10+ Good Web Tools to Create picture Quotes for Your Classroom. Using Humor to Maximize Learning - IAE-Pedia. Information Age Education (IAE) is an Oregon non-profit corporation created by David Moursund in July, 2007.
It works to improve the informal and formal education of people of all ages throughout the world. ‘It is harder for us to be nice to kids’ — departing veteran principal. George Wood is retiring this year after serving as principal of Federal Hocking Secondary School in Stewart, Ohio, for 21 years.
He will stay on as superintendent of the Federal Hocking District. Wood is a nationally known author, educator, activist and school reform leader, and founder of the Forum for Education and Democracy . 25 Things Successful Educators Do Differently : InformED. Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy. Image by J.
F. Horrabin, via Wikimedia Commons. Education Has an Element of Danger… – Thoughts from Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk. I read at least two books a month on social justice, poverty, race issues… Yesterday, I presented a synopis of the true classic, The Souls of Black Folk, by W.
E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois, for the Urban Engagement Book Club, sponsored by CitySquare. Dr. Du Bois, co-founder of the NAACP, first African American to earn a Doctorate at Harvard, wrote this book in 1903. Haim Ginott on Teaching Teenagers. EQI.org Home | Parenting | Education | Other Important Authors Notes from Haim Ginott's Books Haim Ginott's most famous quote: Notes from two of his books: Between Teacher and Child Between Parent and Teenager.
21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020. Interview with Alan Kay. Best Teacher I Ever Had. Best Teacher I Ever Had by David Owen Extracted from Reader's Digest (Asian Edition), April 1991, pp. 47-48.
Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. A letter to my science teachers. Cal lecturer's email to students goes viral: "Why I am not cancelling class tomorrow" “I email my students all the time—that isn’t unusual,” Alexander Coward tells us.
“What is very unusual is for one of those emails to go viral.” The UC Berkeley’s math lecturer’s surprise is understandable. Among the torrent of listicles, kitty gifs, and youtube clips depicting moderate-to-severe injury that seize the imagination of the Internet daily, an email from a professor to his 800 students about the scheduling details of his class is hardly the stuff that memes are made of. And yet Coward’s email—in which he used the opportunity of a University of California workers’ strike action to speak at length of the virtues of a college education—seems to have tapped a particular nerve.
How fiction can change reality - Jessica Wise. How to Read a Book was first written in 1940.
It elaborates on ways to effectively read books from several different genres. It was revised in the 1970's to include a list of the top books you should read. Take a look to see how many of the books on the list you have read. An article on how to become an author. Why Teach and Study English? Whence, and where, and why the English major?
The subject is in every mouth—or, at least, is getting kicked around agitatedly in columns and reviews and Op-Ed pieces. An Open Letter to Ninth Graders. Dear First-Year High School Students, I am one of the co-editors of What Is “College-Level” Writing?
—a 2006 collection of essays that focuses on the difference between high school writing and college-level writing. Because of my work on that book, I’ve spent a great deal of time in the last five years thinking about what students need to make the transition from high school to college. Many studies and reports in recent years have argued that there’s an important “expectations gap” between the skills students are typically bringing to college and what college teachers like me think students should be bringing with them to college. Need a Job? Invent It. The Way to Produce a Person. Trigg has seized upon the statistic that a $2,500 donation can prevent one death from malaria, and he figures that, over the course of a lucrative Wall Street career, he can save many lives.
He was motivated to think this way by the utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer. From the article, Trigg seems like an earnest, morally serious man, who, if he lives out his plan, could indeed help save many lives. But if you are thinking of following his example, I would really urge caution. First, you might start down this course seeing finance as a convenient means to realize your deepest commitment: fighting malaria. Bernanke, The Ten Suggestions. Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Baccalaureate Ceremony at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey June 2, 2013 The Ten Suggestions View Video.
Teachers’ Most Powerful Role? Adding Context. Lenny Gonzalez Part 3 in the series Learning In the New Economy of Information. By Shawn McCusker During a recent unit on World War II, Courtney Wilhelm’s U.S. History class conducted a leader’s conference. Students explored broad topics such as economic and political philosophies from the perspective of European leaders from the 1930’s and 1940’s. The Gallup Blog: Teaching May Be the Secret to a Good Life. By Brandon Busteed, Executive Director of Gallup Education, and Dr. Why don't we have "rockstar" teachers? (Quora) Should the U.S. Follow South Korea's Education System? John cage: some rules for students and teachers.
RULE ONE: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for awhile. RULE TWO: General duties of a student - pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students. RULE THREE: General duties of a teacher - pull everything out of your students. RULE FOUR: Consider everything an experiment. RULE FIVE: be self-disciplined - this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. No Excuse List. Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies.