Category : life

Path to Expertise

Guidance Not sure I have written about the amazing guidance I got from my Reading Specialist team last school year. Yesterday I had a brief breakdown, shaken off by my

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Desafios

Esta semana eu comecei uma nova fase. Uma fase em que sou funcionária permanente de um distrito escolar, com uma posição integral sob a perspectiva distrital, mas trabalhando meio período

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Challenges

This week I started a new phase, one in which I am a permanent employee of a school district, holding a full time position from the district perspective, but working

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Diferenças

Multiliguismo nos ajuda a crescer, ampliando a habilidade de pensar e ser.

Rewards

Extrinsic motivation has been discussed for decades. Still, in education we see it used often to obtain desired behaviors and to convince students to dedicate time to learning. What are we teaching these students when we use such strategies?

Undying Passion

CHANGE OF PACE I have been teaching, mainly preschool and early elementary, for over 10 years, and I always gave my heart, soul, mind and time to the school and

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Play with your child’s food

Innovating Children’s Lunchbox As a child, I always served my plate trying to keep it harmonious, usually relying a lot on symmetry and the color and shape of each food

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Not from a box

Having just finished my Masters of Arts in Teaching, I am currently between school and work. Being summer and all, finding a teaching job in a grade school is nearly

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maria

Quinta feira passada minha mãe lançou seu primeiro romance, “maria” – escrito assim, em letras minúsculas. A letra minúscula no início de um nome próprio na capa de seu livro

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maria

Last Thursday my mother launched her first novel, “maria” – written like that, with lower case. The font size beginning a proper name on the cover of her book is

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