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Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.5 No.4 April 2008 Cover Story by Marvin Marshall Immaculate Perception There is no such thing as immaculate perception. What you see is what you thought before you looked. Harry & Rosemary Wong Effective Teaching Schools That Beat the Academic Odds Columns » Are We Demanding Enough of Our Students? » The Busy Educator's Monthly Five » Podcasting 101 » Think Outside the Box » Problem-Based Learning Part 2: Good problems » Ten Ways to Foster Resiliency in Children Articles » Finger in the Dike Protects Half the Kingdom » April 2008 Writing Prompts » Amusing Abacus » Making the Grade » The Disrespecting of Social Studies » Classroom Magazines: More Than Just Shared Reading » The Silenced Majority » I Won't Learn What You Teach! » Dear Laura Bush » Choice, Access, and Relevance: Reading Workshop in the High School Classroom » Stay Inside the Lines » Chat with Grant Writing Expert LaVerne Hamlin » Proofreading and Learning Disability » Choose-a-Chart » Drexel Online Education Program Features » Featured Lessons: April 2008 » Video Bytes: Abbott and Costello, Earth Day rant and more » Today Is... Daily Commemoration for April 2008 » Live on Teachers.Net: April 2008 » The Lighter Side of Teaching » Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes for Teachers » HELP! Grading: How Do You Do It? » Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers Advertisement The Teachers.Net Gazette is a collaborative project published by the Teachers.Net community Editor in Chief: Kathleen Alape Carpenter Layout Editor: Mary Miehl Cover Story by Marvin Marshall Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong Contributors this month: Cheryl Sigmon, Marjan Glavac, Rob Reilly, Barbara & Sue Gruber, Hal Portner, Leah Davies, Tim Newlin, James Wayne, P.R. Guruprasad, Todd Nelson, Alan Haskvitz, Mandy Yates, Bill Page, Susan Rismiller, Bradley Cook, Kimberly Payne, Kevin Coffey, John Keegan, and YENDOR. Submissions: click for Submission Guidelines Advertising: contact Bob Reap Subscribe for free home delivery Email: State: - Select State (required) - Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington DC Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming -- Canada United Kingdom Australia/NZ Other Featured Advertiser Links FEATURED ADVERTISER LINKS

Kevin Coffey Archive | Biography | Resources | Discussion Stay Inside the Lines How to control creativity and keep it on point. by Kevin Coffey April 1, 2008 What did you learn back in the first grade about coloring? Take your black crayon, if you can find one, with the black crayon, outline the picture you want to color. Then color it whatever color you want to color it. Just stay inside the lines. Stay inside the lines. If you go outside the lines, your work looks sloppy. Color it whatever crazy, hopped up, non-realistic, spasmodic, operatic, rinky-dink color you want, but STAY INSIDE THE LINES!!! This month, my son’s Cub Scout den (I’m the Den Leader) is in charge of the Pack meeting. We have to do the flag ceremony and a skit. During our planning session, I thought I could use the skit as an opportunity to earn the Webeloes’ Showman badge. Since I am an actor, I’m the one who has to figure out how to get this done. One of requirements to get this badge is to write a script for a puppet show. First, my nine boys each made a sock puppet. When I asked them what they would like to name their puppet, mostly I got “I don’t know; What do we have to name them for?" "Crusher; Destroyer, Godzilla.” Then I told them the theme of this month’s Pack meeting: Litter to Glitter. We then tried to come up with ideas for a story to put the puppets in. Here’s a list of the puppets’ names and various ideas they came up with once they were provided with the lines: The Junk Man Collects Trash and makes sculptures out of it. Midnight the Owl Flies around and gets hit in the eye by litter The Litter Bug Gets crushed by falling trash Monsieur Garbage CEO of French Company S. Cargo, pollutes everything Monsieur Debris Monsieur Garbage’s personal assistant Glitterman Superhero of Recycling Mary Monsieur Garbage’s wife The Unknown Man Not quite sure about him yet Godzilla Destroys and eats things of course Suddenly, they could see the lines and immediately began to color inside them. Probably while you’re looking at the ideas and the characters, you can see a story emerging there too. Creativity, art, only happens inside boundaries. If there are no boundaries, it just seems sloppy. It looks like an accident, a mistake rather than on purpose. So have outlines for kids to color inside, whether they’re acting in your play or writing their own. And don’t worry. No matter what your boundaries are, you’ll always have a Godzilla. » More Gazette articles... Discussion For This Article: Stay Inside the Lines Kevin Coffey (April 2008 Gazette) Generic Cialis, 5/02/08, by Danielle. See All Comments | Add Your Comment About Kevin Coffey ... Kevin Coffey is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the Acting Studio Conservatory in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as a stage veteran of 28 years. He's performed in a range of theatre from Shakespeare to musicals, drama to comedy. Since memorizing Bill Cosby and Flip Wilson routines in the fourth grade, Kevin has done stand-up comedy, singing and dancing, writing radio advertisements, DJing and even dressing up like a chicken. Visit his web site at http://coffeyproductions.com/aboutus.aspx Kevin Coffey Columns on Teachers.Net... Stay Inside the Lines" (April 2008) Related Resources & Discussions on Teachers.Net... Reading/Writing Chatboard Books & Literature Chatboard Remedial Reading Chatboard Accelerated Reader Chatboard 4 Blocks Literacy Chatboard Building Blocks (K) Chatboard 6 Traits Writing Chatboard Book Talk Chatboard Library/Media Specialists Chatboard

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