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Writer's Desk - A First Year Urban Educator's Blog
http://walkere.frih.net/issues/
Writer's Desk is a collection of tried and true teaching resources that I have found useful in my classroom. It is also a personal blog about my experience as a first year urban educator in New Jersey.
- Added on: Sep 15th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Brian Rock
- Listed in: Education History
- Tags: education teaching high school history urban social studies
Recent Posts
New Education Site “Babel” Launches
I haven’t been updating this blog lately because I’ve been busy working on a different project - Babel. Babel is a general education and technology website. It’s got a growing collection of articles on methods, technology tutorial...
Historical Heads: Turn Words into Pictures while Analyzing People
Can’t think of a way to force your students to process information and utilize higher order thinking skills? Make them draw! By converting written words and thoughts into pictures, students are at least applying the knowledge and at best synt...
Easy Grade Pro - A Great Electronic Gradebook
Looking for an electronic gradebook? I know I was. In the first weeks of school, I’ve had dozens of students move on, off, or around my rosters. If I’d been using a pen and paper gradebook, it would be scribbled and erased half to dea...
Lesson Plan on Religious Violence in 16th Century Europe
The century after the Reformation was an extremely violent one in Europe. Protestants and Catholics completed unspeakable atrocities on each other. Wars raged for decades at a time. The period is significant for both European History and US History...
Increasing Honors and AP Classes - Open Enrollment
I went to a High Schools That Work network meeting yesterday. It was fairly interesting - three schools shared strategies that they have been using to improve their schools of the past few years. One of the topics covered was how to improve enrollm...
Generate Class Discussion - Write Your Own News
This is a trick I learned in my college education courses. Another one of my classmates thought it would be a cool idea to fake a memo on school letterhead and use it to convince students that an unpopular policy was taking effect. He told them tha...
