Teaching

Welcome to the 'Teaching' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Teaching'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Teaching”

• I Don’t Like to Read! by Nancy Carlson

  
  Special 2 me — Authority: 125
  I Don’t Like to Read!, written & illustrated by Nancy Carlson, is a book that I’ve book looking for. I am always on the lookout for amazing books; especially ones that deal with slow learners or those with learning disabilities. This book, my latest purchase, deals with slow learners. The heroine of the book ...
  3 hours ago

• Joseph McCarthy

  
  Athens & Jerusalem — Authority: 475
  An essay collection by J. William T. Youngs, American Realities , has a remarkably sensitive and sympathetic biography of Joseph McCarthy. Just to note that PC isnt everywhere. Speaking of McCarthy, one of my students thinks his last name was McCartney. When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to ...
  4 hours ago

• Fall of the Berlin Wall - Video and Photos

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 596
  Tomorrow, November 9, marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall . CBS News has two visual resources looking back at the events of November 1989. The Fall of the Berlin Wall is a slideshow of twelve images with captions from twenty years ago. Berlin Wall in Pictures is a three minute documentary of ...
  6 hours ago

• Evaluations have little role in promoting better teaching

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 965
  Those unfortunate people in the District might worry about the quality of their teachers and wait anxiously for the results of the school systems controversial new evaluation of classroom techniques and test score improvement. But those of us in the Washington area suburbs dont have to worry be...
  6 hours ago

• Thumb print scan for sign in??

  
  TeakDoor.com - The Thailand Forum — Authority: 164
  I have been told by my school that we have to scan our thumb for the daily sign-in and sign-out, thay have also said that this is requested by Thai law?? can anyone let me know if the thumb scan is required by law? personally i think they are talking a load of shite. Cheers
  6 hours ago

• Maps of War - Animated Thematic Maps

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 596
  Maps of War has a collection of seven animated maps based on the themes of war, religion, and politics. Click here to see the History of Religions map . You can embed these maps into a blog or website, but I found that my blog loaded very slowly when I tried embedding the maps. Maps of War also has an extensive ...
  7 hours ago

• another joy of teaching

  
  R+D — Authority: 116
  M and I were talking about sharing knowledge; he teaches design and I teach drawing/mixed media at the ASUC Art Studio . We both love to encourage our students to be extreme in their embrace of tools and techniques. He articulated one of my new favorite pedagogical mottoes: The pocket in the back of my Moleskin ...
  7 hours ago

• Creative Kids (Part 2): 7 Ways to Teach Flow

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  In my previous post , I shared why its a good idea to help kids learn to enter a flow state more often. Here is the how : 7 tips for helping your (or any) child get the benefits of entering and staying longer in the flow zone: 1. DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF FLOW. Learn the signs of flow (one way is to keep ...
  7 hours ago

• Educating students shouldn’t take a back seat to research

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 444
  The dueling news releases emanating these days from the Tier One aspirers look impressive, daunting even: A University of Texas at Arlington professor got a $281,547 four-year National Science Foundation grant for a research project called “NanoDomain Structure and Multifunctional Properties of Polymer Derived ...
  8 hours ago

• Seminar on Teaching Writing: Intro to Research

  
  A Teacher's Education — Authority: 420
  For the last few months, Dingo , O’Mama and I have been zipping emails back and forth through cyberspace as we’ve taught our respective classes.  We’ve talked about pretty much everything from grading (Oy!  The papers !) to professional development.  We’ve found a lot of useful material and invaluable ...
  8 hours ago

• 17 Ways Kids Manipulate Us and How This Book Can Help

  
  Family Man Blog — Authority: 106
  A few years ago, I sought the counsel of Dr. David Swanson when my wife and I needed more help with managing our parenting challenges. Swanson was down-to-earth, non-judgmental, and incredibly direct in his advice, which we use to this day. Now, any parent can access Swanson’s insights by reading his new book, ...
  8 hours ago

• The recession in cartoons

  
  Economics — Authority: 140
  I missed this last week whilst away in Hong Kong - but the Guardian has a lovely section of recession-related cartoons guaranteed to brighten up a worksheet or two!
  9 hours ago

• David Blanchflower on Unemployment Policies

  
  Economics — Authority: 140
  David Blanchflower writes in the new Autumn edition of the RSA’s Journal about the help needed to avert an unemployment time bomb especially for younger workers. This piece builds on his recent talk at the RSA. It is a superb article and has some powerful sections on the economic and social consequences of high ...
  9 hours ago

• EduCamp Graz

  
  Ralf Appelt — Authority: 411
  In den letzten Tagen war ich auf dem EduCamp in Graz. Wie es sich für ein BarCamp gehört habe ich versucht mich nicht nur in die Sessions der anderen einzubringen, sondern auch wenigstens eine eigene Session anzubieten. Ein Thema welches mich schon seit längerem beschäftigt ist das Thema Seminarblogs. Der folgende ...
  10 hours ago

• IT HAS BEEN A MONTH - WOW

  
  MY THOUGHTS — Authority: 115
  Sorry I haven’t been writing more blog posts lately, but life really, really just got in the way. I have finished my first month back at teaching!  It wasn’t easy by any stretch of the imagination.  The other teachers and student had developed their routines  and were almost five weeks into the school year ...
  10 hours ago

• Brave New (Charter) World

  
  Teacher in a Strange Land — Authority: 103
  Let’sget biases and politics out of the way first. I am a big fan of the charterschool concept—defined as the rich idea that when it comes to schooling, onesize does not fit all, and big monolithic districts do not and cannot serve diversechildren as well as site-directed, purpose-driven, innovative schools. If ...
  11 hours ago

• Computer Labs for Kids: Volunteers Needed for SOS Childrens Village Illinois Project

  
  Chess, Goddess and Everything — Authority: 139
  Shira Evans is looking for additional volunteers (last count, she needs 10) to assist in her Foundations project next Sunday, November 15, 2009, at the SOS Childrens Village Illinois in Chicago, Illinois. (Computer Labs for Kids).The goal is to have one mentor/buddy for each child (28 in all). You do not need to know ...
  12 hours ago

• POSSE APAC Day 0: What’s up, and how can we deploy multilingual awesome?

  
  [M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og — Authority: 428
  POSSE APAC starts tomorrow morning – or rather, this morning, in about 6 hours at Nanyang Polytechnic . Harish Pillay and I are going to be leading a contingent of lecturers from across Asia into becoming Fedora Project contributors so they can go back and incorporate teaching open source into their home ...
  13 hours ago

• Weekend? What weekend?

  
  College English — Authority: 113
  Another thing I dislike* about my wonderful, chosen, profession as a college teacher is the fact that I can rarely enjoy a day off during term time. There is always homework: marking, prep, reading. Or thinking about homework. Even when I make time to do something else, the work that needs to be done is percolating ...
  13 hours ago

• How Did You Get Your Name?

  
  planetjan — Authority: 106
  I could have been named Susan or Barbara, but the relatives in California nabbed those first.  So, I was named Janet.   When I got married my husband started calling me Jan.  I was fine with that.  Because I was such a happy child, my nickname was “Jan-ny Gay.”  But that was back before…oh, you know. When ...
  13 hours ago

Comments about Teaching