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Express 10.19 - Field Notes: The Day I Ditched Points. Message to My Freshman Students  For the first time in many years I am teaching a freshman course, Introduction to Philosophy.

Message to My Freshman Students 

The experience has been mostly good. I had been told that my freshman students would be apathetic, incurious, inattentive, unresponsive and frequently absent, and that they would exude an insufferable sense of entitlement. I am happy to say that this characterization was not true of most students. 10 Habits Of Effective Teachers. 10 Habits Of Effective Teachers Notice that we didn’t use the more vague “good teacher” phrasing.

10 Habits Of Effective Teachers

That’s an important distinction, because here we’re talking about something a bit more clinical. Not entirely scientific and analytical and icky, but not entirely rhetorical and abstract and mushy either. Something somewhere in the middle–human, efficient, and hopefully happy and sustainable as a result. 1. KinectEDucation. 8 Things Your Students Are Afraid to Tell You. Differentiating Using 21st Century Tools - Mahara. Reviews and Ratings for Family Movies, TV Shows, Websites, Video Games, Books and Music. Cybraryman Catalogue of Educational WebSites - Educational Web sites for Teachers, Educators, Parents, Students.

Whizzy things - interactive resources for screen and whiteboard. Toolkit A-Z for Education - PTCweb2. Shmoop: Homework Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep.