Stupid, accurate graph!
That's about right.
posted by notawidget @ 11:30 PM
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I'm a 24-year-old Minnesota native who graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a Journalism BA. I then spent a year working for peanuts at an education non-profit in DC as an Americorps*VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America). I worked closely with several low-income public schools, and that experience inspired me to want to teach in one. I created this blog to chronicle my first year as a New York City Public School teacher and as a Teach for America corps member.
About Me
- Name: notawidget
I am a former NYC Teach for America corps member who now teachers at a high-performing, low-income charter school in Cleveland, and I am not a widget.
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Betty Tesh here with a few hints for New Teachers...
You're going to be a great teacher. You've got knowledge, enthusiasm, desire, motivation. What you don't have is experience.
And experience makes the difference between a potentially great teacher and a comfortably great teacher.
We've got over 68 combined years of experience to share, which is what we've done in...
"The Handy-Dandy Desktop Mentor."
No esoteric teaching methods. No field studies or carefully calibrated experiments. Just down-to-earth, helpful hints and suggestions to help you survive your first (few) years as a teacher.
We warn you about common pitfalls, give suggestions for getting along with fellow teachers, toss out a few classroom management techniques, offer advice on dealing with parents, and share secrets on organizing some of that "stuff" you've suddenly acquired.
If what you want is dull, dry treatise on pedagogy, or if you need a heavy meal of ibids and op.cits laced with quotes from learned professors of education, this book's not for you. It's quick and easy reading, a bit light-hearted, but as serious as an air strike about helping you bet the teacher you know you were meant to be.
A handbook for initially licensed, novice and beginning teachers that shares classroom management ideas, tips for getting along with educational personnel, suggestions for dealing with parents, and advice that good mentoring
teachers share for success in the classroom, written with humor by experienced educators.
As a new teacher, you won’t be doing battle with a supreme Evil like Sauron or traveling into the Cracks of Doom like Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, but like those two Hobbits, you are ‘expected to find a way...’ (Book IV, Chpt. 3) A way to make learning fun, but keep control of the classroom; a way to reach thirty different children with thirty different learning styles, a way to teach whole-heartedly while fielding a barrage of forms, procedures, expectations and instructions.
"The Handy-Dandy Desktop Mentor." is available at my site for New Teachers.
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Hello JLeeK
Thanks for leaving your blog open to comments.
I always like to live a little "tidbit" of information, hopefully helpful and hopefully something that will make you think - and act.
This one is short and sweet, and I'll bet you haven't done (or done recently ), but after looking at your blog I'm pretty sure you will at least take some action, because you seem like a smart person.
Set New Goals.
Do you have any old ones written down? Have you set life goals?
Most people don't.
You will if you use some of the FREE information at Lifetime Goals
Have A Happy New Year!
HELLO JLeeK
Teaching
I like to leave little "helps" after reading a good blog, or going over the blog comments, just to start people thinking about, well, everything.
2006 is just around the corner.
Thought about what you would like to achieve next year?
Did you do all you wanted to do this year, personally, professionally and perhaps spiritually?
My guess is; probably not. Most people don't know how to set workable goals and if they do, the don't know how to manage them.
When is the last time you actually took time to write down all you would like to do and accomplish in life? Or even a few of the small things you would like to do but didn't think would be possible?
We all have the potential to get almost anything we want out of life. It just takes a little work, thinking and action.
The first step is knowing how to set effective goals and then of course, how to follow up on them. That's the hard part. Following up.
How would you like to actually make this years New Years Resolution come true? Of course it would have to be attainable, and possible, but you could do it if you knew how.
Curious?
Use the FREE information @ How To Set Goals and have a really GREAT NEW YEAR.
All the BEST!
Is there a way to stop blog spam? It's really obnoxious.
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