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June-July Cover Story
Harry & Rosemary Wong:
Teaching Procedures Is Teaching Expectations
In real estate, the three magic words are location, location, location.
In teaching, the three magic words are prepare, prepare, prepare....
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Barbara & Sue Gruber:
It's Summer---Rest, Relax, Recharge and Have Some Fun!
Don't you have huge lists, on paper or in your head, of all kinds of things you could do? We bet you could spend every day of your entire summer working in your classroom and still have a long list of things to do. Don't do it!...
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Using The Summer To Improve Your Teaching
by Bill Page
Teachers should be granted at least one day each semester to do nothing but spend time in the library reading journals, articles, research papers and teacher magazines, on-line resources and teacher web sites...
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Dear Old Golden Rule Days
Chapter 1 - First Test
by Janet Farquhar
It was my first day of teaching rural school in the mountains of Colorado in the late forties. A pot bellied stove that had been converted to butane, warmed the room. My chunky desk stood in front of a stage, a blackboard took up the back wall...
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Prepare for Discouragement?
by Hg
I spend literally 60-80 hours a week working to do the best job I possibly can. My district couldn't care less. My administrator doesn't even know if I know what I'm doing, whether I'm great, okay, or awful...
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Ending on a Great Note
by Rita/KY
Today was our last day of school. All the sixth graders were crying, coming into my room for hugs, etc. In walks Aaron. Now, I have posted about Aaron before. When he came to our school in fourth grade, he was a very angry, unhappy little boy. In his own words, "My mother don't love me. She dropped me off in my dad's yard, and drove away, like I was an unwanted dog...
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Also in this issue:
COLUMNS
- Teaching Procedures Is Teaching Expectations by Harry & Rosemary Wong
- It's Summer---Rest, Relax, Recharge and Have Some Fun! by Barbara Gruber and Sue Gruber
- Observations From Last Year by Marv Marshall
- Choice: Fountas and Pinnell or 4-Blocks? by Cheryl Sigmon
- Building Emotional Intelligence by Beth Bruno
- Communication in Online Learning Environments: Framing Asynchronous Online Discussions by Leslie Bowman & George París Conway
- I Didn't Know That! Starting Over Again With a New Group and Learning About Them by Ginny Hoover
- Sites For Beginning Teachers Part 2 by Marjan Glavac
- Sustained Silent Reading by Leigh Hall
ARTICLES
- Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!" by Alfie Kohn
- Prepare for Discouragement? by Hg
- Using The Summer To Improve Your Teaching by Bill Page
- What I Know I Know by Bill Page
- Consistency in Congress: Yet Another Child On-line Protection Law that Can't Possibly Work by Dr. Rob Reilly
- Simple Tips to Increase Student Achievement at the High School Level by Geneva Glanzer
- Dear Old Golden Rule Days, Chapter 1 - First Test by Janet Farquhar
- Classroom Management Tips You Wish You'd Known "Back Then" from the Primary Elementary Chatboard
- Teaching for Peace by Jay Davidson
- Book Reviews - The "Power" of Two & Brain Based Teaching: Building Excitement for Learning by Susan Gingras Fitzell
- Classrooms as Discourse Communities by Daniel Chang
- Keeping Records on Students with IEP's from the Special Education Teachers' Chatboard
- The Robinson Residence for Retired Teachers In Quebec by Dave Melanson
- What To Do With Education Catalogs Instead of Tossing Them from: The Teachers.Net Chatboard
- Uncovering the Hidden Web, Part I: Finding What the Search Engines Don't from: ERIC Clearinghouse
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