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Halloween Comes Early
Mybellringers explains that—from her students perspective, anyway—she probably doesn't need to dress up this year to be taken as a witch.
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Students With Blogs
Bill Ferriter answers frequently asked questions on using blogs in the classroom. This sounds like a very good point:
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Evaluation Dysfunction
If you want to improve the quality of the teaching profession, says Renee Moore, you need to start by improving the quality of teacher-evaluation systems.
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Teaching for the Test?
Will Richardson doesn't like where the Obama administration's Race to the Top program is leading and wonders why "more educators aren't voicing their displeasure at the idea of being paid based on the scores their students make on standardized tests (among other things.)"
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The Art of Math
Lesson idea watch: Mr. Teacher has his ELL students lead a "gallery walk" through their word-problem solutions.
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Supporting Bad Teachers
NYC teacher Ariel Sacks describes the awkward situation of working alongside colleagues from the city's Absent Teacher Reserve, tenured teachers who have been "excessed" from their positions and have now been placed in other schools. It's not exactly a win-win situation:
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Blaming the Teachers, II
Cindee Rigsbee encounters a loud-mouth teacher-basher in an airport, and seeks vengeance, if only through her own sense of purpose:
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Blaming the Teachers
If they were really interested in school improvement, notes Robert Pondiscio of Core Knowledge, policymakers and pundits could try focusing on improving curriculum. But, hey, teacher-bashing is easier and gets you more attention.
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H1N1 Flu Virus Vaccine Fears
With the H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine now being distributed to children across the United States, the debate over vaccine safety has resurfaced, according to the New York Times.
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Overreact Much?
If you're thinking about doing an assignment where students send a letter to public figures, you better make sure that none of your kids chooses to write to economist Thomas Sowell.
Education
Meet the Parents
Loonyhiker (AKA "Pat") of Successful Teacher urges teachers to take steps to increase parent involvement:
Education
Not So Picture Perfect
The Washington Post's Answer Sheet welcomes a guest post from educator David C. Levy, a former curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. who now serves as principal in Bach to Rock music schools. Levy weighs in with his opinion of the arts in school, blaming the descent of arts education on the lack of training that art teachers receive.
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Better Days
After a rough couple of weeks, veteran emotional disabilities teacher Mrs. Ris finds herself settling into the school year: