Yesterday, at an educational training, I sat down to lunch with a woman in charge of a large Head Start program in the Pacific Northwest. Through our small talk, she learned that I had been a secondary science teacher for six years, and then informed me that her program was going to focus on science [...]
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Yesterday, my husband and I received our copy of Wii Music, but before I can tell you about my musings about Wii Music, you first need some understanding of my musical history.
When I was in elementary school, I sang enthusiastically in the school chorus. In 5th grade, I tried out for [...]
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As part of a study I was conducting, I recently had the opportunity to ask a lot of people “What is your personal philosophy of teaching?” As I watched my interview subjects struggle to articulate their thoughts on teaching, I realized that I’d never articulated a coherent statement of my own philosophy [...]
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