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TeacherScribe: clickbait
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What I Want to Read Next. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Thanks to a former student of mine who I saw this morning while refueling my car, I have learned a new word. Clickbait, apparently, is when you have a status on Facebook that is inflammatory (guilty as charged with my previous post where I used a quote from Gary Paulson) to get people to click on your link, which, in this case, took you to my previous post which was a playful jab at the MN dentist who killed a popular lion on safari. Whenever I read one...
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TeacherScribe: My Writing
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What I Want to Read Next. Any writing teacher worth a damn knows this is true: the best writing teachers write themselves. I don't know if I picked that up from Donald Murray, Ken Macrorie, Tom Romano, or someone else. But it's absolutely essential. So here's some of what I've written over the years. You will find a mixture of poetry, non fiction, creative non-fiction, fiction, and - sometimes - all of them woven together into one piece. Meeting Myrtle: A Memoir. I Stand in Awe Before Love. I blogged a l...
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Practice of Teaching | SeanDelaney.com
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Reflections and resources on teaching, teacher education and mathematics education. Category Archives: Practice of Teaching. A New School Year, a Fresh Start for Children. One year ago few people thought Leicester City Football Club would become Premier League Champions. This time last year who thought that Donald Trump would become the Republican Candidate for this year’s U.S. Presidential election? How we perceive ourselves and how we are perceived by others influence what we believe we can do. 4 Exper...
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Teacher Education | SeanDelaney.com
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Reflections and resources on teaching, teacher education and mathematics education. Category Archives: Teacher Education. If Schools Were More Like Coderdojos, How Would Teaching Change? In a previous post. I wrote about features of coderdojos that could be emulated in schools. Among the features I identified were:. 1 Learning comes about through solving specific problems. 2 Learners choose the problems and tasks that they work on. 5 Learners are organised by their interests and not by their age. Teachin...
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What Schools can Learn from Coderdojo | SeanDelaney.com
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Reflections and resources on teaching, teacher education and mathematics education. False Friends in Teaching and Learning Mathematics. If Schools Were More Like Coderdojos, How Would Teaching Change? What Schools can Learn from Coderdojo. It amazes me to observe how quickly coderdojos. Have become established all around the world. I can think of no other not-for-profit educational initiative that has caught on so globally so quickly. Since July 2011. Dojos have appeared in places from New York. Other no...
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Changing Teaching, Changing Culture | SeanDelaney.com
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Reflections and resources on teaching, teacher education and mathematics education. Replacement Units and School Textbooks. False Friends in Teaching and Learning Mathematics →. Changing Teaching, Changing Culture. How do teachers learn to teach? You might say by attending college, going on teaching practice, and from teaching experience. But according to Stigler and Hiebert, who wrote the book. So, how do Irish citizens grow up seeing alcohol as being integral to any celebration? So if you want to chang...
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TeacherScribe: And it might as well be fall!
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What I Want to Read Next. Sunday, August 02, 2015. And it might as well be fall! I know that there are still 38 days left of summer before school starts, but once August rolls around, I can't help but get excited for autumn. The signs area already beginning to show -. 1 I saw a combine harvesting grain in the east field behind our house. 2 The back to school ads and displays are starting to pop up in the stores. 3 The evening seems to come just a little bit sooner than it did early in the summer. Usually...
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Continuing Professional Development | SeanDelaney.com
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Reflections and resources on teaching, teacher education and mathematics education. Category Archives: Continuing Professional Development. Rarr; 1 Comment. School League Tables and Improving Teaching. Let’s just suppose that league tables are useful. At their very best, what good are they? Here are some possible benefits that I can think of. Continue reading →. Rarr; 2 Comments. Teaching Practice changes will help bridge schools and colleges. Rarr; Leave a comment. Has published a report (available here.
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Replacement Units and School Textbooks | SeanDelaney.com
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Reflections and resources on teaching, teacher education and mathematics education. Changing Teaching, Changing Culture →. Replacement Units and School Textbooks. However, I am critical of the quality of mathematics textbooks that are available to teachers in Ireland. Compared to textbooks produced in other countries. Irish textbooks could help offer pupils a more stimulating and interesting educational experience. Over the last year I was involved with the PDST. This entry was posted in Textbooks. They ...
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Textbooks | SeanDelaney.com
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Reflections and resources on teaching, teacher education and mathematics education. Replacement Units and School Textbooks. Rarr; 2 Comments. The High Cost of Textbooks is Not Just the Price. The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, has expressed concern about the price of school textbooks and is proposing four practical changes. To reduce the cost burden on parents. Continue reading →. Rarr; Leave a comment. Welcome to my home page. I am registrar in Marino Institute of Education. Theme: Cor...
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