I was like you when I was in school. I was most happy when I was working by myself. It gives me a real respect for those kids who are now like we...
Under "Special Interests" there's a topic called "Job Seekers" and in there are a couple of threads called "Interview Questions" where people have...
I've thought about partial credit a lot...still thinking! I try to think that an "A," whatever the teacher means by an "A," means exceptional,...
Two great books to read....Harry Wong's "The First Days of School," and Fred Jones' "Tools for Teaching." Good luck - we are pulling for you!
This is so depressing...
I write a thank you note for everything.
I really like the interactive bulletin board idea, with a puzzle or problem to do. And I love the math quotes, especially the funny ones!...
I agree with all of this except taping it to somewhere the student can get to it. I'd tape it to my blackboard, or my podium, or keep it anywhere...
Pm'd you...
I tell my kids (and I've put it in writing) that anything we've discussed in class, or was in the notes, or in the HW, or in the book, can be on...
Have you tried some examples of figures that look similar but aren't (maybe the ratio of two of the pairs of sides reduce to 2 to 3, but the other...
I worked summers (teaching summer school, working at a book store) to pay off school bills and kids' college expenses, then took a summer off for...
What everyone else said...plus, make sure they have HW to start (a handout or an assignment from the book) that they are to start the minute they...
:) This!
I teach math, and I do use a modified version of the Cornell note taking system (the only part I don't use is the bottom section.) But the 2/3 -...
This is one of the reasons that, years ago, I started calling my students by Mr. or Ms. and their last name.
"Does anybody coach or run an after school club? Do you get paid extra or do you just do it volunteer?" I have coached for years and years, four...
I don't know why it wouldn't be OK to say. You WERE annoyed, for very good reason. And when she asked why you would say this to a child, it seemed...
"His social studies teachers were average or below average---but most were coaches." I really take issue with this implication that being a coach...
