My kids’ daycare sends home flyers every so often advertising this program or that that our kids can participate in beyond what the normal tuition fee covers – pull-out classes for music, gymnastics; that sort of thing. The other day a flyer came home advertising a dance class. There was…
Category: Reflection
Words Mean Things
Seen on the front page of a test protocol this morning: two sections for collecting demographic information on a student. Section I (to be filled out by professional): Section II (to be filled out by teacher): I’ll just leave this here for you to do with what you will.
Blogging for Better Behavior
From the psychology 101/”self-help” files: Two years ago I blogged about my attempts to change an undesired behavior of mine using some pretty basic behavior management techniques. This evening, I’m going to come at this from another angle: increasing desired behavior through blogging. “Journaling”, or writing down reflections & analyses…
NJEA 2009: Teach > Tech
It’s been over a week since my two-day presenting stint at the New Jersey Education Association‘s annual statewide teacher’s convention in Atlantic City, and I have to say that, my crippling sinus infection notwithstanding, it was an incredible experience. Credit must be given where it’s due: I think the organizers…
Money On Their Minds, Part II
As I mentioned last time, New Jersey has revised its high school graduation requirements, mandating the teaching of financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy starting in 2010. In that post, I talked a bit about Internet-based high-interest checking and savings accounts. Here are two more suggestions for young folks who…