Google offers a lot more than just search and email. Their online office software has become quite robust over the years. I used to have my school database and documents on my laptop which I brought back and forth to school but now I do most of that with Google Docs. Of course I still [...]
If emotions are at the core of learning, why do music educators and ensemble directors consistently ignore the student’s emotions? Nearsightedness and for their own emotions. Or perhaps we should be thinking about future emotions. It is easier to look a month or two down the road. It is easier to view own your road [...]
Warren Buffett’s Advice to Your Kids Once a year, more than 10,000 shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) descend upon Omaha, Neb., to listen to its managers, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, answer questions for more than five hours. Buffett, arguably the world’s greatest investor, is known for his willingness to teach others. Here, paraphrased, [...]
What are we really training our students for? My brother is a mathematician and educator and it’s refreshing to get his perspective. We should be creating life long learners and appreciators with a foundation that allows them to pursue the field if they so choose. Too often we approach students as though every one is [...]
What do you do to counteract the mid-year blues?
Here’s a newspaper blurb about a recent school concert!
Post your 2010 goals, resolutions, and thoughts!
from “The Perfect Wrong Note” by William Westney
I hope everyone is having a great and restful holiday break!
Happy Holidays everyone!
As an employee of a not-for-profit organization, teachers are entitled to participate in a 403(b)(7) investment program. A 403(b)(7) plan is a tax-deferred retirement plan often available to employees of public schools or non-profit organizations. You hear your corporate friends talk about their 401k. It’s kinda of like that but with no employer match and [...]
“The development of ability is strtaightforward. This can be absolutely relied upon. People either become experts at doing the right thing, which is seen as a fine talent, or they becme experts at doing something wrong and unacceptable, which is seen as lack of talent. So it behooves everyone to become expert in the right [...]
This post is part of the Teachers Certification Map’s “lessons from the field”, a series of posts featuring passionate, inspiring educators from across the country discussing some of the lessons that they have learned over the years that would help young teachers as they embark on their careers.
Is differentiation a regression to the 19th century one room schoolhouse? Probably not, but I wanted to post a controversial question. Will we return to tracking students again as was popular in the 80s and 90s? Great teachers have always differentiated and taught to the learning standards. What are your thoughts?
Education is an interesting and delicate phenomenon. Should we promote the often touted ‘well-rounded’ or generalist concept, or should we track students early on to become specialists? What are your thoughts?
•3 minutes Warmups • Long bowing • Frog-tip (from Sevcik) •3 minutes scales •2 minutes arpeggios •2 minutes scales / arpeggios with bow – tip exercise •10 / 10 Book – 10 minute teach, 10 minutes practice •15 Orchestra Music – practice on own
How Neccesary is Homework? By Betty’s Blog. Which begs the question – If your students are in rehearsal 4 days a week and receive a weekly lesson, how necessary is home practice? What do you think?
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Beginner Orchestra – First Day Lesson
Like a few of my previous posts, this is not from me but some inspiration I keep on hand. I would credit the source if I knew it. Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part [...]
Burke’s “Dirty Dozen” Teacher Behaviors than Can Erode the Classroom Climate 1. Sarcasm Students’ feelings can be hurt by sarcastic put downs thinly disguised as “humor.” 2. Negative Tone Students can “read between the lines” and sense a sarcastic, negative, or condescending of Voice tone of voice 3. Negative Body Clenched fists, a [...]
When his son wanted to quit baseball at age 8, Dad said to him, “Sure, but you have to tell your teammates and coach.” The boy couldn’t do it. He’s played for 7 years since. Show kids the pain of quitting, and they won’t make those kind of decisions lightly. “If your kid says a [...]
The Ten Commandments of Good Teaching One of the many books that I (one of our administrators) read this summer was called The Ten Commandments of Good Teaching by Vickie Gill. In it, she bared her soul in speaking of the everyday realities of teaching using examples from the perspective of a rebellious student, overwhelmed [...]
Attention Teachers: STOP WHINING! Kids not getting it? Teach it. Administrative issues? Present a SOLUTION. Rough day? Take a deep breath and meditate for two minutes. But stop complaining, you’re only adding to the negative energy aound you and making us want to talk to you even less.
More sample documents added!
(from my page here) -Keep computer templates rather than each year’s files. If you do want to keep them create an ‘Archives’ folder. -Remember what Einstein said – Keep things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -Have “Leaky Margins”. If your boundaries and walls are too rigid they are bound to break. Allow some [...]
