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NOT school

2008-10-27T22:49:10Z

On Sunday, Aaron and I went down to Monroe, LA. for a church meeting. We got lost and were 45 minutes late (to a 2 hour meeting). After the meeting we went to a park with some people from church and had a picnic. I ate pasta salad, a roast beef...

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weird people

2008-07-18T14:51:05Z

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not THAT bad

2008-07-04T04:22:42Z

(Reaction to video taped lesson #1 on 6/26/2008) My very first reaction was "wow, it's not that bad!" I was expecting to really hate watching myse...

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Extreme Dorm Experience

2008-07-02T02:30:07Z

More pictures will come when Aaron is home and I feel motivated to leave my room.

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Reluctant Disciplinarian

2008-06-28T17:15:02Z

This book (The Reluctant Disciplinarian by Gary Rubinstein) was interesting because it reflected a lot of the same ideas and strategies we've been learning about in class. That was somewhat comforting because many sources of help for teachers are...

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wisdom from the second years

2008-06-27T02:39:35Z

Today during the classroom management presentations, I picked up some interesting things I am going to think about using in my classroom. I've been trying to think of a way to manage classroom volume without having a "you must raise your hand to ...

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questioning

2008-06-19T22:46:16Z

The very first questioning technique I tried was asking the students a higher level question, having them jot down an answer, and then calling on them to hear what they were thinking. This one appealed to me right away because when I was in schoo...

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Delta Autumn

2008-06-14T17:34:45Z

Reaction to Delta Autumn Here's how I read this book - I started reading the first section on the history of education in Mississippi, then I decided to skip ahead to the parts about teaching (since I was about to start teaching), then I finished...

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lightning bugs

2008-06-10T02:53:08Z

Tonight I walked home from the library. It was dark already. It was 8:45 but it was dark & warm & nice for walking. As I walked home I could hear the sounds of college kids screaming in the distance & having a good time. I was all alone on the...

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Impressions

2008-06-06T19:23:32Z

Write about your first week in the Mississippi Teacher Corps. What are your first impressions? How has the transition been? What questions do you still have? The first two blogs I wrote pretty much summarize the physical aspects of my move t...

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