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Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.5 No.5 May 2008 Cover Story by Todd R. Nelson Only a School. Only a Teacher. School is still, at its heart, a dance of men and women of character. A school is its teachers. Harry & Rosemary Wong An Amazing Kindergarten Teacher I use modified modeling to teach my students the correct procedures. Instead of just telling, I act out the wrong way first.... Columns » Promoting Responsibility - Or How Not ToMarvin Marshall » Differentiated Instruction & Ability GroupingCheryl Sigmon » The Busy Educator's Monthly FiveMarjan Glavac » Counting the days yet?Barbara & Sue Gruber » Problem-Based Learning, Part 3Hal Portner » Successful TeachersLeah Davies Articles » 'Subprime' Is Voted "Word Of The Year" For 2007 » May 2008 Writing Prompts » Use Math's Magic to Intrigue Students Solving Linear Equations » I Choose Teaching - A Meaningful Career » Teacher Appreciation Day: Not Nearly Enough » Treating All Students With Dignity » Two Teachers, Two Philosophies, One Result » Favorite Teacher Appreciation Activities » Academic Writing Guidelines » What is an Effective Teacher? » Drexel Online Education Program Features » Candles of Inspiration: May 2008 » Featured Lessons: May 2008 » Video Bytes: A Hidden Lesson, Baptism By Fire, Mom and more... » Today Is... Daily Commemoration for May 2008 » Live on Teachers.Net: May 2008 » The Lighter Side of Teaching » Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes for Teachers » Is a school only as good as the teachers in it? » Teachers' Best Teachers » What Is It About Teaching That Keeps You Going? » 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 Todd R. Nelson Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong Contributors this month: Marvin Marshall,Cheryl Sigmon, Marjan Glavac, , Barbara & Sue Gruber, Hal Portner, Leah Davies, Tim Newlin, James Wayne, P.R. Guruprasad, Donna Streetenberger, Alan Haskvitz, Laura Dombrosky Miller, Bill Page, 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

Apple Seeds Barb Stutesman Apple Seeds for May, 2008 By Barb Stutesman Regular Feature in the Gazette May 1, 2008 Every morning Barb/MI posts an inspiring or thought-provoking quotation we refer to as an "Apple Seed" on the main chatboard http://teachers.net/chatboard. The "Apple Seeds" she posted during the month of April are compiled here... If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~ Welsh proverb Being ignorant is not as shameful as being unwilling to learn. ~ Unknown April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. ~ William Shakespeare Character my be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. ~ Phillips Brooks Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~ B. F. Skinner Climb as though you were to live forever. Live as though you were to die tomorrow. ~ Unknown Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. ~ Helen Keller What we choose to learn will remain the most significant part of the learning process. ~ Unknown While one person hesitates because s/he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ~ Henry Link Unless we can keep our sights on tomorrow, we cannot expect to be in touch with today. ~ Unknown Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ~ Francis de Sales Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~ Unknown Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa One of the greatest – and simplest – tools for learning more is doing more. ~ Unknown Philosophy teaches a person that s/he can’t take it with her/him; taxes teach her/him that s/he can’t leave it behind, either. ~ Mignon McLaughlin We don’t just receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us. ~ Unknown Teaching is one of the few professions that permit love. ~ Theodore Roethke I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do, any kindness that I can show, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again. ~ Unknown People will believe anything if you whisper it. ~ The Farmer’s Almanac Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ~ Helen Keller Reading furnishes the mind with materials of knowledge; thinking makes what we read ours. ~ John Locke We make our living by what we do. We make our life by what we give. ~ Danny Glover Success comes not as much by changing the circumstances of our lives as by changing our attitude toward them. ~ Unknown It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. ~ Rene Descartes Now every field is clothes with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its joyful attire. ~ Virgil Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. ~ Charles Dickens What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. ~ Joseph Addison The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll The things that matter the most in this world can never be held in our hand. ~ Gloria Gaither As light is pleasant to the eye, so truth is to the understanding. ~ Richard Pelham Printable "Apple Seeds" in pdf format » More Gazette articles... Discussion for: Apple Seeds, May 2008 Barb Stutesman (May 2008 Gazette) Be the first to add a comment - CLICK HERE Related Resources & Discussions on Teachers.Net... Teachers.Net Golden Apple Chatboard Grade Level Chatboards Teachers.Net Lesson Bank Teacher Mailrings

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