This technique will work regardless of the subject matter you are teaching. This concept is valid for any grade level. It has worked for me at grade levels 8 through college.
My explanation to my students was this. We are going to proudly show others what we do, how we do it, how well we do it and particularly how much we enjoy doing it.
Here are some ideas where you can tale your students to do a… Continue
Added by William Lambert on July 17, 2009 at 5:05am —
No Comments
If your classes are 55 minutes as were mine when I taught, I suggest you use the last 5 minutes to teach Life Lessons. I know you are evaluated on state or national test score results, but our kids need more. (I often wonder what was Bernard Madoff's (he stole millions from his friends) test score or Marshall Applewhite’s ( Heaven’s Gate Suicide cult leader) test score.
I would like to suggest that you teach “Dress… Continue
Added by William Lambert on July 6, 2009 at 6:08am —
No Comments
I was assigned to a new school. On my first day the principal said. “I have heard of you, you like to take the students on field trips, there will be no field trips at this school.” I have never met the principal before, but his comments did not affect me whatsoever.
My concern is how can I best educate my students? I knew that the lecture method is the technique that is least likely to achieve the results I wanted. I was guilty of the… Continue
Added by William Lambert on June 24, 2009 at 12:00pm —
No Comments
This will not work for everybody. But it worked for a dear friend of mine. Let us just call him Bob. Bob was the only Caucasian in an all Black school. He was also the only male.
He was 5’6” and weighed 130 pounds. He explained to me that the female teachers in the school were excellent teachers and they were demanding and hard on the students. He said they were ideal mother figures and ruled with an iron hand. He explained that he was reluctant to use… Continue
Added by William Lambert on June 15, 2009 at 10:38am —
No Comments
I asked my students this question when I taught at Atlanta Technical Institute.
The answers I received were $10.00 an hour, $15.00 and hour and $18.00 an hour.
The answers were all about an hourly wage that was going to be earned.
My reply to my class was this.
Item 1: A good job with respect to wage involves the letter K that is regarding salary.
Not an… Continue
Added by William Lambert on May 9, 2009 at 11:13am —
No Comments
TEACH LIFE’S LESSONS lesson 2
Marketable Skills PLAN B
An education is essential. It is a key that opens doors. It tells potential employers that you are trainable and that you can endure and complete assigned tasks.
Sadly, it does NOT guarantee employment. (I wish it did) Even a job in today’s world is not enough. There is NO “job security”. It does not exist as it once did. In right to work states (The one in which I reside) you may be fired for… Continue
Added by William Lambert on May 4, 2009 at 2:43pm —
No Comments
If your classes are 55 minutes as were mine when I taught, I suggest you use the last 5 minutes to teach Life Lessons. I know you are evaluated on state or national test score results, but our kids need more. (I often wonder what was Bernard Madoff's (he stole millions from his friends) test score or Marshall Applewhite’s ( Heaven’s Gate Suicide cult leader) test score.
I would like to suggest that you start with… Continue
Added by William Lambert on April 29, 2009 at 1:30pm —
No Comments
BY DEFINITION: Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past
How do you want your students to remember you?
If you are walking in a local mall and one of your former students sees you then runs to give you a hug and a thank you, would that make you happy.
If you overheard one of your students saying “she is the best teacher I ever had”, How would that make you… Continue
Added by William Lambert on April 13, 2009 at 9:48am —
No Comments
Teaching Technique -Make Learning FUN using Technology
First let me say I have encountered many teachers who think
that teachers should NOT try to make learning fun, they believe that learning is and should be laborious. They believe you have to “burn the midnight oil” and you experience PAIN to learn. They say “NO PAIN NO GAIN”.
Let us agree to disagree. I made the Deans list in college and enjoyed every… Continue
Added by William Lambert on April 7, 2009 at 7:12am —
No Comments
I took an assignment teaching HTML and Web Site design at a local technical college. The classes were going well but something inspired me to try this concept.
I created a questionnaire. The questions were judiciously created. I had questions on the list in which I was not really interested, such as; what is your favorite color?’ what is your favorite season of the… Continue
Added by William Lambert on April 6, 2009 at 5:50am —
No Comments
My students are my customers. NO!
My students are my clients!
The word client implies a long time relationship
whereas customer may be a one-shot deal. I am a life-long Learner but more importantly I am a LIFE- LONG TEACHER. My students will always be my students.
and
Consider this.
Who do you work for?
How would a typical teacher answer this question?
Maybe, they she would answer "John Doe Middle School"
or may be he would answer " the board of education" knowing that he could be transferred
from one school to another within the same system in one day for no obvious reason.
I personally had this idea.
Teaching was not a job. It was not even… Continue
Added by William Lambert on March 25, 2009 at 3:30pm —
No Comments
I am a former teacher in the Memphis City school system. I have an experience I would like
to share. You decide if you can use the concepts.
I had a second job at a neighborhood community center at night.
Color Video cameras had just come on the market. I bought one to use in my teaching effort. I found some unusually
cool hand puppets on sale and I bought them. I got this great Idea.
At my community center job I used an overturned table, a small 13 inch… Continue
Added by William Lambert on March 25, 2009 at 6:04am —
No Comments
You can buy software for less than $50.00
Wheras you can place edcational videos pf your students performing task(looking good)
This can bring an excitement to your class
NOLEARN=NOTEACH
If they aren’t learning..Then you aren’t teaching
I didn’t always believe the concept that is inferred in the title of this article. I once thought that I was one super extraordinary teacher, the fact that 75% of my students had “F’s” was not important. My thought was that if they got bad grades it was because they wanted bad grades. (I sure made it easy enough by giving excellent explanations and commentary on the lessons.) I did all I was supposed to do and… Continue
Added by William Lambert on February 17, 2009 at 8:40am —
No Comments
What is it? By definition “an example serving as a model; pattern”
Every teacher has one; but most teachers don’t realize what their paradigm is.
Your paradigm determines how well you do every little teaching task that you do.
But first let me give you some examples.
Here are some examples of teacher paradigms.
“My job is to present the lesson. It’s up to the student to learn the… Continue
Added by William Lambert on February 17, 2009 at 8:39am —
No Comments