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Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Thursday, November 7, 2013

Self Confidence and Modeling: Yes, Teachers I Am Talking To You!

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I have given two presentations over the last few weeks that each contained a section about me speaking on teachers modeling their message an...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Teaching Ideas: NASA, Space, Planets, and Moons #coffeechugPLN

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NASA Haughton-Mars Project:  program aimed at developing new technologies, strategies, humans factors experience, and field-based operatio...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Can we push our kids too much and too far?

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Reading an article in Parents  as part of my self experiment to push my comfort zone and perceptions I read about the issue of the amount o...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Digital Citzenship CAN and SHOULD be taught to young kids

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My son is going to be in third grade this fall and he has more online awareness than I had at any time in my life growing up as a kid and te...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

6 Key Ideas To Harnessing Our Power As Educators

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Yesterday was the deadline for the Iowa Teacher of the Year application. I finally submitted my 20 page dissertation covering a variety of q...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

What Am I Teaching and the Problem with Students: They Can't Identify The Problem #Choose2Matter #Quest2Matter

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As I continue to work with my students on the #Quest2Matter project I am having so many thoughts running through my head. Literally, my bra...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Coffeechug PLN - Twitter for Educators Task 10: Twitter Abbreviations and Twittonary Tool

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What do all the abbreviations mean? This was one of the many great questions from our first Twitter chat on Tuesday night. I am going to do ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Coffeechug PLN - Twitter for Educators Task 5: Extra Commands and Terms to Know

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Here we are moving forward on to Task 5: Extra Commands. These are just some more things for you to explore and get to know in order to be m...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Using Technology in Junior High Math: Learning with cell phones and iPads and computers OH MY!

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My wife is a junior high algebra and pre algebra teacher for Pleasant Valley Junior High. She does not like to give herself credit for th...
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Teaching Ideas: Eric Collard, Nikola Tesla, and Controlling The Weather

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Here is an incredible inspiration for students who might like to be challenged to make a difference. Eric Dollard has been working on...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Teacher Thoughts on Dan Pink: To Sell Is Human Part 1

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I am reading Daniel Pink, To Sell Is Human. As I read I have marked down some passages that I think are worth discussing. I am trying to rea...
Monday, November 19, 2012

A New System For Identifying Gifted Education - My New Pursuit and Passion PART 2

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Here is a link to Part 1 of my Gifted Education Screening Idea I  have continued to ponder my idea of how we screen for gifted education. ...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Flat Classroom: Eracism Round 1: AMAZING!

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This year I have students participating in another Flat Classroom Project. I have 16 8th grade students taking part in the Eracism proje...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Quail Update: 4 Days Old

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Last Friday we finally had class with our 5th grade ELP students. They were so excited about the quail. We talked about what had developed s...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Edmodo Video Segment

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I agreed to help out another teacher with her presentation on the power of Edmodo. Here is the quick 3 minute video clip I created showcasin...
Friday, October 19, 2012

QUAIL HATCH!!!!

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Late last night when I thought all was lost I was surprised to find one still alive. I thought it was a lost cause to be honest and the reas...
Monday, September 17, 2012

5th Grade ELP Interest Inventory

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Last week I shared the results from the interest inventory of my 4th grade class. Today I wanted to share the results from my 5th grade clas...