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ursoteachable: As a teacher I have been guilty of calling on the student that I believe may know the answer to keep up with the rigor and the pace of my lesson. I create call-on-me-sticks at the beginning of each year now. This way I know that I am being fair and not teaching to the middle. Sometimes I grab a stick and think, wow I would have never picked her for this. I am usually pleasantly surprised with the chosen students reaction to the question or task. (Other times I want to punch myself). I am glad I have my sticks! Try it… Love this!

ursoteachable:

As a teacher I have been guilty of calling on the student that I believe may know the answer to keep up with the rigor and the pace of my lesson. I create call-on-me-sticks at the beginning of each year now. This way I know that I am being fair and not teaching to the middle. Sometimes I grab a stick and think, wow I would have never picked her for this. I am usually pleasantly surprised with the chosen students reaction to the question or task. (Other times I want to punch myself). I am glad I have my sticks! Try it…

Love this!

tea-and-misanthropy: baileythebookworm: sparkamovement: whoneedsfeminism: My daughters should not have a truck grabbed out of their hands by an adult and handed to a male cousin because, “This is a boy toy anyway.” My son shouldn’t be ridiculed because his favorite color is pink.   Y E S  And also is that kid wearing a TARDIS t-shirt? These kids are my favorite people right now.  i work in a major retail store that, while not selling toys, sells a fuckton of children’s clothes and accessories. every time i have to cashier by the kids’ section, i have a headache by the time i clock out from spending hours seething with rage over gendered clothing that we sell, over parents who won’t buy their daughter an umbrella because it’s spongebob and not dora, over the fact that boys get sunglasses and hats and backpacks marketed to them while girls get disney princess makeup sets, over the way that the girls’ section is entirely devoid of anything having to do with pixar’s cars or the avengers or basically anything that’s not cinderella and sleeping beauty or justin bieber, over the disgustingly noticeable absence of black widow from all of the avengers shirts and merchandise. everything about it is fucked up.

tea-and-misanthropy:

baileythebookworm: sparkamovement: whoneedsfeminism:

My daughters should not have a truck grabbed out of their hands by an adult and handed to a male cousin because, “This is a boy toy anyway.”

My son shouldn’t be ridiculed because his favorite color is pink.  

Y E S 

And also is that kid wearing a TARDIS t-shirt? These kids are my favorite people right now. 

i work in a major retail store that, while not selling toys, sells a fuckton of children’s clothes and accessories. every time i have to cashier by the kids’ section, i have a headache by the time i clock out from spending hours seething with rage over gendered clothing that we sell, over parents who won’t buy their daughter an umbrella because it’s spongebob and not dora, over the fact that boys get sunglasses and hats and backpacks marketed to them while girls get disney princess makeup sets, over the way that the girls’ section is entirely devoid of anything having to do with pixar’s cars or the avengers or basically anything that’s not cinderella and sleeping beauty or justin bieber, over the disgustingly noticeable absence of black widow from all of the avengers shirts and merchandise. everything about it is fucked up.

(via think4yourself)

I’m spending the next two weeks in a year 2/3 class. They are so cute! It’s a completely different world to secondary school/teaching.

Free websites help boost student engagement, teacher productivity | eSchool News

teachingliteracy:

Cash-strapped schools can’t stop giving students the resources they need to learn and develop 21st century skills simply because budgets are tight. Luckily, educators can turn to free online resources to help them find and organize lesson plans, give students extra help in various subjects, and more.

During a webinar on EdWeb.net, an educational social networking site for teachers and administrators, presenter Shannon Holden, a former teacher and assistant principal, and adjunct instructor at Lindenwood University and Missouri State University, shared a number of free online resources to help educators take advantage of what the internet has to offer.

Many educators “don’t know where to start” when it comes to finding, learning about, and really using free online resources, Holden said. “Most people just do not have the time to learn all of these technology tools,” he added.

Holden suggested that those educators pick one or two websites of interest and start exploring them. Users can turn to YouTube for website tutorials if they need help.

“Don’t wait for the next big thing in technology before you jump in–there’s always going to be a next big thing,” he said. “It’s just amazing that all this stuff is free, and we don’t use it because we don’t have time to find it.”

Here is a round-up of Holden’s web recommendations:

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Team Teachers: Summer Book Club?

teamteachers:

I will happily host another summer book club this summer if there at least 10 people that commit to buy or borrow the book and participate. I’d also be looking for someone interested in splitting the duties of coming up with discussion questions with me.

Please let me know what you think…

Keen :)

(via radinglish)

I’m going back to school this week!!!! I couldn’t be more excited. I’m going to act as a teacher aide for one of my mentor teachers. Fingers crossed I will actually get to teach a little bit as well.