Teachers or Educators?

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick, they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night the maintenance man would remove them, and the next day the girls would put them back. Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night (you can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses). To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror. There are teachers and then there are educators.

Teachers and technology

Dorothy's D.C. week end

Kind of looks like our class.

This reminds me of at least two of our past instructors. Can you guess who I'm thinking of?

Adult ed. site of possible interest

I found this web site that has a bunch of info on adult ed. click here to read it, or browse around the site. There may be something of interest to you all some where in there. Please give me some feedback on it. Is it helpful? Did you find it interesting? Is it just a waste of your time? Can you suggest any others sites?

Strategies

We have talked about a number of teaching strategies, such as think - pair - share, and jig saw. We have also talked at length about about diverse learning styles. I am curious to know from you guys how you are going to incorporate these things into your own teaching style. For me at the moment, I am going to take advantage of the observations to see how different things work, and steal the best techniques, and try to make them my own.