Creating Lifelong Learners

It’s been an honor and a pleasure to find these gems from the edublogosphere this week in this the It’s October 1st, Are You Sick of Halloween Yet? edition of the Carnival of Education.

Classroom Management or How to Deal With Students Coming Down From a Halloween Sugar High…

Elona Hartjes reminds us that a Positive Attitude is Key to Maintaining a Positive Classroom Environment.

No Trick or Treater Left Behind

NCLB:  Looking Backward and Forward in eduwonkette.

Teachers to the Rescue! Is it always a problem when students don’t understand? asks Mark Pullen.

Can We Even Reach Every Student? asks Joel in So You Want to Teach.

Courage, Do You Have It? in the Reading Workshop discusses what it takes for students to face failure and still succeed.

Some districts give high test score credit to students who don’t even show up! in the Core Knowledge Blog.

Things To Do Instead of Trick or Treating…

The Trash Can Game:  Teach Kids to Reduce Trash by Judy Sommers.

Make Ice Cream or at least give students the skills they need to be the ice cream makers of the future by Diane Weir.

Make Lemonade.

Play Some Video Games, or wait, will it make kids more or less obese than eating Halloween candy?  Sharp Brains weighs in and then offers Brain Teasers for when you’re done.

Get Philosophical with Miss Profe.

Get a Master’s Degree in Right on the Left Coast.

I Found A Piece of Educational Technology in my Candy…

Larry Ferlazzo, dressed as a top ten list for Halloween this year, presents the Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education in 2008.

Tech & Te(a)ch Is edtech helping or hurting? asks Travis a Wittwer.

Tom Woodward had something to say about this too in There Are No Shortcuts.

Scott McLeod surveys to find out if we’ve made any progress in technology integration since last year.

Thanks to Skype, Pat’s No Longer on the Outside Looking In.

Mark Graybill tries out open source operating systems in class and reports the results.

Trick or Treat or Math and Science…

SteveSpangler (the cool science experiments guy) tells us how to make Giant Soap Bubbles.

The Science Goddess is back from being AWOL to ask What Is the Purpose of Teaching Science?

Mrs. Bluebird asks Science Lab to Stay After Class.

Nucleus Learning tells us How to Teach Science.

Math Is Fun Too

Green Eggs and Math. Mister Teacher  hates open-ended questions.

Bobbing for Votes

A Mathematician for President (hint: he’s not currently running), the story of James Garfield by Let’s Play Math.

Election 2008:  A Lesson on Media Bias by the Tempered Radical

Scary Costumes

Grades:  A Necessary Evil by Travis A Wittwer who trick-or-treated by this carnival twice.

Tweenteacher finds herself in a passionate battle between angry fans of the Twilight novels and asks what her role is in the debate? Then she reviews Breaking Down by Stephanie Meyer.

Reign of Terror in NYC Educator.

Instincts in Under Assault:  Teaching in NYC.

Trick or Treaters Who Can’t Get Along…

Is TSL the Answer? Should we reduce Total Student Loads? asks Joanne Jacobs.

Essential Conflict in Leader Talk argues that a little conflict is just what the field of education needs.

Old Andrew reports on the second part of his Holiday from Hell.

The Real Job of Socialization in Life Without Schools

Education Problem Solving 101 by Dave Saba

Law Vibe reports on NYU Students Paying Cash for Class.

In this corner, learning styles are important…now fight it out…enjoy the match at Lead from the Start.

Students suspended for a barbecue in the school parking lot.

$700 Billion Dollar Candy Bailout

Blues, Basements, and Bailouts: A kid’s eye view of the crisis and other thoughts from Bellringers.

The Culture of No Fail Failure, History is Elementary, asks if we’ve sunk to the point where we no longer allow failure.

Wholesome Costumes

Family values in my home town by Nancy Flanagan.

After the Candy

How Do You Still Love Teaching (Let Me Count the Ways?) asks Tracey Rosen.

A Musical Interlude

Are First Act Musical Instruments Worth the Price? asks Thomas J. West.

Bill Cowher’s Piano Lessons

Trick or Treating Without Leaving the House:  Homeschooling

Homeschool Memoirs

Does Anyone Still Read Books Anymore?

Jane Goodwin does.  How about that jacob in Sarah, Plain and Tall?

And the story of The Milkman.

And that’s all folks!  Submit an article to the next carnival here.

Welcome to 156th Edition of the Carnival of Education and to my blog, Creating Lifelong Learners.

It’s my first time hosting and there is a lot to read and enjoy this week. Thank you to everyone who contributed. Submit an article to the next carnival.

Enjoy!

Technology in the Classroom

Kevin Hodsgon, writing teacher, blogger, and rock star reflects on Two Weeks of Teaching Tech in his Meandering Mind.

Larry Ferlazzo presents The Best Web Sites for Helping Beginning Readers.

The Tempered Radical wants teachers to stop whining and excuse making and pick up some new tech tools.

Eric Koshinsky gives a list of ten things you can do with just one computer in your classroom.

Technology Matters suggests blogging as a new way of teaching writing.

Academhack offers many ways of using Twitter in the classroom.

Scenes from the Trenches

Jose in The Jose Vilson responds to a student’s coming out in Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Scenes from the Battleground presents Ammunition, a post about what to do if your students have a problem with throwing things.

Not all students like ice cream, some prefer to just eat lunch with their teacher in We Don’t All Scream for Ice Cream by Mister Teacher.

A rough but amusing week for Carol Richmeier in Afghanistan, Channeling Forest Gump, and Uh-oh.

A strange week for Miss Profe in It’s A (Hardknock) Teacher’s Life, Discombobulated.

Wishing, Praying, and Hoping in Ms. Bluebird’s classroom where they’re learning about weather.

Don’t Give Up

The Boy Who Couldn’t Write, a story of finding what works for a seven year old who won’t write, by Robin in Life Without School

Bad Neighbors from What It’s Like on the Inside is about not giving up on the students who everyone else has left behind.

Tamara Eden is disappointed in her students and addresses them in a letter.

Content Specific

Learning At Home looks at Greening Up Your Curriculum.

An alternative to Science Fairs, The Montreal Science Olympics by Bogusia Glaris.

Setting Up Your Class to Teach Social Studies by Noirlecroi.

How Should We Teach Arithemetic? by Denise in Let’s Play Math.

Chanman examines the bias and revisionism that goes into writing history textbooks in Textbook Trickery in Buckhorn Road.

Educational Theory and Policy

Eduwonkette examines how we view data and how it drives instruction in D3M Box Scores: Incentivists: 10, Instructionists: 1.

Living By Learning asks Do Schools Value the Gifted and Talented?

Nick Pernisco of UnderstandMedia.com asks Why teachers don’t teach Media Literacy in their classrooms?

John Holland reflects on a Martin Luther King lesson gone right (or wrong?)

Cash for Studying by Joanne Jacobs examines a study to see if paying low-income students for good test scores works.

Henry Cate of Why Homeschool? examines the educational beliefs of 1909.

Pat Hensley asks What Does Administrative Support Mean?

Troubles in teacher ed are examined in Passion, or Lack Thereof in Ed Schools by Edudiva.

Mark Pullen reminds us of the Importance of Recess.

Educational Politics

Homework Time in Under Assault reminds us we’ve got work to do to choose a candidate.

NYC Educator takes Mayor Bloomberg to task for asking principals to replicate his vision in The Vision Thing.

Mayoral Control and the Question for Albany by Seth Pierce in the NYC Students Blog.

The Usual Political Blabbering takes a look at teachers striking in Jeruselum for smaller class sizes.

Archvillain feels public schooling is a sinkhole in Class Warfare.

Mississippi’s Messing Up a Good Thing And Failing to Fix a Bad One in Life on the Planet.

The Real True Facts Behind the DOE Teacher Value-Added Project by Steve Perez in Edwize.

American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence reflects on a DOE meeting in Education Moving Forward.

Right on the Left Coast: Views From A Conservative Teacher by Darren.

Matt Johnston offers A Pox on Both Their Houses: A Worthless Debate About Educational Reform.

Ken DeRosa thinks It’s Time to Spot the Looney.

No Substitutions

Nancy Flanagan asks for No Substitutions remarking on how teacher absences lead to lower test scores.

Holly in Education Choices offers the Substitute Teacher Survival Kit.

Too Cool for School

Behind the Scenes of Rate My Professor.com is Michael Arnzen’s interesting examination of the web site phenom.

Brain Fitness

Sharp Brains asks you to asks Is Your Brain Fit? and offers a peek inside your brain to see what’s going on in there.

Financial Fitness (Or Lack Thereof)

The Overpaid Teacher examines what teachers really make by Ryan in I Thought a Think.

Campus Groto examines Student Loan Debt.

Miscellaneous

The Bard Blog cautions us against misreading Shakespeare in Now is NOT the Winter of Our Discontent.

Personality of Teaching examines mistakes made when asking students for comments.

FruitPunch Diary offers how to study for a test (hint, study everything)

American Consumer News posts on General Mills Box Tops for Children.

Great College Advice advises on how many extracurricular activities students should engage in.

That’s All Folks!

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