Posted on April 27, 2008 by teacherwriter
During the last two weeks in class, we discussed the concept of innovation. How do inventors think of new things? How does one go about developing a new idea? How are new inventions marketed? The students were very excited about creating their own new inventions and drawing prototypes on paper. I traversed the room, admiring [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by teacherwriter
Before we can teach how to write, we must know how to write, and write well. This is the hardest part of teaching. How can we critique a student’s writing and give effective feedback, if we don’t know writing well enough that we can make sense of what doesn’t work and why it doesn’t work? [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by teacherwriter
We had a math emergency at my house the other day. I teach math to fifth graders, and since my son has taken trigonometry and pre-calculus, I assumed that he and my husband could both handle everyday household math. I was wrong. Chaos ensued. We have very few vices in my household, but one [...]
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