting the Individual In IEP
Sam at clean up on aisle life marvels that, after three-plus years in teaching, she finally attended an IEP meeting that seemed constructive:
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Dorothy Hamill She's Not
Ms. M. provides a harrowing--and hilarious--account of her school's annual ice-skating field trip. Sounds like a pretty dubious idea from the start, right? Well, guess who ends up in the emergency room?
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Reinventing Professional Development
One of the stars of the professional development circuit, classroom tech expert Will Richardson has grown frustrated with schools' continued use of workshops and in-service days to provide teacher training:
Education
Family Values
NYC educator offers some provocative comments on a new ETS study finding—surprise, surprise—that children's home environments have a major impact on their achievement levels in school. He writes:
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Coolness
Eduwonkette highlights a "cool teacher," including her personal advice for new teachers.
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Wiki-Wise
Bill Ferriter offers some useful advice for teachers who are interested in using wikis for class projects but are concerned about students posting inappropriate material. In the end, he says, the risk is worth the reward:
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Apolitical
Hobo Teacher is skeptical that any of the various education-related legislative initiatives being bandied about will ever really improve his lot:
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Restricting Teachers' Growth
Renee Moore sees growing evidence that rigid school-testing systems can ulimately curb teachers' potential and intellectual flexibility. This doesn't bode well, she suggests, for high-needs schools.
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Where Are the Teachers?
Just back from the National Council for Social Studies' annual conference, Polski 3 raises an interesting question: Why don't the people who organize these things get more actual teachers to make the presentations?
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Rock Star
Hobo Teacher has to get his picture taken for his school's "Rock Star Wall." Sounds like a nice honor of sorts, but he makes an interesting point:
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The Best High School
You've heard about U.S. News & World Report's new ranking of the 100 best high schools in the country? Well, Teacher blogger Emmet Rosenfeld's school was number one. He offers some thoughts on the rankings and what makes his school so good.
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Writing Teacher's Block
California Teacher Guy discusses the problems he is having in teaching writing to his students. The materials he received at a PD institute, he says, haven't helped:
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Career Questioning
TMOA of the 408 divulges he's entered a period of career crisis--of professional longing and frustration--that he calls "the ledge." It happens, he says, to many ambitious teachers in the three-to-five year range:
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Wikipedia Wars
A school librarian in New Jersey, fearing poor student research habits, has started a "Just Say No to Wikipedia" campaign. Scott McLeod of Dangerously Irrevelant calls it "a bunch of hooey" and an injustice to students.