Hello All, I just joined this forum today. I am quite excited about it and looking forward to getting some feedback, and support from colleagues. I have been working with students who have severe disabilites since I was in grade school. It is my true heart felt passion to teach children and young adults with [...]
Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 1 Timestamp: 2012-01-20 22:15:07 UTC Congratulations Natalie #1 Natalie January 16, 2012 at 2:10 pm In our family everyone is a mathematician. I went to a school for mathematically gifted for 10 years, and my husband is even stronger than I am in math. Not surprisingly, our [...]
This has been an ongoing challenge in my room and I could really use some suggestions from other teachers… Every day we do a one minute warning before clean up time. I also do a count down from ten to one and then ring a bell indicating its time to clean up. a few children [...]
Hi, Can someone give me good advice for this? Now, when I have a problem, I get advice from people outside of the school situation first. Then, I deal with the concerned individual. I try to come to a common ground with that person so I can keep a good rapport with that person even [...]
I just completed the first day of claymation with my computer classes. We are learning quite a bit about the technical end of the project. We are using Windows Live Movie Maker. The students are eager to do more than what I ask them to do. We are heading into a bigger project in the [...]
Recently, my niece gave birth to her third little boy. When there’s a new baby in the family everyone has to be flexible. So when she called telling me she had to unexpectedly see her doctor, I said yes to watching her older two boys. Upon finishing lunch, Miss Enigma took Grandson #4 into her [...]
My new job is offering me a promotion to asst director but also wants me to continue in my room. I will be in the position to call out my coworkers and write them up if needed. i am worried that being in the room as a teacher when I have a management title will [...]
Many doctors feel unprepared to care for children with neurologic impairment. (Photo: Lindsey Hoshaw) Jay Berry, MD, MPH, shown here with patient Kyler Quelch, is a pediatrician and hospitalist in the Complex Care Service at Children’s Hospital Boston. He leads the multi-institutional Complex Care Quality Improvement Research Collaborative. As a general pediatrician, albeit one with [...]
Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: The Secret Life of a Snowflake by Kenneth Libbrecht Why we love this book: The photos in this science book are some of the most amazing and beautiful we’ve ever seen. Kenneth Libbrecht, the author, is a scientist who studies and photographs snowflakes under a microscope. The photos are nothing [...]
Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Doubling Fun with Annie Ant by Vicki Churchill & Charles Fuge Why we love this book: This simple book is an early introduction to multiplication. The bright illustrations and rhyming text even make it an appropriate read aloud for preschoolers. However, since the book is focusing on multiplication it is [...]