Are Flames Really Necessary? (0)
12/07/09 •
Last summer, I went on a pedagogy buying spree, and one I bought was Rafe Esquith’s Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56. Esquith is all the rage: after all, how many fifth grade teachers do Shakespeare with students after class?
There are some good ideas in there, and initially [...]
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Outrageous Court Decision (0)
12/07/09 •
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Doodling with Moodle (0)
12/05/09 •
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Startling Starters (0)
12/04/08 •
While doing a starter, one young man was confused about the meaning of the word “lavish.”
“Isn’t that what you put on hot dogs?” he asked.
A few days later, we were doing an exercise on homonyms during the starter. Students were to think of homonyms of a few selected words; one word was “packed.” Everyone got [...]
