I constantly hear from teachers and students working on multi-media projects that it’s difficult to find good history related images. If that’s you, you need to check out Pictorial Americana by the Library of Congress. It’s an online database of images from early America up to 1899. The best part?
Images are presented for educational [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Teach for America also self-selects
Posted in Teach for America, change, teacher, teaching on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this week, I popped off about pre-service teachers. That perhaps those college kids with the most potential to truly impact learning are making conscious choices to not be educators. That we’re losing kids who could be great teachers because they sense that perhaps they wouldn’t fit the typical mold of the K-12 educational system.
And [...]
Do pre-service teachers self-select?
Posted in education, pre-service, teacher, teaching on October 28, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I’m a bit grumpy today.
(Sliced off part of my thumb cutting onions for a hamburger fry two days ago and it’s just been a pain trying to get things done left-handed.)
So . . . I’ve got grumpy things to say. It’s okay to disagree.
People have been suggesting for sometime that as soon as the latest [...]

