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First Day Activities
Started Aug 12, 2009
If you could design your ideal school, what would it look like?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by MIchael Gerber Jul 2, 2009.
Best Movies Involving Education
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jennifer Perino May 30, 2009.
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Dan Mindich commented on Toni Weingartner Vladimirova's blog post Evaluating my Student's First Quarter Progress...Dan Mindich left a comment for Tamara Pellicier Padilla"Hi Tamara,
I removed the spammer from the site. Thanks for letting me know (and then I got the message as well).
Dan"
Dan Mindich replied to Kimberly's discussion Short Story for Freshmen"Hey Kimberly,
I'm not sure if you guys use this book somewhere else in the curriculum, but the "My Name" passage from House on Mango Street is a good short piece for the kids to analyze writing and they can write in her style (or not)…"
Dan Mindich posted a discussionFirst Day Activities
With school getting started, I thought it would be good to share some first day activity ideas.I don't like doing rules and regulations on the first day; I like to get into thinking about the issues we will be looking at and practicing the skills we will be using. I am also aware, however, of the fact that the kids are coming off of summer break, so their brains are seriously atrophied. For a Western Civ. class and then a American Studies class I taught for a bunch of years, we used to have the…See More
Dan Mindich left a comment for Art Belliveau"Hey Art,
Good to see you here. How have you been? I'd love to get some of your writing up on the main blog if you have something to share.
All the best,
Dan"
MIchael Gerber replied to Dan Mindich's discussion If you could design your ideal school, what would it look like?"It sounds amazing, but ironically, the school you describe is everywhere but the school itself. Mere travel restrictions imposed by liability alone.... don't get me started.
I taught in Thailand for a year, and they are way more relaxed about…"
Jennifer Perino replied to Dan Mindich's discussion Best Movies Involving Education"I will have to say my favorite movie involving education is The Power of One with a very young Stephen Dorff & Morgan Freeman. It focuses on the importance of education and using the real world to educate a child. Learning is a tool to freedom."
"I saw the French movie "The Class" a few weeks ago. It's definitely the best movie about teaching and schools that I've ever seen, despite its awfully bland English title. It's amazingly realistic, and gets right into issues…"
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Here is another one I like by Liz Foster
Every summer I feel vague guilt about work undone, deep thoughts not thought, words not written. And even in summer I have dreams about school. This past summer was particularly haunted by my principal's invitation to share with the rest of the faculty of our high school a little "about what we value most about our vocation as teachers." These are my notes toward that sharing.
1. Thank you, Kevin, for focusing yet another summer for me. You've given me some weeks of hyper-alertness,… Continue
1. Thank you, Kevin, for focusing yet another summer for me. You've given me some weeks of hyper-alertness,… Continue
Posted on November 2, 2008 at 11:29am — 1 Comment
FacultyShack Blasts from the Past. Here is one from good old Mr. Alden
As we start this project and following Carl's lead, I was thinking about FacultyShack pieces I have enjoyed, and while there are many, this one and a few others come to mind.
Dear Mr. Alden,
Have you ever read the classic book Black Like Me? Well, I have an idea. I think we should send some our nation's top leaders of industry, academia etc. into the schools of America and have them apply for teaching jobs. The result we would already know. They would be… Continue
Dear Mr. Alden,
Have you ever read the classic book Black Like Me? Well, I have an idea. I think we should send some our nation's top leaders of industry, academia etc. into the schools of America and have them apply for teaching jobs. The result we would already know. They would be… Continue
Posted on November 2, 2008 at 11:00am
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 5:05pm on April 13, 2009,
Maureen said… - Hi,
I'm hanging in there ... 3Q comments were due today. Survived those. Ben is a cool office-mate. I'm sure he misses you desperately!
How's school and West Coast life?
- At 11:45am on October 21, 2008,
Hazen Devine said…
- Hi Dan. How's it going? When you said you were off to learn "cool stuff" I thought I detected a note of sarcasm. Then I thought, nah -- he must really be learning real cool stuff.
- At 10:44pm on October 17, 2008,
Derek Miyahara said… - When did you come back?
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