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Another Assigned Summer School Blog

2008-06-26T13:26:27Z

Evaluating My Performance During the Year: 1. Select a "learning goal" where the students were successful. Tell why: Participles. By the end of the year most of them could identify participles and participial phrases. Why? Because I labored ...

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MTC Blog: Coaching

2008-06-23T02:30:43Z

1. Describe Yourself as an Instructional Coach As a coach, I like to look for little mistakes that may escape detection but will become important later on. For instance: when teachers do not verbally specify their plans for the day or their exp...

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Assessment

2008-06-18T17:24:56Z

This year I gave only my own self-made tests. I do not like multiple-choice English tests: I do not see English's primary purpose--to teach one to analyze, interpret, and express oneself competently--well served by having students choose among so...

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A Coon-Huntin' Story

2008-06-18T16:53:25Z

“My friend John Eubanks was a great American. He always said, ‘Give everything a sporting chance. When you go coon huntin’, either take a cross cut saw with you so that you can cut down the tree the coon is in, or climb up the tree and punch him...

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Classroom Management Blog

2008-06-14T00:45:46Z

My first classroom management plan was nonsense. It had little association with how my class would (or could) actually be taught. In the powerpoint detailing my first discipline plan can be found a solicitation of student recommendations for aut...

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Curriculum Mapping - Blog 6/11/08

2008-06-11T21:06:08Z

To tell you the truth, I have nothing to say about curriculum maps. To say that they help is obvious: Karl already hit on the fallacy of strictly fly-by-night teaching (which stands in contrast to my style, which I call fly-by-early-morning). To...

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Songs of Experience...err....Hypothetical Situation 1

2008-05-13T00:27:54Z

You are a white male first-year teacher in the Mississippi Delta. You also have long hair that people, who are NOT students, have been wont to touch and tug on. Ahh, but how times change... Halfway through your first year, whilst trying to find...

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Advice for the first years

2008-04-29T21:59:58Z

As I am completing this blog at the very dregs of punctuality, it must be brief. I'll post a sequel later: Many things that I would like to say have been admirably covered by others (beware the messiah complex, etc.). I want to individually str...

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How Do You Improve the Website?

2008-04-14T01:24:24Z

I tell you what, my standards for and knowledge of the internet are really low. I'm the same way with computers in general. I still have a soft spot for Windows 3.1 because you could click on "File Manager" and have your computer's innards look ...

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The Most Exciting Blog You'll Ever Read

2008-04-14T01:02:50Z

Or, the Required Ole Miss EDSE 557 Education Manifesto Response Part I: Describe how educational technology should be used to support teaching and learning [50-100 words] It appears that educational technology should exist to unburden teachers a...

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