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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; CPS</title>
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	<description>Middle school teaching: Five shows a day, 180 days a year.</description>
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		<title>Clicker Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seventh Grade Behavior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just don&#8217;t know what to make of this year&#8217;s bunch. At first, they were looking good, mainly because they were NOT the ones from last year. Oh baby, I&#8217;m glad that crowd has moved on (well most of them anyway), and now the crabby eighth grade teachers actually have something to be crabby about. Hey wait a minute! I&#8217;m one of those eighth grade teachers this year. (I keep forgetting that, eighth grade or no, they are still very much in junior high. But they try to remind me almost daily that they can be just as out to lunch and gluey as seventh graders. But with attitude.) The seventh grade noobs were still looking good as I was checking out our new subscription to DataDirector, and their state test scores. Less than 20% below proficient, as defined by the state. The year before, that number was closer to 30%. Ok so far. They all had a planner on opening day. Oh yeah. We gave those out on that first day this year. Well, all but two of them still have it now. The sit and stare phase lasted much longer than usual, which is usually a sign of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faux Pas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories of Seventh Grade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you&#8217;re milking a joke for more laughs, it&#8217;s easy to, well, go a bit further than you intended&#8230; I think this one might haunt me for awhile. The CPS clickers have a feature where if a question has, for example, only two choices (as in a T/F question), and the kid clicks a choice beyond A or B, the screen shows a red X for that kid, indicating that (s)he has clicked something that is not one of the choices. Now remember, seventh graders are the epitome of the expression, &#8220;monkey see, monkey do.&#8221; Once one of them starts &#8220;red x&#8217;ing,&#8221;  more than half the class is at it. (Attention EInstruction: make it a feature that every time, after the first couple, a kid gets the red X, it makes the answer incorrect. Maybe even have some sort of thing where it takes a point away for every red X?) For some of them it&#8217;s their &#8220;thing,&#8221; so once they&#8217;re done, the screen is a sea of flashing red X&#8217;s. (There are also kids, who when they&#8217;re finished early, have races to see who can click from one to the end more quickly.) Over the course of time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everybody&#8217;s Special Now. (EInstruction Rules!)</title>
		<link>http://teachingtheoutsiders.com/everybodys-special-now-einstruction-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seventh Grade Behavior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had my clickers for three years, and I use them almost every day, and they&#8217;re starting to show their age. This year&#8217;s crowd also seems to be dropping them a whole lot more (&#8220;Ten cents!&#8220;), and I still haven&#8217;t replaced any of the batteries, so I guess it&#8217;s sort of a miracle they&#8217;re working at all. With the constant dropping, the batteries have been shaking loose more often, and that means I have to hear the plaintive, &#8220;My cliiiiiiicker doesn&#8217;t wooooooooork.&#8221; &#8220;Sounds like operator error to me. Bring it here&#8230;&#8221; And I have to use my little jeweler&#8217;s screwdriver to take off the battery cover, and adjust the batteries back into place. Over the past few months, the threads have been stripping on some of the battery covers, making the battery problem worse, and thus there have been more clicker &#8220;issues&#8221; and more whining. So I called EInstruction and asked if they could just send me some battery covers and screws. I could have my servants service all the injured clickers, and we&#8217;d be back in business for minimal cost. The service rep put me on hold for a few minutes. When she returned, she tells me that those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Near Catastrophe</title>
		<link>http://teachingtheoutsiders.com/near-catastrophe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I came much closer to a catastrophic tech failure than I&#8217;m used to. And it happened live in class. Now, as my loyal readers may have guessed, I don&#8217;t have many tech failures, beyond finicky overhead bulbs and such. (In fact, I get to play the Fonz quite a bit with my overhead. It must have a loose connection to the bulb, because if I&#8217;m a bit too forceful in my pointing with my pen, the bulb goes out. So then I whack it a certain way on the side, and it works again. I bat about .900 with the restoring whack, and I give the thumbs up, but none of them know who the Fonz was. They are still slightly awed in their seventh grade way. It&#8217;s even better when I do the backside kick to my class computer &#8211; it&#8217;s on the floor under my center table &#8211; to quiet the occasionally noisy cooling fan. They love that one. ) First, I am mostly religious about backing up data. My CPS databases are on a flash drive which is backed up to my space on the school server (which is supposedly backed up nightly) and every now and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing God (Part One)</title>
		<link>http://teachingtheoutsiders.com/playing-god-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Giver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m out of action for family bidness tomorrow and Friday, so today was my last day of 2009.  I accidentally leaked the info early to one period, (the girls&#8217; club) so they brought snacks today and sorta forced me into a &#8220;party&#8221; of sorts. I have never been able to resist a good snickerdoodle, or two, or ten. So that meant that I had to shorten things up in the other periods too&#8230;so it was sort of a nutty day today. But in the 2 1/2 days I had to work with this week&#8230; (Aside: I&#8217;m breaking a perfect record of never having showed a movie in class, ever in 20 years. But this time I&#8217;m having the sub roll the cheesy Outsiders movie tomorrow and Friday while I&#8217;m gone. They&#8217;ve been begging for weeks, and I&#8217;ve been telling them to &#8220;wake up&#8221; from the dream, but this will be my little Christmas present to them.) &#8230;we did a little Giver epilogue and what-have-you. Yesterday, we discussed a few &#8220;literary&#8221; type questions. #4. The denouement (resolution) of  The Giver is when Jonas slides down the hill on the sled with Gabriel.  a) True  b) False Trick Question! FALSE! There is [...]]]></description>
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