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It’s no secret that our schools, in general, are not doing the best they could be at educating our children. Some blame the teachers, saying they are slackers who only teach because they aren’t qualified to do anything else. Others put the blame on parents who don’t take time to emphasize the importance of education at home and who can’t — or won’t — support teachers by working with their children to reinforce what they have learned in class. In reality, it’s probably some of both. There are certainly a lot of hard-working, dedicated teachers out there, but some are more effective than others — what if we could make every teacher as good as the best teachers? Some researchers think they have the means to do that.
Video games have a bad reputation. While kids spend hours upon hours engaged in sedentary electronic play, parents wring their hands and bemoan the wasted time. But while there may not be any real-world advantage to mastering Super Mario, at least one expert believes that video games do have something worthwhile to teach us. Namely, how to teach our kids. Continue reading »
A high school English teacher who used the “b-word” on her private Facebook page is out of a job thanks to an anonymous letter sent to school administration.
To top it off – she posted a picture of herself from a European vacation holding a glass of wine. Oh, the horrors. Continue reading »
Your child’s teacher will tell you a lot of things: What last night’s homework was, that your child talks too much in class, or that little Suzy seems to finally mastering her multiplication tables.
But besides being professional educators, teachers are also human. And there’s often a lot more they’d like to say, but don’t. Unless, of course, they’re allowed to be completely anonymous.
When Reader’s Digest interviewed teachers from all over the country, they came up with the real list of things your child’s teacher wished you knew. A sampling:
Today on Babble:
A program meant to teach kids about raising animals should be an animal activist’s dream. Until the fourteen kids who raised a lamb named Marcus voted to have the wooly little critter sent to the slaughterhouse.
Lamb chop anyone? Continue reading »
Having two or more students with the same name can be confusing (Emma A., Emma B., and Emma C., for instance). Teaching twins can be a challenge. I once taught two sets of twins at once. But a Colorado Springs kindergarten teacher is looking at an especially unique opportunity this fall — nine of her students come from two different families, one set of quadruplets and one set of quints.
Lori Garcia 
Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
Monica Bielanko 
Sierra Black 
Meredith Carroll 
Carolyn Castiglia 
Sunny Chanel 
Madeline Holler 
Rebecca Odes 
Danielle Smith 
Danielle Sullivan 
Katherine Stone 
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