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Teacher Cloning Extras

What are some resources and hacks to use in cloning yourself so you can work smarter?

Posted on August 18th, 2008 by jwitter in Featured, In-service

Diigo is for teaching

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Posted on August 14th, 2008 by jwitter in Miscellaneous

Live Blogging: Strategies for Pre-AP and AP Success II

What do students struggle with when they do DBQs?

Don’t respond to the question correctly
Difficulty analyze documents
Students want to summarize the documents
Inexperience with critical thinking
Time management
Weak thesis statement
Voice

Sample DBQ - Does Lincoln deserve to be thought of as “the Great Emancipator”?

1960’s Civil Rights: Analyze the changes that occurred during the 1960’s in the goals, strategies, [...]

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by jwitter in Featured, In-service

Cooties


Posted on August 11th, 2008 by jwitter in Video ,

Live Blogging: Strategies for Pre-AP and AP Success

s3 - Strategies for Student Success with Lenore Murray and Sherry Owens

Warm-up: Roam around the room and meet three people.

Favorite Historical Era
Favorite Historical Period
What someone would know about me as a teacher if they knew me.

What skills must your students have to be successful in the Pre-AP and AP classroom and on [...]

Posted on August 11th, 2008 by jwitter in Featured

New Teacher Speed Training

As part of my school’snew teacher training we conducted a session of Speed Training. Twenty desks, set around the perimiter of a large room. Each desk manned by a teacher with 3 minutes to introduce a topic that new teachers could look deeper into later during their individual staff development time. The new teachers came [...]

Posted on August 9th, 2008 by jwitter in Featured , ,

WWII Veteran Recieves Legion of Honor and Remembers Normandy


Posted on August 7th, 2008 by jwitter in Video , ,

Castle Bits of Kidwelly

At Quod She, Dr. Virago (a medievalist, a humanist, and a professor of literature), and medievalist blogger of note, shares her recent additions to her medieval castle photo collection of Kidwelly Castle.

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by jwitter in Hunter-Gatherer, News, US History, World History

Electing a US President in Plain English


Posted on August 5th, 2008 by jwitter in Video ,

Comment on “The Scopes Monkey Trial”

In response to The Scopes Monkey Trial:
Read Dave Tabler’s post before continuing.
I disagree with the idea that “science won the day”. No court can diminish or expand the truth of a scientific principal.
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” - Galileo
The Scopes Monkey [...]

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