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. A number of people have contributed their time and expertise in developing the materials that are made available free in the various IAE publications. Click here to learn how you can help develop new IAE materials.
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. " (E.E. Cummings; American poet; 1894–1964.) Morrison, Mary Kay (2008). This excerpt is posted here in the IAE-pedia with the permission of the author given via email on 4/23/2008. Introduction What is humor exactly? The purpose of this book is to affirm, sustain and encourage educators in the practice of humor not only as a personal tool to optimize a healthy life style, but to maximize the benefits of humor in education. Educators value humor. What a healthy dose of humor might do for you 1. Got stress? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. ‘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 . This is his last weekly letter to his staff. By George Wood Some 21 years ago I swiped an idea from my friend Dennis Littky and started sending out what I call “TGIFs.” I have grappled with what to say in this for weeks. There is not a lot (at my advanced age) that I remember about my own time as a student, but what I do remember are the acts of kindness by my teachers. I know I learned a lot of academic stuff too, but what stuck with me were the kindnesses shown when, more often than not, I did nothing to deserve them. When I look back over my notebooks and journals from the past 21 years there are plenty of things I regret. Being kind is not always easy.
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 Bertrand Russell saw the history of civilization as being shaped by an unfortunate oscillation between two opposing evils: tyranny and anarchy, each of which contain the seed of the other. The best course for steering clear of either one, Russell maintained, is liberalism. "The doctrine of liberalism is an attempt to escape from this endless oscillation," writes Russell in A History of Western Philosophy. In 1951 Russell published an article in The New York Times Magazine, "The Best Answer to Fanaticism--Liberalism," with the subtitle: "Its calm search for truth, viewed as dangerous in many places, remains the hope of humanity.
" But the liberal attitude does not say that you should oppose authority. Russell criticizes the radical who would advocate change at any cost. The teacher who urges doctrines subversive to existing authority does not, if he is a liberal, advocate the establishment of a new authority even more tyrannical than the old. 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. The most famous line in the book, which he repeats numerous times throughout the book, is this: for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line… But I especially liked/appreciated this excerpt: The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
And in this book, Dr. Like this: 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 If you want to buy these books online from Amazon.com you can help support my site by going through my bookstore. Between Parent and Teenager, Haim Ginott, 1972 "Rebellion follows rejection. " Differentiate between acceptance and approval. Ginott offers these suggestions: Don't invite dependence Don't hurry to correct facts. "Concerned adults serve best when with confidence they stand and wait. " Insult cuts deeper and lasts longer when it comes from the parent. p 36 Truth for its own sake can be a deadly weapon in family relations.
He quotes a child: My father is sensitive to temperature but not temperament. Chapter 3 Primum non nocere (First, do no harm.) First, of all do not deny your teenager's perception. He gives the example of a child who says the soup is too salty. On problem solving: 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020. Dr. Dobb's | Interview with Alan Kay | July 10, 2012. 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. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. He passed around a skull as he talked. We all took notes and later had a quiz. When he returned my paper, I was shocked. Very simple, Mr. Needless to say, we were outraged. We should have figured it out, Mr. Mr. Every class was an adventure with Mr. We carried our brand-new skepticism into all our classes. If I'm ever asked to propose a solution to the problems in our schools, it will be Mr. Not everyone sees the value in this. A letter to my science teachers | Samantha's daily poem | bentlily | One poem a day.
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. Since firing off the 2,000-plus word email on Tuesday night, the professor has been flooded with emails—from students in his math class, yes, but also from their friends and from their friends.
He’s heard from students at other universities, in other states, and in other countries. 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. Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States of America, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. 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. The English major is vanishing from our colleges as the Latin prerequisite vanished before it, we’re told, a dying choice bound to a dead subject.
The estimable Verlyn Klinkenborg reports in the Times that “At Pomona College (my alma mater) this spring, 16 students graduated with an English major out of a student body of 1,560, a terribly small number,” and from other, similar schools, other, similar numbers. In response, a number of defenses have been mounted, none of them, so far, terribly persuasive even to one rooting for them to persuade. Well, a humanities major may make an obvious contribution to everyone’s welfare. But the truth is that for every broadly humane, technological-minded guy who contributed one new gadget to our prosperity there are six narrow, on-the-spectrum techno-obsessives who contributed twenty. 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. This letter is an attempt to state those expectations clearly, at least from my perspective. I offer you my advice and encouragement as you embark on your high school career because I think there’s a lot that you can do on your own to get ready for college.
Let’s begin with perhaps the most fundamental of all college-readiness skills— reading. Reading Writing. 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. But the brain is a malleable organ. Every time you do an activity, or have a thought, you are changing a piece of yourself into something slightly different than it was before.
Every hour you spend with others, you become more like the people around you. Gradually, you become a different person. Second, I would be wary of inverting the natural order of affections. Speech--Bernanke, The Ten Suggestions--June 2, 2013. Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Baccalaureate Ceremony at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey June 2, 2013 The Ten Suggestions View Video It's nice to be back at Princeton. I'll extend my best wishes to the seniors later, but first I want to congratulate the parents and families here. This is indeed an impressive and appropriate setting for a commencement. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Those are my suggestions. Congratulations, graduates. 1. Return to top. 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. When that activity was finished, the students were asked to respond to current global issues from the perspective of their leader, and the topic of the Russian annexation of the Crimea came up. In classes where students connect ideas from the abstract to real-life events, the role of the teacher — as Wilhelm illustrates — moves from being a distributor of information to one of nurturing students as they collect, evaluate, and process information into unique learning products. For some, these changing roles might signal the end of an era where the teacher serves as a content expert. In reality, however, the converse is true. Related. The Gallup Blog: Teaching May Be the Secret to a Good Life. By Brandon Busteed, Executive Director of Gallup Education, and Dr. Shane Lopez, Gallup Senior Scientist Imagine what life would be like if we started choosing our jobs based on the wellbeing they provide us.
According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, a career in teaching may be the secret to the good life. Never mind the media reports that make teaching in America look like a horrible job, it may be one of the best careers for a person’s wellbeing. Out of 14 major career categories, teachers are No. 2 in overall wellbeing, trailing only physicians. Teachers have high wellbeing because they rate their lives highly and are in great emotional health, which are two key subcomponents of wellbeing. In those two categories, teachers also rank No. 2, beating out professional workers, nurses, business owners, and managers and executives, among others. Gallup and Healthways define wellbeing as all of the things that are important to how we think about and experience our lives.
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. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
RULE SIX: Nothing is a mistake. RULE SEVEN: The only rule is work. RULE EIGHT: Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. RULE NINE: Be happy whenever you can manage it. RULE TEN: "We're breaking all the rules. HINTS: Always be around. No Excuse List. Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies.