Category Archives: teachers
Resolve to Improve Your Educational Community
As the end of December approaches, tens of millions of people develop New Year’s resolutions. We make resolutions about our physical form (i.e. diet or exercise), our personality (i.e. become more assertive or patient), our job (i.e. ask the boss for a promotion), or our intellectual breadth (i.e. read more books or take a class). [...]
A Holiday Gift for Your Child
It’s the holiday season, a time for giving and a time for receiving. Depending on our personality, we have either prepared all of our gifts and cards for everyone and have been ready to disseminate them for two weeks, or we are scrambling to meet the looming deadline. I would like to take this opportunity [...]
Professional Development
One of my favorite professional activities is running professional development for teachers. For two reasons: I love working with teachers and I love working with students. We offer two forms of professional development for teaching…. We do traditional in-service workshops for teachers where we come in and run interactive sessions on topics like aligning instruction [...]
The Profession of Education: A Teacher’s Perspective
A Chinese proverb says that if you want to remember someone for a year, you plant corn; if you want to remember someone for 10 years, you plant a tree; if you want to remember someone for 100 years, you educate. Teaching is an extraordinarily powerful profession. If you are not aware of just how [...]
Using Social Media in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Perspective
Social media has been a “hot topic” for the past couple of years. Individuals use it to connect with old friends and to communicate their daily lives into cyberspace. More and more companies are using Facebook and Twitter to promote their wares and brands. As a teacher, if you have not already started to use [...]