Here’s a typical post: I feel like I am using too many worksheets in my Spanish 2 class, but I am unsure how to get (Continue Reading)
Here’s a typical post: I feel like I am using too many worksheets in my Spanish 2 class, but I am unsure how to get (Continue Reading)
O Happy Day! My numbers look very good for next year. I won’t have my freshman numbers until around April 1, but three upper classmen (Continue Reading)
Similar to the article in the New York Times magazine Sunday March 7, this article in The Atlantic offers another analytic survey of good teaching. (Continue Reading)
The article in the Sunday New York Times magazine, March 7, 2010, put on display an approach I encountered in counseling. The famous Neural Linguistic (Continue Reading)
Next week we present our fairly tales. This week has been revealing b/c I can see how well students can produce. Production is a questionable (Continue Reading)
Comments on linguistic superiority complexes sparked this blog entry in me b/c what is dogging our profession now is the heritage of both classical learning (Continue Reading)
The following came out on a listserv: “There is another way. Finland, ranked by the OECD as having the world’s best education system, faced many (Continue Reading)
March is a great month for Latin teachers because everyone knows about the Ides of March and since we do dates in Latin every day, (Continue Reading)
I want to ask her why, if I, someone who’d entered teaching late in life, could see this early on, why couldn’t she? Pakistan? You (Continue Reading)
Today Diane Ravitch appeared on npr and reversed her previous stands on education. This is huge because she was the darling of the conservatives, a (Continue Reading)
When I worked as a therapist in a Child & Family area of a large mental health center, a client and I put together a (Continue Reading)
Post from a listserv: > In fact, when I was asked in France, “Tu aimes Harry Potter?” I never did > manage to understand until (Continue Reading)
From 1965, a major linguist, H. A. Gleason, wrote: “The schools have struggled valiantly to make the standard pattern universal, but with various degrees of (Continue Reading)
This was posted by my friend, Brian. It is the sort of cultural exploration I wish I saw more of. Of course we want to (Continue Reading)
I just talk to the students about the story. Today I read a story out loud and asked one student to stop every time she (Continue Reading)
Re the article on the anti-school people: The author is Tom Siebold and the title is Framework for Understanding the Anti-Public School Movement. The page (Continue Reading)
This isn’t the post I sent to flteach but it has some thoughts in it. The thread of learning styles was going in directions so (Continue Reading)
What a good many people seem to miss when they say that your learning style needs to fit the instructor’s teaching style is that they (Continue Reading)
Gimme a minute, will ya? Such speech is labeled slovenly by our grammar mavens. It should be pronounced ’giVe me” and ’you’, they declare, otherwise, (Continue Reading)
On flteach there was a thread on discussing race and ethnicity in the classroom. It was started by a teacher who was concerned that a (Continue Reading)