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Teaching Tip Tuesdays – Sometime You Just Need a Break
I hope you have been enjoying my Teaching Tip Tuesdays series of posts. Today’s tip – Sometimes You Just Need a Break. Teachers work really hard. We have so much work to do on a daily basis. That’s why it is important to try and do as much work as we can at school so…
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Give Me The Tools to Do My Job
Until you have done it, you will never know how difficult a job it is to get in front of two-dozen kids each and every day and try to teach them. There are so many obstacles that need to be overcome on a daily basis. Some students make no qualms about the fact that they…
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Recommended Reads – Grease Monkey
I just love the public library. I can’t tell you how many books I have discovered there, quite by accident, that have made it onto my all-time favourites list. This book is just the latest addition. I’m only half way through it but it has totally pulled me into this fictional world. I stayed up…
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Mixed With Love – Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Baby, I made this 3-sided mixtape just for you.* I mixed it with love. I hope you enjoy it. I also left another birthday surprise for you on my other blog. So start downloading these files and then head on over to Thoughtful Cacophony. *To my readers, I know, it’s weird to give…
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Teaching Tip Tuesdays – USB Drives
Here’s a great tip for helping your students in the computer lab. Go to the surplus store and pick up some cheap USB thumb drives. The above drives only cost me $4.00 a piece. You can’t really beat that. Label the thumb drives and keep them in your classroom. I can’t tell you how many…
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Scenes From A Classroom: Episode 1
Mr. March tries to use skateboarding to help his class understand some of the concepts they have been studying in science and math. But today is no ordinary day. Find out what happens in … Scenes From a Classroom Episode 1 While this story is based on fact, it is fiction. Any resemblance to students…
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Parents – Let’s Talk
Today something amazing happened. I had a parent come to my classroom and ask how her daughter was doing in class. We talked quite frankly about the challenges she has faced, the success that she has had this year, and the things that she can improve on. We didn’t dwell on the report card, comments,…
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Rap is Music
I wrote a post two years ago to try and battle the mind frame that Rap Music Isn’t Music Since then, I have continued to get comments on that post where the vast majority of people cannot seem to concede that rap is indeed music. The argument seems to go that it takes no talent…
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Jericho Returns for a Third Season
Jericho is an amazing television series that I have written about here time and time again. I was hooked on it from the very first episode. It drew me in and kept me on the edge of my seat for 22 episodes. Unfortunately, this amazing show didn’t have the numbers that the network wanted to…