Matt Damon is My Hero…
nothing more to be said. Check out the video.
Web-Based Portfolios
The first time I read this post, which was about a year ago, I said to myself, “You’ve got to be kidding.” Since that time, however, I have revisited the blog post in question; in fact, most recently, last evening. Not only did I re-read the initial post, but I also read the three subsequent [...]
Exhausted, But Still Thinking
As I typed my last comment report this morning at approximately 10:22 am, my face crashed down into my laptop keyboard. I was overcome by mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion. Although I am relieved to see the year end, I feel good about the things I was able to accomplish with students. I made some [...]
How Many States Are There? or, Why American Students Are Ignorant
My Dear Brother and I, during our weekly dinner out together, had an engaging conversation about teaching and learning. Specifically, we discussed something that a colleague of mine had tweeted the night before. The tweet concerned the fact that the majority of his students didn’t know exactly how many states there are in the United [...]
Voki?
Perhaps I am late to the party, as it were. But, it has taken me some time – perhaps longer than most foreign language teachers – to feel the Voki love, and to jump on its wagon. Just today, I expressed in a tweet to a colleague that beyond creating a wacky avatar, I considered [...]
Swimming Upstream OR, I’m Just Plain Tired…
and need renewed pep in my step. Teaching language didn’t become difficult for me until 2005. After six years at my previous place of employ, I found myself at a new independent school with a culture that in many ways my skills, education and expertise had not prepared me, and for which nobody in that [...]
Nothing Motivates Like Motivation?
For as long as I can remember, motivation has been a hot topic in the field of education. In fact, I began to think in earnest about motivation, and its relationship to teaching and learning, back in 1994, and I wasn’t even teaching at the time. I was, however, a graduate student working on my [...]
*Ante Up and Kick In!
I spend more time than I would like emailing parents about their children‘s low test/quiz scores, and/or their uncompleted homework assignments. In fact, I did a fair amount of the aforementioned last evening. As a result, I was frustrated. I shared my frustration with my Dear Mom via telephone. I then asked her if she [...]
12 Incredibly Inspiring Real-Life Teachers
Please click this link to read the article. It is an incredibly inspiring list. But, where is Marva Collins?! Then, that would have made the list 13. But, who’s superstitious? Are there other incredibly inspiring teachers that you would have included on the list? Related Articles A supernova for every child (theglobeandmail.com)
