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By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand.

To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. Muriel Spark

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge

Whenever there is a confrontation in class there is a winner and a loser. Obviously as the teacher, you need to keep order and discipline in your class. However, it is much better to deal with discipline issues privately than cause a student to 'lose face' in front of their friends. It is not a good idea to make an example out of a disciplinary issue. Even though other students might get the point, you might have lost any chance of actually teaching that student anything in your class.

tes for students to refer to when they have extra minutes. List ideas on 3×5 notecards

velopment will keep your teaching fresh, current, and will remind you of what it is like to learn something new. Teachers who are continually learning make empathetic teachers, they understand how frustrating it can be to learn something for the first time.

White House Scandals

"Yes I want to learn but can't when I work all the time.

boys and girls were so small they had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads and to put back the empty bobbins

boy had shown him the marks on his arm where his father had bitten him for not selling more papers. He (the boy) said, "Drunken men say bad words to us.

Overview "… then there is nothing left me but to go and see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths…" --Robert E. Lee, April 9, 1865 The Civil War still holds the distinction of being the bloodiest in American History. It all came to an end, however, in the parlor of Wilmer McLean’s home at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, in April, 1865. While the war may have been bloody, the terms given by General Ulysses S. Grant to Robert E. Lee for the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia were extremely generous. In this activity, students will analyze these terms, as well as the events leading to Lee’s surrender, by investigating Grant’s own memoirs of this time.

5. Keep yourself organized

7. Get to know your students

8. Work smarter not harder.

Asking Questions and Making Predictions Generating questions re: topic, genre, author/audience, purpose, etc. Finding a focus/directing attention Predicting what will happen next

MOOCs

Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times, has been a fervent messenger on the promise of MOOCs

Evidence for the effectiveness of MOOCs remains thin, if nonexistent. Some advocates believe that the promise of MOOCs lies in adopting what is called a hybrid approach to teaching, which combines online and in-person methods.