http://www.makemymood.com/2009/09/09/how-to-teach-chemistry/

Go ahead and learn as fast as you want. Thanks, elfs!

Meowse's brother Chris, who has worked directly with Ron Davis in his dyslexia correction methods, adds the following clarification & expansion of my previous post on dyslexia. In case my previous post wasn't sufficiently clear about it, I'm not claiming that my extremely abbreviated adaptation of one technique can fix dyslexia by itself, nor that it is ( Read more... )

Well, I've been fixing his dyslexia for the past year and a half, by means of teaching him the sounds of letters & letter combinations, and the specific skills of putting them together, and the necessary phonetically irregular sight words, and how to read fluently once he's got the words--in other words, by teaching him to read, despite his ( Read more... )

Teacher makes a class with a high plagiarism rate do real research for publication--in their favorite plagiarism source, Wikipedia.

Praise their persistence, not their intelligence. Whole article well worth reading.

Research does not, in fact, support often-made claims about benefits of homework...despite ubiquitous declarations that it does!

Thanks for the link, Meowse.

High school teacher gets buy-in from the Sweat Hogs

Some things I've learned today:
1.) Not all bamboo spreads uncontrollably like the stuff I'm familiar with. Clumping varieties stay within a more confined area, making them more appealing options for gardening & landscaping, and just as suitable for food, fiber & building materials, and general planty goodness. (and someone has cloned it)2.) ( Read more... )

More from Taylor Mali, the man in the "What Do Teachers Make?" video. He seems to be both a terrific middle school teacher and the world's best slam poet. And he rocks. As you look at his web page, be sure to notice what happens to the menu selections as you mouse over them.

Tony Steinberg, Seventh-grade Viking