Teacher Observations: Principals vs. the Union
Teacher Magazine has an article today about Idaho’s progress in developing a standardized teacher evaluation that could be a stepping stone for developing an acceptable pay-for-performance legislature....
View ArticleEd Tech is the new Home Ec and Shop
Mark Wagner of EdTechLife fame posted a great, comprehensive and layman’s look into the candidates’ educational policies. He discovered some surprising and not-so-surprising facts. For one, McCain...
View ArticleIt’s the End of The Internet as we Know It (and I feel…)
Check out this kinda frightening prediction from early Time Magazine sources. It seems that there is an attempt to create blocks of media packages starting as early as 2012 or earlier. That is, very...
View ArticleComment on Dangerously Irrelevant’s “Ed Tech Quarantine?”
Sometimes I get a mental check at how new to edublogging I am. I just discovered Dangerously Irrelevant, can you believe it? Anyway, I like the guy’s style. So he just posted an interesting article...
View ArticleMy New Interactive Whiteboard…an update
OK, you know when you get a new puppy and you love it and you couldn’t live without it and then you find out it has hip dysplasia? That’s a little of what my relationship is like with my new...
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Top 10: How to Take Control of Your Teaching
Occasionally, I repost this article so that new readers can find it more easily. Based on some very enthusiastic feedback, it has since morphed into a book proposal called The Top Secret New Teachers...
View ArticleTeacher Magazine: Test Prep Magic
Check out my article in yesterday’s Teacher Magazine outlining 5 little-thought-about strategies in teaching test prep. Hope it helps you during your own Test Prep season. -Tweenteacher © heather for...
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The Obsession with Self-Quantification and the Consequence in Education
I recently read a commentary in Time Magazine by Kathleen Parker called, Count Me Out. It was a fascinating little diatribe about our obsession with self-tracking and quantifying success. She was...
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