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The Magic Bean www.toddwhitaker.com @ toddwhitaker - twitter. The Students We Want The Least Need Us The Most. Teaching Is Not A Profession, It’s A Passion. -Unknown. The Kids In Our Classroom Are Infinitely More Significant Than The Subject Matter We Teach. - Meladee McCarty.
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The Kids In Our Classroom Are Infinitely More Significant Than The Subject Matter We Teach.- Meladee McCarty
When It Comes To Complainers Keep In Mind That The Loudest Barks Seldom Come From The Smartest Dogs
Share With A Partner(s) A Story Or Remembrance You have AS a Student In Their ClassroomWhat Characteristics, Adjectives, Phrases, Or Terms Would You Use To Describe This Person?Share These With Your Group And Record Your Responses.Twitter #SED2012
What Schools Should Be Doing
What Schools Should Be Doing What Standardized Tests Measure
What Schools Should Be Doing What Standardized Tests Measure
The Higher The Level Of TrustThe Larger The Zone Of Indifference Zone of Indifference Level of Trust
Rewards Can Work Rather Have a B or a D? Simonsen Challenge The Lime Green Ipod Do Not Use Rewards As A Hammer
What Great Educators Do Differentlywww.toddwhitaker.com@toddwhitaker - twitter
The Frog Sheets-You Will Know-Everyone Else Will Know-The Mirror
The Best We Know How • Teachers • Parents • Students
It’s People, It’s Not Programs • Great Teachers/Great School • Poor Lecturer’s Classroom • Assertive Discipline • Open Classrooms
Principals – Who Is Responsible For The Climate of Your School? Teachers – You Give an Assignment and the Students Do Poorly on it Worst Group Of Students We Have Ever Had! Willingness To Accept Responsibility
Difference Between Expectations and Rules Rules Have Consequences – Expectations Do Not Which Teacher Has More Rules Than Any Other Teacher In Your School. And, They Never Have Enough Great Teachers Do Not Have Rules
Treat Every Student With Respect and Dignity Every Day, All The Time How Many Days Out of Ten Do You Want? You Don’t Have To Like The Students, You Just Have To Act Like You Like The Students 10 Days Out of 10
Incredible Ability To Ignorev.No Ability To Ignore Whatsoever
Can You Help Me With My Poem? The Holiday Party For The Day Care Make It Cool To Care
Superstars Backbones Mediocres Three Kinds Of Teachers
5 to 10 Percent of Faculty Students Would Say It is One of My Best Teachers Parents Request Them Respected By Peers Irreplaceable Superstars
80 to 90 Percent of Faculty Do Most of the Work In a School If Two Or Three Leave We Will Probably Break Even In Terms of Talent There Can Be Aspects We Might Miss, Or Might Not Miss At All Backbones
5 to 10 Percent of Faculty Might Be Too Kind of a Word If One of Them Leaves We Are Sure We Can Do Better – Without Even Looking At the Applicants Might Be Nice, Might Be Not Nice Mediocres