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  08/15/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An article on Florida’s new requirement for five hours of mental health education a year in high school sounds like a step forward, but the (Continue Reading)

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Testing – what is it good for?

  01/16/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When I tested over a story I would make fresh copies for the test b/c students often wrote the English above the FL words. Besides (Continue Reading)

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When parents act

  10/21/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My son told me about five parents wrote letters to the school telling them of my son’s influence on their children….. all very positive. Now (Continue Reading)

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The shelves are full but the minds aren’t

  08/03/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Many years ago I presented at ACTFL and called it 30 Years of Black Culture in the Classroom. My main point was that the information (Continue Reading)

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Personal verification of effects of poor teaching of history

  07/28/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen sites the U.S. invasion of Bolshevik Russian 1919-20 and how history textbooks do not mention it. Such omissions (Continue Reading)

Culture, Teaching & Learning

Who learns what how?

  04/15/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’ve written about my wife’s cousin’s experiences learning Italian and Japanese. Tonight he revealed that in English he never could comprehend what he reads. He (Continue Reading)

Basics, Teaching & Learning

Response to a teacher re race

  01/19/2018       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

As quick as I can be 🙂 I am assuming you have students of various ethnicities in your classes. Much of what I write here (Continue Reading)

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The concrete stays hard around our wings

  05/29/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“True–because university fl teaching has been so slow to change, because even methods courses are often not up to date; because textbooks and the way (Continue Reading)

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Professional courtesy

  05/27/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When I entered teaching, I found quickly and sometimes to my chagrin that teachers have a certain profile, part of which is what might be (Continue Reading)

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Notebooks for class

  04/22/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I bring up notebooks in responding to this query only in connection with grading, a recent topic on moretprs. I forgot to mention notebooks as (Continue Reading)

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Fascism for real

  01/31/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The value of education? The emphasis on a college education diminished the role of vocational training in the U.S. From what I can see, only (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Teaching & Learning, View from under the Bus

How to write – Eastern style

  12/21/2016       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Far from being a scold regarding features of grammar, spelling, and word choice, I welcome innovation in rhetoric and style. More and more, though, I (Continue Reading)

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Whence and whither technology? Why?

  10/12/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

from the Diane Ravitch blog: That is, all too often technology is no panacea to improving learning and often undermines funding that might have gone (Continue Reading)

Teaching & Learning

Counting electric sheep

  09/10/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Reading Susan Pinker’s summary of the research on electronic devices in the classroom as aids to learning, my little heart leapt: let’s quote from p. (Continue Reading)

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Teachers walking out on contracts

  08/18/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’m curious. How many of you have seen a teacher walk off the job, not return. In my 26 years of teaching, I saw it (Continue Reading)

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Mirror neurons in the classroom

  08/05/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

From The Village Effect by Susan Pinker, p. 77: “It was not so much the actors’ gestures that elicited a response, Iacoboni suggests, but the (Continue Reading)

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Technology and teaching

  07/29/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

From the Diane Ravitch blog: William Doyle describes an emerging international consensus about the appropriate and limited use of technology in the classroom. Doyle starts (Continue Reading)

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Response to “libraries”

  06/27/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

To support the use of non-electronic media, II would note that more and more research is catching up to the wildfire-like spread of electronic communication, (Continue Reading)

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A blog entry from the Diane Ravitch blog

  02/23/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Chris Tienkin, a professor at Seton Hall University, analyzed the data from the PISA international tests and concludes that they say more about American society (Continue Reading)

Teaching & Learning, Uncategorized

Origins of standard language

  10/08/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Francis Fukuyama in Political Order and Political Decay pp. 187-88 is attributing the change in society from ascribed status in part to the printing press (Continue Reading)

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Really pithy

  09/14/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This fits in with my plan to put items like this in my “Quotes and Anecdotes” category on my blog. Pithy, I say, pithy. Laurie (Continue Reading)

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fortochka

  09/11/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Sarah Palin used a Russian word in her speech at the anti-Iran deal rally, fortochka. I forget the equivalent she gave it, something like escape (Continue Reading)

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Education vs pleasure

  08/27/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Stephen Krashen wrote: Why is pleasure reading always the last resort in language education, especially when it is so effective and pleasant? key words: pleasure/education (Continue Reading)

Anecdotes, Teaching & Learning
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