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Teaching Tip Tuesdays – Table of Contents
Welcome to Teaching Tips. This is an archive page that features all of the teaching tips that have been posted. Please visit this page often as it will be continually updated with each new tip. Below you find the tips in the order they have appeared on the site. If you have any questions, comments,…
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What I’m Thankful For…
The Thanksgiving Long Weekend starts today. And I’m glad it does. I needed this holiday to come around right about now to remind me of all my blessings. I hit a rough patch recently, and it’s been a difficult past few months, but I do have a lot to be thankful for. Things I’m Thankful…
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My Prized Autograph from Claire Danes
I wrote Claire Danes a fan letter after watching the second episode of her amazing show “My So-Called Life.” Something about her left me awestruck. I had to write that letter. I became an immediate fan and looked forward to Thursday nights at 8:00 to watch her on that excellent series. I was almost floored…
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Teaching Tip Tuesday – Musical Corners
Today I would like to share with you a game that can be played in your classroom at any time when your students need a quick 5 to 10 minute activity break. Musical Corners Number the corners of your classroom with the numbers 1 through 4. Since I teach mapping at the start of the…
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Afternoon’s Will Never Be The Same
When I first started teaching, I had a long commute into the city. For a while, I enjoyed the drive and the time alone in the car. I blasted my music and sang along to it. It was nice. But after a while, my music wasn’t enough to keep me entertained on those three hours…
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My Trail Run Through the Swamp
It’s time for another visual tour of my trail run. This time, I hit the Lafarge 2000 Trail that runs alongside Beverly Swamp between the 8th concession and Highway 97 in Flamborough, Ontario, Canada. I started on the road a few kilometres away from the start of the trail. This hill was tougher to run…
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Know Your History Episode 1 – Hip Hop is a Culture
This is the transcript of my new segment for DOPEfm radio. It aired last weekend and is available for you to download as a free podcast. I hope that you enjoy this segment. I plan on producing a new episode monthly and would really like to get your feedback on it. Know Your History –…
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Where Are The Desks?
This is a picture of my classroom before the students arrived in the morning for the first day of school. I set up mats for each student to sit down on the floor. In front of those mats, I placed a hula-hoop with a name tag, a pencil case, and the first assignment. I instructed…
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Cale Sampson Concert
I went to this show on Friday and had the opportunity to sit down with Cale Sampson for an in-depth interview. The interview will air next weekend on DOPEfm. Please stay tuned to my blog to download the podcast for free and read the transcript of that interview here next week. In the meantime, here…
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We All Need Some Closure
Have you ever had a relationship that ended badly and just wished that you could have one more day to set things straight? Do you have things that you would like to say but probably won’t ever get the chance to? I bet it’s safe to say that we’ve all been in that position at…