My girlfriend’s mom never let her have video games because she warned her, “you’ll rot your brain.” Well, it’s happened we just bought a Wii. Our brains are gone. Fried. Even Barack Obama just warned me on CNN that I better “turn off the video games and start demanding excellence.” I’m not a video gamer. …
Tag: education
Classroom Management: The Teacher’s Voice
My readers, I’m sure, have excellent classroom management. However, you may be called upon to help out a brand-new colleague or an overwhelmed veteran next door. I have a theory that much of a classroom’s success all depends on the teacher’s voice. Pitch Think low. Student teachers I’ve worked with who have poor classroom management …
Gifted Education and Equity
Elona, a Canadian middle school special education teacher and author of Teachers At Risk, writes today about the inequity of excluding special education students from activities designated for gifted students.I’d like to think these things happen only in Canada but they don’t. I’ve written before about how technology tools like movie making are often saved …