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Hard Core English Teacher: A Super Simple Classroom Management Technique #1
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Hard Core English Teacher. Why be common core when you can be HARD CORE! Thursday, October 2, 2014. A Super Simple Classroom Management Technique #1. Getting a class full of students who want to volunteer to read or come to the board is a blessing for any teacher, but oftentimes it is a struggle to get students to put forth the effort of walking all the way to the front of the classroom (play sad violins here) or to read a whole paragraph aloud (more sad violins here). I have a few more little tricks up ...
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Red Pen of Doom: Dealing with Co-Teacher Conflict
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Red Pen of Doom. Teaching, travelling and tea. South Korea Bucket List. Care Package Wish List. Thursday, June 20, 2013. Dealing with Co-Teacher Conflict. So, like, I totally just sorted out the stuff that's been bugging me lately. I won't go into it on my blog; that would be inappropriate and tedious. Ain't nobody got time for that. So I've been deliberately obscure about it. It's not the point of this post. Did I call in the DMOE? No Did I talk to higher powers within the school? And by the end of the ...
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Red Pen of Doom: Daegu Maps
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Red Pen of Doom. Teaching, travelling and tea. South Korea Bucket List. Care Package Wish List. I've made two maps. Maybe when Google combines all the functions of Maps Engine and Google Maps together, I'll have one schnazzy up-to-date map. For now I'm only updating Map B. I know where I want to go but I can't find it in the maze:. Searchable by name. Sporadically updated. - map. I need to find a (Doctor/Hamburger/Gym/Hiking Path) but I haven't decided which one:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Couchsurfing...
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Hard Core English Teacher: The True Lord of the Flies Story?
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Hard Core English Teacher. Why be common core when you can be HARD CORE! Saturday, May 26, 2012. The True Lord of the Flies Story? I ran across this newspaper clipping that might be the true Lord of the Flies. Well, not really. I found a web site that allows you to create false newspaper clippings. It's a fun way to fool your students or to actually use in a project. Just have your kids write a newspaper story about the events going on in a book that they are reading. Posted by Lord Alford. I continue to...
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Hard Core English Teacher: Making Comments in Google Docs
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Hard Core English Teacher. Why be common core when you can be HARD CORE! Sunday, April 22, 2012. Making Comments in Google Docs. I should have known this already, but I stumbled onto this by accident the other day and I thought I would share it with you in case you didn't know it either. Now Microsoft makes a more powerful program with Word. If you are into formatting your document with columns and tables, you can't beat Word. That said, if you are into sharing, Google docs is boss. Another benefit to Go...
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Hard Core English Teacher: Fancy Fencing
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Hard Core English Teacher. Why be common core when you can be HARD CORE! Monday, February 27, 2012. What is cooler than sword fighting? Students sword fighting in class, of course. What could be cooler than that? English teachers teaching students how to sword fight in class. Talk about points for originality from the administration. Provided, of course, that none of your students actually die in the process. And the lesser core teachers are saying "Why would I teach students how to sword fight? This lin...
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Video Tutorials | Pros Write
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More workplace success–without platitudes. Revising Professional Writing Workbook. Most links below take you to a post made up of a brief motivation for learning about a writing topic, a video tutorial, a sample document, and related research. The video tutorials are between 9 and 15 minutes long. The topics are based on the chapters in the 3rd and 4th editions of my co-authored workbook,. Revising Professional Writing in Science and Technology, Business, and the Social Sciences. Putting It All Together.
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What word is used only in a woman’s performance review? | Pros Write
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More workplace success–without platitudes. Revising Professional Writing Workbook. What word is used only in a woman’s performance review? February 5, 2015. Wanted to share this piece. Even though I have no time to elaborate today. (Tip o’ the hat to Marie Paretti for sharing it! Those of you who write performance reviews for women need to reflect on your word choice. And what it says about you! Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Get tips fr...
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Learn to analyze a workplace audience to deliver an effective message | Pros Write
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More workplace success–without platitudes. Revising Professional Writing Workbook. Learn to analyze a workplace audience to deliver an effective message. March 18, 2015. Know your audience. This would count as a platitude for good writing. An earlier post used the example of writing a letter soliciting sponsorships. For First Tee of Tuscaloosa from local businesses. Here’s what I wrote about audience readiness in that situation. How much expertise do readers have about the message? Today’s mortgage APR: ...
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Instructor Resources | Pros Write
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More workplace success–without platitudes. Revising Professional Writing Workbook. If you’re new to instructing people in workplace writing, here’s how I suggest you begin. First, read 3 guidelines for coaching novice workplace writers. Teaching declarative knowledge is necessary. But it is not sufficient to change individual behavior. How likely are you to change your eating habits by listening only to a lecture? If you attend the boot camp with 30 other individuals, the probability of change is lower.