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saveroomminibar: Gaming Bento Boxes

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:19:50 -0700

Gaming Bento Boxes

thetinkertoyboy: raetherandom: BIkers Against Child Abuse...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:22:39 -0700

raetherandom:

BIkers Against Child Abuse Helps Make Abused Children Feel Safe Again

“A biker’s power and intimidating image can even the playing field for a little kid who has been hurt. If the man who hurt this little girl calls or drives by, or even if she is just scared, another nightmare, the bikers will ride over and stand guard all night.

If she is afraid to go to school, they will take her and watch until she’s safely inside.

And if she has to testify against her abuser in court, they will go, too, walking with her to the witness stand and taking over the first row of seats.”

During one such testimony, a little boy sat on the stand, testifying against his abusive father, who sat less than 10 feet away.

“Why didn’t you say anything before now?” Asked the prosecutor.

“I was scared.” The little boy replied, honestly.

“Why aren’t you scared now, what changed?” The prosecutor watched the little boy closely as he pointed to the front row of seats in the court room.

“Because my friends are scarier than he is.”

Food for thought…..Not all intimidating looking people are insensitive to innocent pain.

artofoverwhelm: Bernard Pras. So many colorful packages make...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:16:26 -0700

artofoverwhelm:

Bernard Pras.

So many colorful packages make one interesting visual piece.

So cozy.

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:15:52 -0700

So cozy.

birdandmoon: Happy spring, nature lovers! Here’s this comic on...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:14:20 -0700

birdandmoon:

Happy spring, nature lovers! Here’s this comic on my site.

mixedupdays: One of many “vocab” stations! I have this hung low...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:13:37 -0700

mixedupdays:

One of many “vocab” stations! I have this hung low on the wall so students can grab word cards for spelling purposes when they are writing, too. They *love* this station, to the point where the more popular word cards are getting a bit trashed.

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:12:36 -0700

nevver: Starry Night using Hubble’s images How could he have...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:11:03 -0700

nevver:

Starry Night using Hubble’s images

How could he have known?

from-student-to-teacher: I may just have fallen in love with...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:07:29 -0700

from-student-to-teacher:

I may just have fallen in love with this mathematics rhyme. This is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So cute!

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Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:44:23 -0700

Revolutionize Education: I asked every single one of my students today how they were doing or how their day was going as I called roll today.

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:42:07 -0700

Revolutionize Education: I asked every single one of my students today how they were doing or how...

let-me-bleed: In my Sociology class, we had to write every...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:40:28 -0700

let-me-bleed:

In my Sociology class, we had to write every hurtful word we’ve ever been called on a sticky note and then stick it to our body. We then went around and took them off of each other. Most of us in tears…this is the aftermath.

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:38:16 -0700

disquietingtruths: Student-Loan Debt. Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance. Schools That...

girlwithalessonplan: itssnix: incogeeko: student2teacher: N...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:37:23 -0700

girlwithalessonplan:

itssnix:

incogeeko:

student2teacher:

NOISE…removing one letter at a time when our voice level gets too loud. When NO is left, there is NO more talking!

Love this! A lot more clearer than just putting up strikes on the board or letting the noise escalate to a point where you just cut off talking. It also gives the kids a chance to regain control of their noise before it gets to that point.

I really wish I had one consistent classroom instead of four different ones where I could easily establish something like this because I feel it could be quite valuable, particularly with my juniors as I have rowdy classes.

I’d much rather facilitate the students showing some initiative rather than having to take a more authoritarian approach to gaining a quiet classroom.

Can I just play Devil’s Advocate here? If I ever did this with a group of sophomores, much less juniors, they’d laugh in my face.

Does anyone else know of high school teachers who successfully use structured classroom discipline tools like this? I don’t mean structured rules, I mean tools like these.

I teach freshmen and juniors and the only trick I do is “If you can hear me clap [#]”. And even then it’s usually only used on my freshmen. My juniors quiet up with, “alrghty, folks!” After a bell.

world-shaker: 10 Ways To Start Using Skype In The Classroom A...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:35:20 -0700

world-shaker:

10 Ways To Start Using Skype In The Classroom

A great list if you click through. Here are three of the ten strategies:

7) Have a mystery call!
What is a mystery call, you ask? It’s simply a way for you to connect with another classroom in a different spot in the world … without having them tell you where they are. Students are then tasked with asking questions to figure out the location of that classroom. It’s like playing a geographic-based 20 questions!
8) Meet exchange students
The future is now. You can now find, meet, and get to know exchange students before they even make it to you in person. Skype is a fun way to figure out any potential problems or other questions, easing the arrival of the exchange student when they finally make it to your classroom or school.
9) Give students background tasks while Skyping
Share the responsibility of Skyping by giving students various tasks to perform while on the call. They can record the talk, blog about it, make a podcast, take notes, map out the discussion, or simply be charged with delivering a summary report on the call.

stfuconservatives: This kickass lady (and Kansas state...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:34:05 -0700

stfuconservatives:

This kickass lady (and Kansas state representative) really said that.

world-shaker: A Learning Science Alternative to Bloom’s...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:33:32 -0700

world-shaker:

A Learning Science Alternative to Bloom’s Taxonomy by Brenda Sugrue

For the pedagogically obsessed STEM educators. You know who you are.

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Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:33:14 -0700

A social studies teacher I met explained how he teaches a novel in a day...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:31:31 -0700

revolutionizeed: …he takes the novel and in front of the class rips it into enough pieces for every...

revolutionizeed: tomesaway: Once upon a time when I taught...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:28:40 -0700

There once was a dude named Othello

Whose temper was never quite mellow

His "best friend" was sly

His wifey did cry,

"Othello, you're one foolish fellow!"

There once was a girl named Des

Who got in a bit of a mess

She was loyal and true

But her husband strangled her too

Because his friend said "She's untrue!"

revolutionizeed:

tomesaway:

Once upon a time when I taught tenth grade English, I taught Othello.

One day I had a new box of Expo markers with lots of fancy colors, and all my papers were graded.

So I made a comic strip of the play on the whiteboard, and then the students made their own.

And three years later, they still remember the characters, the plot, and the thematic elements of the story.

Visual representations for the win!

Could do this with many different stories!