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Teacher Interview Question: How do you Curb Student Misbehavior?

Excerpt from Road to Teaching: A Guide to Teacher Training, Student Teaching and Finding a Job: Classroom management is a system of practices that increases learning and lowers behavioral problems.  Effective classroom management communicates your expectations to the students. The hiring team … Continue reading

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Worried about failing at student teaching?

Interesting fact – 80% of schools and colleges of education fail 1% or fewer of their student teachers, including 15% that never fail any (Sudzina & Knowles, 1993).

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Math: Eyes Wide Shut

I bunkered down in the elementary school library to catch up on some reading.  Shortly thereafter a veteran teacher guided a young student to a table and chair about 20 feet from me.  I continued to read, but listened to the student … Continue reading

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Plethora of Resources for Future and Student Teachers

I wrote the following post on Edubloggers – a group for those people blogging about the K12 classroom including teachers, administrators, curriculum directors, professional developers, pre-service teachers, and college level educators who focus on k12 education.: Please share with me … Continue reading

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What is it with this class? Part II

Here’s a quick post of what is happening.  This entire week I tweaked the curriculum to allow for the students to have more choice in their project.  I have also started to use some different technologies to allow for the information … Continue reading

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What is it with this class?

I asked myself “what is it with this class”several times during 3rd period.  Today’s class started off on the wrong foot.  A student walked into the class screaming “WHERE’S MY CHAIR ?”  Mind you this is about 30 seconds after the … Continue reading

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Teaching with Learning Objectives

It’s a simple premise:  our students should know what they are learning and why.  The best way to accomplish this is through having learning objectives for every lesson.  Yet, teachers tend to make some common mistake around learning objectives.  Knowing … Continue reading

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Go with the Crazy Ideas.

One of the classes I teach is Business and Personal Law for juniors and seniors.  We are learning the sources of law.  After polling the students regarding their comfort level with understanding these sources of law, I realized most of … Continue reading

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Building a Productive Classroom Step-by-Step

Problem Most likely we have heard the phrase “work smarter, not harder.”  Today, this phrase kept ringing in my head as I stared down a classroom of 30 freshmen in our Information Technology (computers) class.   Each child represented different needs, … Continue reading

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Twitter Teacher

I currently do not tweat.  After reading these two articles I am wondering how I could embrace this tool for my classroom. http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/2009/06/15/tweeting-your-way-to-better-grades.html http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/2009/06/02/twitter-goes-to-college.html Do you use twitter for teaching?  How so?  Share your story.  Also, if have another story … Continue reading

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