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Kim Ammons

Talor Mali -- What Teachers Make -- Totally Clean for class - YouTube - 0 views

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    Taylor Mali performing by and large his most well-known piece: What Teachers Make.  A great thing for teachers (and students!) to listen to on a bad day to remind us why we got into this profession!
apejones

Crazy Teaching - Just doing what makes sense. - 2 views

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  • 1. Tardy passes.  The picture below represents all of the tardy passes I have received all semester, along with passes to the nurse and passes to assistant principals for discipline.  That stack represents a lot of lost learning time, especially when you realize that these passes are written for a lot of the same students over and over again.  If learning was really valued, there would be preventative action taken rather then just letting students be late and lose valuable learning time.
  • 2. Announcements during class time.  For the first four years of my teaching career, I worked in a district where it was in the contract that no announcements could be made during class time other than regularly scheduled announcements during a set period.  Consequently I started teaching not knowing the agony of having my class interrupted with announcements about homecoming, meetings, or sports cancellations, and then having student attention diverted to those topics rather than what they are supposed to learn.  I always hear about cell phones being a distraction to students, but random announcements that could have waited until another time (or be made in another way) during a class can be just as much of a distraction from the real reason students are in the building. 3. Letting students talk among themselves for the last 5 minutes of class.  I am known as the strict teacher because I believe in bell-to-bell instruction.  I only have 50 minutes a day to cause understanding in my students, and I want to use all of that time.  Some students and some teachers find this unreasonable of me.4. Pulling students out of class for things that are non-learning related.  This school year alone I had students pulled out of class to talk about sports participation opportunities and to do something for an extra-curricular activity that was supposed to be done after school.  I even had a student pulled out of my class during a test because another teacher simply demanded it.  Now, I'm not against sports or extra-curricular activities; I feel they are a valuable part of a student's school experience.  It's when they start to take priority over learning that I have a problem.
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    I like this girl, even if she's not a math teacher she is funny and I'll probably get some good teaching ideas from her.
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    Someone else bookmarked this, but I want it in my list.  Excellent resource for classroom setup and management.
mollygrace89

Sweeney Math - 0 views

  • Oh that awkward moment when someone wants to take a "fun" picture and no one knows what to do.
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    Teacher blog includes videos, twitter math camp and student interactions.
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    Lots of songs and fun activities!! Great blog by a great teacher!
Kim Ammons

No Rich Child Left Behind - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • But rising income inequality explains, at best, half of the increase in the rich-poor academic achievement gap. It’s not just that the rich have more money than they used to, it’s that they are using it differently. This is where things get really interesting. High-income families are increasingly focusing their resources — their money, time and knowledge of what it takes to be successful in school — on their children’s cognitive development and educational success. They are doing this because educational success is much more important than it used to be, even for the rich.
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    Once considered to be the "Great Equalizer," education is more and more becoming an institution that solidfies the status quo.  The achievement gap between the poor and the rich has only increased over the years, partly because of rising income inequality, but also partly because "high-income families are increasingly focusing their resources...on their children's cognitive development and educational success."  How can we as a nation and we as teachers try to close this gap?
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