teaching

  • This a bird, This a plane

    When my Ahma came over she couldn’t read English. To manage, she devised a system for identifying objects by shape, size, color, and label art. This system was not foolproof like when our local supermarket started selling liquid soap (she thought it was lotion). But it served her needs 90% of the time. Family and

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  • Text Drive

    Among the more interesting workshop topics at this year’s National Middle School Association conference was text messaging as an educational tool. The workshop was called: If You Can’t Beat ’em… Staying true to the title of his workshop, presenter Tom Bronson asserted that currently banned or discouraged student behavior of sending text messages during class

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  • Making Face(book)s

    There was a time my teachers existed only within the four walls of their classrooms. At the end of the day, after they ushered us to the school yard (the school’s lobby when it rained) for dismissal, they faded back into the dimly lit corridors of the school. Not to be seen until the next

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Vincent Young