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Thank your teachers: Bullying in the workplace
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Monday, November 30, 2009. Bullying in the workplace. It was 2003 or 2004. According to our teacher's Collective Agreement, if a principal wanted to discipline a teacher, s/he has the right to Federation representation. My principal, we called her "The Princess" behind her back, accosted me in the hallway. The Princess had been named this in her previous school, be her previous staff, with whom I served on Federation Executive. We knew her reputation. I wrote a letter, documenting in 7 pages the harassme...
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Thank your teachers: novel study
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Saturday, July 25, 2015. Jennifer A. Jilks. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Teaching from a Canadian perspective. Brought to you from S. E. Ontario, Canada! Happy to have been a teacher. In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. Blues in the schools. One room school house.
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Thank your teachers: Split Grade Classes II
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Friday, February 13, 2009. Split Grade Classes II. I was asked about this topic by a journalist. I haven't reflected on it for a few years. I wrote an article, Split Grade Classes. What does the research say about the impact of split grades on students? There is little, as I said in the article, previously posted in this blog. Since there is no value for anyone to pay for such. Based on your experience, what are some of the benefits - and what are some of the drawbacks of combined grades? 8226; Principal...
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Thank your teachers: Tools to fight homophobia and stereotypes: acceptance and understanding
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Friday, March 27, 2015. Tools to fight homophobia and stereotypes: acceptance and understanding. I LOVE THIS IDEA. Created by the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. I retired in 2006, yet I recall many times contradicting students who would use ' gay. As a derogatory term. I would counter with, " I know people who are gay. What's the big deal? I would stop all activities, and deal with the statement in question. Apparently, this morphed into using ' gay'. We've learned so much more about ge...
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Thank your teachers: Reading Buddies – to encourage readers
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Sunday, October 12, 2008. Reading Buddies – to encourage readers. Facing an increasingly diverse school population and students who were reluctant to read, I decided to create a community of leaders. In the train-the-trainer fashion, I created mini-literacy consultants! I explained that the SKs were just learning French and that they wouldn't have any problems. We chose to meet every Wednesday at first period when students were fresh. The first day off we all went down to the SK class. I had prep...Snack...
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Thank your teachers: Key Experiences in Early Childhood
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Sunday, September 13, 2009. Key Experiences in Early Childhood. This blog post arose from a presentation I made to parents of ABC, gifted children. What is best that we do for all kids, applies as much to gifted children. The full article is here - Parenting Your Gifted Child. The Highscope Educational Research Foundation. 1985) developed this framework, now called Key Developmental Indicators,. In active learning, playing with hands-on activities, running, touching,. In developing logical reasoning:.
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Thank your teachers: Safe Snacks
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Saturday, January 21, 2012. During my teaching career we faced a number of biopsychosocial issues. An educator with an holistic approach I taught the whole child. The most difficult issue to deal with seemed to be the increased number of students with allergies. Some principals came down hard and over protected students. They demanded that the entire school change its policy and, for parents, lunch time and 'nutritional breaks', became a hardship. Offers more information, too! Fruit by the Foot. Nutri &e...
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Thank your teachers: Questions to encourage thinking skills in children
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Saturday, September 12, 2009. Questions to encourage thinking skills in children. Jennifer A. Jilks. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Teaching from a Canadian perspective. Brought to you from S. E. Ontario, Canada! Happy to have been a teacher. Lee Iacocca, automobile executive (b. 1924). Blues in the schools. Books for the book shelf. One room school house. Poverty in the classroom. Anger Management class blog (Section 20). Classroom Photos - room 218. Key Experiences for young children. I'm not quit...
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Thank your teachers: Discovery-based math not making the grade
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Discovery-based math not making the grade. If you don't know how to figure out the area of a triangle,. Parallelogram and rectangle, how do you figure out the area. I've been complaining about this since I began my teaching career (1989) working with learning disabled students. Kids cannot struggle trying to figure out what 7 x 7 equals, while in the middle of discovering abstract problem-solving. There are pre-requisite skills to solving algebra. 5 hours ago -. Jan 21, 2014 -.
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Thank your teachers: The new Health and Physical Education curriculum draws out the homophobics
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015. The new Health and Physical Education curriculum draws out the homophobics. 8220;It’s not the premier of Ontario’s job, especially Kathleen Wynne, to tell parents what’s age-appropriate for their children,” McNaughto said Monday following the release of the new document. Wynne demanded that McNaughton explain why he feels she is not qualified to set education policy. 8220;What is it that especially disqualifies me from the job that I’m doing? Is it that I’m a mother? Yes Doe...
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