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Great book for new teachers.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Here are some details from the book “Teach like a champion: 49 Techniques that put students on the path to college”. I have found the book very helpful because so much of the advice is so specific. The author includes examples of specific phrases that are (supposedly) effective and also tells the reader why they [...]

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Translation Party Insights

Sunday, August 23, 2009

I just learned about Translation Party from this article on BBspot, so I went over to try it out. Translation Party is an interesting idea and pretty cool to play with. The idea is to translate an English sentence into Japanese, take the resulting Japanese sentence and translate it back into English, and repeat this [...]

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The Teacher’s Tax

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Who, outside of your immediate family, has had the biggest influence on your success in life? It is probably your teachers and coaches. Peers, of course, also have a huge influence on young people, but not in an organized or necessarily positive way. Good teachers work hard to positively influence their students while equipping them [...]

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