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What is it that actually causes a student to feel he or she is a complete failure? As educators, have we ever considered why actions associated with failing have negative connotations in our culture? Also, have we ever truly...
Posted by admin
- Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:18:06 PDT
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I recently had a discussion with my friend about homework. Since I’m a first grade teacher, she was interested in my take on the amount of homework her first grade son has, and the fact that he has it to begin with.
I...
Posted by admin
- Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:02:40 PDT
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"Dad? OK, a question..."
Those four little words strike panic into the hearts of many fathers. These words buckle the strongest of knees, and can reduce a pillar to a pile of salt.
I'm too old for her questions, I tell...
Posted by admin
- Tue Feb 27, 2007 14:11:41 PST
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We read Marylee Shrider’s column in the The Bakersfield Californian recently talking about student apathy. It got us thinking – do we notice apathy in our students, and if so, why? I don’t think we had ever...
Posted by rudyv
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:53:18 PST
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It’s crunch time. We have an article due. Do you have a paper due? If your research paper and special projects are due, and time is just about gone, what can be done? (Besides actually planning ahead? Too late this...
Posted by admin
- Wed Dec 6, 2006 17:05:19 PST
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We teachers hear those words so often that they are rendered meaningless. Students misbehave, forget to do homework, get bad grades, and they tell us they are grounded for one week, two weeks, three weeks — fill in the blank.
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Posted by admin
- Mon Nov 20, 2006 15:40:08 PST
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Okay. Let’s do a technology check. How many gadgets do your children actually have? Include video game players, iPods, cell phones that do tricks, computers or laptops, and all other must-haves. Are your children...
Posted by admin
- Wed Nov 8, 2006 13:59:32 PST
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When I (Susan) taught fifth grade, I would ask my students what they wanted to be when they grew up. At least one-third of the boys wanted to play professional basketball. In fact, they were sure that if they pursued their dream,...
Anonymous user
- Tue Oct 24, 2006 17:16:58 PDT
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You are driving to work early in the morning. A big yellow bus stops on the side of the road to pick up children. There are flashing red lights. There is a stop sign. What do you think? (I can’t believe I got stuck behind...
Posted by admin
- Tue Oct 10, 2006 15:23:50 PDT
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With school comes homework, something that has been in the news as of late. Two recently published books, “The Homework Myth” by Alfie Kohn and “The Case Against Homework” by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, cite...
Posted by admin
- Thu Sep 28, 2006 14:35:32 PDT
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We know that kids are involved in all kinds of activities outside of school — soccer, baseball, gymnastics, dance, cheer — we could go on and on. But we would like to encourage kids to get involved in extracurricular...
Posted by admin
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:35:37 PDT
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At the risk of sounding old and square, we want to share some thoughts about input and output. First the input.
Input
Kids are great receivers. We think they spend more time receiving information and stimuli than they spend...
Posted by admin
- Thu Aug 31, 2006 14:19:35 PDT
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This is a repeat of a column that we have already run, but we think it bears repeating. In fact, with the new school year about to start, emphasizing the need to listen in order to follow directions is important advice. The start of...
Anonymous user
- Wed Aug 16, 2006 14:09:22 PDT
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What can we do about Global Warming?In our last column, Susan wrote about the movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”We know there is great concern about the changes in climate and temperature on our planet.In the last 100 years, the...
Posted by rudyv
- Thu Jul 20, 2006 23:18:01 PDT
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Al Gore has a movie called “An Inconvenient Truth” that is about global warming. I (Susan) went to see this movie because as a teacher, I like to know as much about current issues (and everything else, really) as I can. As it...
Anonymous user
- Wed Jul 19, 2006 13:43:30 PDT
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