Under the Red Sky La vida no es la que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo la recuerda
All My Friends
Parents just don’t understand. The kids and I were at science camp this past week and all in all it was a great week of learning. One incident really frustrated me though. One of the kids was being disrespectful to his counselor, frustrating the counselor in the process. A fellow teacher spoke to the student [...]
Drumming for Money
Things that have me thinking are the following: » Is homework really such a bad thing? Is it possible for students to be successful if they don’t do homework. I’ve never been one to assign tons and tons of homework but how much can it hurt to practice just a bit at home. Why do [...]
Less than 30 Days left in the School Year
I still get a kick out of showing Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me to my students. Even though they are still fifth graders they dive into the content and not so much the language (I cannot afford the edited education version nor does Netflix carry it) which is to my liking. Yeah, Spurlock drops a [...]
No Vacancy
There is a lot of things wrong with teachers losing their jobs because of political decisions or lack thereof. Even worse is the fact that fat isn’t skimmed off the top. It’s also a concern that teachers are laid off not because of performance but on the basis of years of employment. There is something [...]
Class Size
Dan Goldhaber, an education professor at the University of Washington, said the obsession with class size stemmed from a desire for “something that people can grasp easily — you walk into a class and you see exactly how many kids are there.” “Whether or not it translates into an additional advantage doesn’t necessarily matter,” Professor [...]
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