Learning to be Hip:
1) If you are going to add a video to your blog, choose one that loads fast enough to play in real time. Don Henley videos tend to be slow and melancholy, just like Don Henley himself.
2) Honesty Fires. If there is any chance your child is keeping something from you, take them on a camping trip with a couple of their friends and tell them you are going to have an "Honesty Fire". Move ahead under the guise that nothing said can ever leave the circle AND nothing said can have any consequences from you the parents. After they agree, begin to throw out the red herrings: "Everyone around the fire needs to tell a story of the time you stayed out past curfew", or "Do you know anyone that is dating someone WAY too old for them", or "Is anyone here preparing to get a job, a scholarship for college, or even a basic skill?"
3) Bakugon: the anime game a LOT of 6th Graders are into. Read carefully and you can stun your students the next time you see them playing with those little round toys:
The story centers on six friends who find metallic cards which have fallen from the sky or to be more precise, Vestroia itself. They name themselves the Battle Brawlers: Dan, Runo, Marucho, Julie, Shun, and Alice. Together they learn more about the origin of the Bakugan, the game involving them, other planets with their aliens who received them, and their battle against evil villains created by Naga, a rouge Bakugan who wants the Core's power to rule the universe. Really?
Three things I learned about teaching today:
1) Besides being 4+ hours long, or Social Studies Curriculum class should be really good this year. Our professor already tossed us a great definition for Social Studies itself: It is the integrated study of the social sciences, history, and the humanities to promote civic competencies. I'm totally using that on my resume!!
2) The OTSA model of classroom observation. If you are going to ever observe another teacher in any format, a great model for your note taking would be to write their (O)bjective, then the (A)ssessment they use to determine if the students received the information. Then write down what the (T)eacher asks and the (S)tudents do in a descriptive form and you have yourself one heck of a note stew.
3) Bloom's Taxonomy: The rationalization of asking questions to students after an event (reading, speech, total catastrophe). There are six levels of questions as seen in the pyramid below. Partially written by Harry Wong...really!!
Totally Random things for today:
1) Fear based politics has invaded NOAA. La Nina is coming, La Nina.........AAAAAHHHHHHH
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/104315849.html
2) For the 1st time in 162 weeks....yes....over 3 years, The University of Texas Longhorns football team sits outside the top 25 rankings. I'm not really sure why I care about this.
3) Michael Jackson's Thriller has sold the most records off all time. Second place, the Greatest Hits Album from 71 - 75 for.......(drumroll)....The Eagles. Darn Don Henley!!
Joke:
On their 40th wedding anniversary and during the banquet celebrating it, Thomas was asked to give his friends a brief account of the benefits of a marriage of such long duration.
"Tell us Thomas, just what is it you have learned from all those wonderful years with your wife?"
Thomas responds, "Well, I've learned that marriage is the best teacher of all. It teaches you loyalty, forbearance, meekness, self-restraint, forgiveness --and a great many other qualities you wouldn't have needed if you'd stayed single."
"Tell us Thomas, just what is it you have learned from all those wonderful years with your wife?"
Thomas responds, "Well, I've learned that marriage is the best teacher of all. It teaches you loyalty, forbearance, meekness, self-restraint, forgiveness --and a great many other qualities you wouldn't have needed if you'd stayed single."
Cheerio
Your random fact numero dos breaks my poor little burnt orange heart :(
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