TEACHER MAN, TEACHER MS.

This post contains a logo, a little kids reading survey, and a middle school survey. Your input is requested. As mentioned in my post of March 6 2012, I will act as the Teacher Supervisior or Program Co-ordinator or Grand Poobah (haven’t come up with the right moniker just yet) for a month-long program in [...]

Everyone loves group work! Recently, I had the pleasure of acting as a University Facilitator for four students in their final practicum at Red Deer College. As I watched each of these fledgling teachers interact with students, I was pleased to see them employing the tools of teaching in effective ways . . . but [...]

I met Anna J. Small Roseboro through the English Ning, a site used to share ideas. She kindly sent me a copy of her new book shown below. As you will see in the second photo, once I found my supply of sticky tabs, I was hardpressed not to put at least one on every [...]

The whole idea behind Teacher Man, Teacher Ms. is the sharing of ideas. To date, I have been sharing my ideas. On rare occasions, people who visit the site leave comments. On even rarer occasions, the people who have visited and who leave comments are fellow bloggers. Today I’d like to share the sites from [...]

thanks to ciker.com for the image Writing for a Reason – Free Stuff Back in the day, I taught my students how to write friendly letters and business letters. These days, email has, for the most part, replaced these time-honored forms of communication. But when kids are asked to write to someone, even when they [...]

Don’t miss the last paragraph. I have recently been asked to be the “Teacher Supervisor” at a program we (the Red Deer Public School District) are calling Reading College. The idea is to find 30 “emerging readers” who will finish Grade Two in June. We will offer them free busing, free breakfast, morning snack, lunch, [...]

thanks to freesdisneyclipartsite.com thanks to disney-clipart.com The Story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves  Grimm’s Fairy Tale version – translated by Margaret Hunt – language modernized a bit by Leanne Guenther   Once upon a time, long, long ago a king and queen ruled over a distant land.  The queen was kind and lovely [...]

Topic sentences often appear as the first sentence in a paragraph. Alternatives exist. Which do you prefer? A hedgehog’s quills are its most obvious, most interesting feature. The quills, actually stiff, hollow hairs, have no points, are not barbed, and unlike porcupine quills, are not easily removed from a hedgehog’s body. The quills can be [...]

I’m not a great singer. When I wrote new words to the Spiderman theme, one titled Teacher Man and the other Teacher Ms., I knew that singing the words at teacher gatherings would be memorable – but for the wrong reasons. Fortunately, two talented singers have solved my dilemma. Here are the words sung by [...]

There are lots of students who don’t like school. As a teacher, I am a bit sensitive when I hear or read complaints. When I read Sue Grafton’s G is for Gumshoe, I was not surprised to find this passage:           “How’d you manage to go to school?”           “I didn’t if I could help [...]