Dennis Harter writes:
We concern ourselves with the big goals and forget the small goals. We don’t have, often enough, the conversations that allow students to connect with us and us with them. The conversations that show how much we value them and their thoughts.
I commented on this in the original post, but I feel the [...]
I came across this quote on Cool Cat Teacher Blog this morning:
“We teach what we know; we reproduce who we are.”
Robert Schmidgall
As I read this quote I am overcome with a sense of responsibility towards my students and my profession.
I am also reminded that so much of what I teach is not content but modeling. [...]
What does literacy look like in your content area?
Ooh…what a great question!
It is difficult for me to pinpoint an answer for this one. I am a high school learning centre teacher. In Quebec, that means I teach students who have language-based disabilities as well as more severe cognitive delays. So literacy is my content area!
My [...]
I had never heard of a blog carnival before last week when I read about this one on Scott McLeod’s Dangerously Irrelevant. A blog carnival is a way of culling together blog posts around a shared theme:
“The goal is to bring the educational blogging community together, to explore themes from a [...]
**Kartoo Visual search for paraeducators**
(type paraeducator in the search field, click on the mindmap key)
The idea of extra help in the classroom is becoming more and more a reality for many classroom teachers. As we move away from stand alone resource room models towards inclusion for students with needs there is a recognition that para-educators [...]
I really think that we are focusing on the wrong things in education reform.
Recent education reform in Quebec – and I am sure it is similar in other areas – has focused on creating new curriculum for students.
Technology reforms focus on how we can best use technology in the classroom to improve student learning and [...]
I’m having fun on wordpress – in particular I am enjoying finding bloggers through my wordpress tags. Today I discovered a blog post by Principal Kendrick called The Importance of Self Esteem where principal Kendrick cited this gem from Michelle Borba:
Special Care for Special Students
Michelle Borba, nationally known author and consultant on
self-esteem and [...]
I just read a post by Elona Hartjes at Teachers at Risk on homework and came across this wonderful twist on homework:
I like Damion Frye’s approach to homework. He teaches grade nine, and for the last three years has been assigning homework to parents. Yes, that’s right. He’s been giving homework to parents. So how [...]
Gleaned from Scott McLeod…
“You can’t expect responsible kids if you don’t give them any responsibility.”
Love it.
Isn’t this what it is all about, this teaching business?
Thanks Scott.
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Really, I am trying.
I don’t usually write about my personal challenges as a teacher in this blog, but today I find myself needing to.
I started at a new school this September and was hired to teach and design a new program for older students (16-21) who are not expected to graduate.
I’m now teaching 14 students [...]
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