Monthly Archives: December 2008

Questions regarding 21st century teaching

Over the Christmas break I’ve had the opportunity to read a few blogs with teaching tips and information regarding teaching 21st century students. In general, I love the idea of teaching students how to learn rather than lecturing them on what to remember. That whole “teach a man to fish idea”.
Unfortunately, it’s not as easy [...]

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A Valuable Lesson…

I learned a valuable lesson the other day. One of my students completely shut down. The student was managing along, but all of the sudden the motivation disappeared and behavior problems started to rise. After a few classes of this I finally got in touch with someone who knew the child. Turns out the kid [...]

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Two months

It’s been two months since I’ve started teaching. I can’t believe I’ve been a High School teacher for two months.
I also can’t believe I’ve survived these past two months. This has got to be one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. The lesson plans, the long drives, learning all the new rules, not to [...]

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