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		<title>The New (but really old) Quiet Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The school-master, always severe, grew severer and more exacting than ever, for he wanted the school to make a good showing on &#8216;Examination&#8217; day. His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now &#8212; at least among the smaller pupils.&#8221;  -Mark Twain in Tom Sawyer There is a common misconception about the nuns back in the day. Everybody assumes that they did their all their whackin&#8217; on us with rulers and yardsticks. That is untrue. They only used rulers on us if it happened to be during math class when we were measuring something. Otherwise it was THE POINTER. The nuns at St. Mel&#8217;s never deigned to actually touch the chalkboard, or the chalk for that matter. The dust might soil the habit. (Our nuns even wore the old school wimples, with the stiff, high cardboard up front.) So they used chalk holders to write with, preloaded by one of us assigned to the task. They used us to erase the boards and to clap out the erasers. (The latter was actually sort of a coveted job, because it got you out of class for 5 minutes or so&#8230;even if you did come home yellow and sneezing.) And they never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There&#8217;s already something on the back of mine.&#8221; (Also: Racial Harmony.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was our first day back in the classroom after 8 days in the library. We were all glad to be back. &#8220;Oh, my clicker&#8230;how I&#8217;ve missed you.&#8221; One of them actually said that. OMG. What a day. Full of action, and laugh after laugh. First there was the video. YouTube is blocked in our district. Our head of IST keeps bleating about CIPA and how YouTube doesn&#8217;t filter, and&#8230;anyway, we can&#8217;t use YouTube. But finally, they created a workaround for us. We have to do things from home rather than from school, but it works OK. We find the YouTube video we want to use, and copy the URL. Then we go to the district&#8217;s &#8220;safe video portal&#8221; and paste it in. Then we can approve our own video, and use the safe portal to show it at school. It&#8217;s a bit clunky, but it works fine. Yesterday I added a video. I hadn&#8217;t even showed it yet, when I got an e-mail from my principal. I have only added a couple of videos before, but both of them were of the nutty variety, rather than the &#8220;educational&#8221; sort.  One of them is near the top of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Gotta Have a Shtick (or a stick).</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I like to say about teaching junior high is down at the bottom of this page in the footer. You&#8217;re too lazy to scroll, aren&#8217;t you? Fine. &#8220;Five shows a day, 180 days a year.&#8221; And there aren&#8217;t many crowds tougher than 7th graders. &#8220;This is boring.&#8221; The worst of all sins. Most of us who teach junior high have a shtick. A role we play, some isms we like to use again and again. Idiosyncrasies we play up for entertainment/attention value (oh the sharing I get when we talk about that word idiosyncrasy during &#8220;Monsters are Due on Maple Street&#8220;). The key is to make the shtick such a natural part of the classroom routine, that it doesn&#8217;t distract too much. Well, sometimes we need the distraction. There&#8217;s the Raffle King. There&#8217;s the Timer. There are the clickers. The Cage. Mental Floss. Nutty videos. MYOB. All of these are stalwart features of my classroom shtick. And as of a few years ago, there&#8217;s also the Quiet Stick. (four or five years ago &#8211; me visiting another teacher&#8217;s classroom before school) &#8220;Leenie! What the shiggy are you doing? Where&#8217;d you get this, and WHY ARE YOU [...]]]></description>
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