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costelloland: Op/Ed
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. This morning my students will go into a room and give their best on an exam that lasts for 3 hours and 15 minutes and will literally suck their brain out through a pencil. OK, not literally, but it will feel like it. The myth of the hero teacher. Yesterday a colleague shared an. Post on Facebook entitled ". The Myth of the Hero Teacher. By Allison Ricket. You need to pause and read this right now! Come on. make my day. The most desirable job in the world.
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costelloland: Education
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. Education is creating a million cans of peas. There is a proverb that says, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." This weekend,. Was posted in the Washington Post from a school in New York. Read the letter and then come back here, and we'll talk. The results are in. This week we had our students fill out the annual feedback forms, their opportunity to tell their teachers what is going well, what is not, and how we can become better. Long-stand...
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costelloland: 3.14 reasons for leadership
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. Thursday, March 13, 2014. 314 reasons for leadership. I am the sponsor of our school's Mu Alpha Theta chapter and each year we elect officers to do the work of spreading the word that math is cool! I want to remind all of my adult friends, teachers and parents, that giving kids a chance to lead, fall down, and pick themselves up is a vital part of the school experience. Of course we adults can do things better, but that's only because we're more exper...
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costelloland: Interludes
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. This week has been filled with Teacher Appreciation across the country. I write a quick note to say thank you to all the teachers in my life, past and present, that helped to make me who I am as a student, a teacher, and a person. My colleague, Jeff Wilson, sent me this awesome performance from Clayton Cameron on the intersection of music and math. A perfect start to your day! I'm sitting in our cafeteria,. Once upon a time, more that twenty years ago, wh...
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costelloland: quit picking on math
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. Thursday, January 16, 2014. Quit picking on math. This cartoon has been emailed to me, posted on my Facebook page, and left in my mailbox numerous times. Surely word problems are not the most confusing, difficult thing ever? There must be analogous cartoons for other disciplines with similar titles. How I see particle physics. How I see Shakespearean histories? Maybe there should be one titled. I just don't understand you. How I see l. For example, I love...
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costelloland: fold, spindle, and mutilate
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. Tuesday, October 22, 2013. Fold, spindle, and mutilate. The good news is that I do know students need to learn in a wide variety of ways and foldables are a great means of engaging the kinethetic learner. Like any good teacher, I realize that even though I don't learn this way, I know a good thing when I see it. Foldables are definitely a good thing. You can get the foldable for free. You need to sign up for teachers-pay-teachers. View my complete profile.
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costelloland: getting to the end of the line
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. Monday, May 19, 2014. Getting to the end of the line. You know when you go to a theme park and you have to wait in line a long time to get to a particularly awesome ride? Sometimes you wait an hour to ride for only 5 minutes. But the wait is worth it because the ride is awesome. It's worth it, right? Otherwise why would you wait so long? But I have to ask, what's on the other side of this line? What is the new ride? When I think about college, it was grea...
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costelloland: May 2014
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. The psychology of exams. In college I discovered that I loved psychology and added several psychology courses to my math major as an undergrad and in graduate school. One of those courses,. History and Systems of Psychology. About a week before exams I was sitting in class when Dr. Thorsheim threw a wrench in my works. He asked the class to vote as to whether the course would actually have an exam. Not surprisingly, th...At the ti...
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costelloland: last dance
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. Monday, June 2, 2014. If high school graduation is the end of an important life chapter and life is the. Song of Fire and Ice. Series, I hope that Saturday was the end of book 1,. I have loved talking to so many of you on Facebook, here at the blog, and in person. More than 20,000 page views tells me that somebody out there was reading what I wrote. I am humbled and exceptionally grateful. Thank you so much. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am the sp...
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costelloland: see now I'm just mad
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What if someone opened a window into a classroom. Tuesday, March 4, 2014. See now I'm just mad. Yesterday I had a massive computer meltdown and I know it's supposed to be TEDTuesday, but I have been thinking about this post all weekend and I've decided I really need to say something, but before I do, let me tell you a story. Consider Mary. Mary enrolled in Weight Watchers. Every week she went to a meeting and weighed in. One week she went in and did really well. She lost 5 pounds! What yanks my chain is ...
