teaching resources
Guts, gore, law and bore: seeing love in the OT
...urney with. I used to dread reading it; honestly, I thought it was something to be endured until you reached the good bit (Jesus). When I actually did read it I discovered some absolutely gorgeous bits that I would then read repeatedly: Psalms, Proverbs, adventures and amazing role models. If I'm honest I would skip past or skim read the guts, gore, law and all the stuff that bored me. It ...
Call for Head to go? Crisis as new Academy is in special measures
...ot achieve as well as they should. Students’ performance in their best eight subjects at the end of Key Stage 4 has declined over the last three years. In many subjects other than English and mathematics, attainment is too low and progress too slow in relation to students’ above average starting points on entry to the school. Teaching and the use of assessment are inadequate in securing consis...
How is a Kansas middle school like a California high school?
...eels like your story too. That happens to me occasionally and today I made a wonderful discovery...Leslie Moitoza is someone I've never met but we have the same quandry. Don't you love that word.....it's what she used to describe the decision she had to make. She said this... It started with a quandary. As a veteran writing teacher, I was struggling, feeling caught i...
Tapestry Review Part 1: The Lower Grammar Years
...s so well-organized, I don't spend more than 10-15 minutes planning for a week. Our library system has copious historical resources for Kathryn's learning level, but I don't have to look through all of them while trying not to lose the 3-year-old (who is very good at getting lost). Instead, I can place holds at the library on books that I already know will be excellent because they are listed in T...
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Worth repeating: Knicker knots
...y discussion about homeschooling and using resources and teachers in co-ops and other settings. Allow me a related aside, okay? The priest who led the Pre-Cana group meeting my husband and I attended nearly twenty-six years ago, asked the participants to divide themselves roughly in half. A dozen couples scooched to one side of the room while the rest of us remain seated. "Yeah," he said. "...
Roller coasters can be fun.
...d be great, professors like this. And I urge you, cultivate relationships with those professors who care, are wise, and are willing to offer guidance. Stay after class. Ask them about their life/academic/professional experiences. Let them know who you are. Express why you are pursuing what you are pursuing. Build relationships. But first you need to get clear about who you are, and what you...
How Far Can We Go?
... and hawed, or, even worse, was wildly enthusiastic for Purity! There seemed to be no happy medium between either rigid guidelines that seemed designed to minimize contact between a couple, or hazy exhortations to purity that gave one no practical guidance in the matter of a relationship rooted in reality. After the discussion following this post about the proper level of physical interaction be...
Tags: book review, sexuality
Virtual Community, Collectives, and Play: The Culture of New Learning
...Estes, Douglas. SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. 2009. Gee, James Paul. What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Gibson, William. Distrust This Particular Flavor. Putna...
Tennessee Schools to Enhance STEM Programs with $50,000 in Funding from the Verizon Foundation
...t held before 2012 TCAP testing that promotes interactive math learning opportunities for fifth grade students. William James Middle School Funding will allow four educators in the STEM disciplines to attend the "2012 STEM Trek: Journey to the Next Generation" conference. Verizon Thinkfinity.org resources are aligned to state and national standards and offer elementary through high school tea...
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How to teach 3 social studies units covering over half a century in 4 weeks: A 5th Grade Glogster Project
...lso showed them how to search the databases found in Georgia’s Galileo collection. My paraprofessional took the topics and searched through our print collection. If a book matched one group’s topic, she put a post-it with their names on the book. If a book spanned multiple topics, she put it in a shared stack. To begin our journey, I briefly introduced the pathfinder, graphic organizers...
Tags: information literacy, research, standards, technology, web 2.0, 5th grade
Tribal Church Lead Small, Impact Big by Steve Stroope with Kurt Bruner Foreword by Rick Warren
...n shore of Lake Ray Hubbard. Although this small fellowship began meeting in a former bait house, they believed God would do mighty things in and through their ministry, which would come to be known as Lake Pointe Church. Six months later, when I came as their first pastor, they had grown to an average weekly attendance of almost sixty people, if you counted children in the nursery and ...
Tags: author- kurt bruner, author- steve stroope, genre- nonfiction, genre- leadership, 2012, genre- ministry
Reconciliation: Answerability Inside and Out: The Missing Archives of the Inuit Art Knowledge Community
..., Ruth B. Phillips, Ted J. Brasser, Judy Thompson, Bernadette Driscoll, and Martine J. Reid. 1987. The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada‘s First Peoples.Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Hiller, Susan. 1991. The Myth of Primitivism: Perspectives on Art.London andNew York: Routledge. Holly, Michael Ann. 1997. Art Theory,Johns Hopkins University Press. Howard-Hassman, Rhoda E. 2002.
Tags: anthropology, memory, memory work, reflexivity, sociology, visual arts
Join Discovery Education at TCEA!
...3:30 PM Faster, Better, Shorter, Deeper: Editing and Capturing Video Presented by Hall Davidson Location: Convention Center, Ballroom F 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM iThink iNeed iPads in the Classroom Presented by Steve Dembo Location: Convention Center, Ballroom F 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Mashed Media: Old media, New Web, and Your Own Great Stuff Presented by Hall Davidson Location: Convention Cen...
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Tribal Church Lead Small, Impact Big by Steve Stroope with Kurt Bruner Foreword by Rick Warren {Preview}
...hole body of Christ mobilized to share His love with a lost and dying world. Please do not write off my encouragement to you as gift projection on my part. While I realize that not all of us have the specific spiritual gift of evangelism, all of us are commanded to be witnesses. In fact, Jesus said prior to His ascension that all of us would be witnesses (Acts 1:8). The only question that remains ...
Tags: books, chapter previews, non fiction
February 18, 2012
...l three NASA units. The Mars cut has upset space scientists and their managers on both sides of the Atlantic, and it is sure to be the main topic when NASA officials face their advisory Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group in Washington next week. It will also be an issue when NASA defends its request in Congress. Click here. (2/18) Future of Space Transportation (Source: Air Force Space Comman...
Daily Devotional Friday 17th February
...s a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads. 13 “‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. 14 “‘If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among ...
Links, Jobs, & Announcements #59
...pplications for its 2012 Summer Internship Program. Celebrating its 23rd year, the OCA Internship Program seeks to cultivate future leadership by providing students from all over the country an opportunity to be involved in the political process through one of the largest national advocacy organization for APAs. The program has successfully led past interns to become more actively involved in the...
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Homeschool Showcase #88
...re I get into this week’s Homeschool Showcase, I want to remind you all of the two giveaways I’m running – one here on WUHS and one on my fitness blog, Eclipsed. You can enter to win a Bible study book here and the complementing cookbook on Eclipsed. Today is the last day to enter! Now, onto the Showcase… Misty offers the first in a series of ideas on How to Get your Kids to do Their S...
Dean's Update – 2/6/12
...ong campuses in providing international experiences for prospective teachers. Each college/school and international office will need to identify which of the following four groups are important to their efforts to internationalize teacher education. That means that a college/school or international office may want to work on one or two of the groups below. If you are interested in participating ...
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How to Build a Successful Blog the Unconventional Way
... the shortcut. It doesn’t pay in the long run. There is nothing like an effortless push button system; there’s nothing like the lazy man’s guide to overnight success. The earlier you get rid of the overnight success mentality; the better for you. Success in any endeavor requires discipline, commitment, investment and time. Nothing more, nothing less. Rule 8. Love your work; not the tool
Tags: blogging, make money online, the net