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Dear 1st years...

2009-04-30T05:43:50Z

Bienvenidos a Mississippi Teacher Corps! Let me say this: you have no idea what you are getting yourself into! This experience will impact the rest of your life. Don't ever think you have figured out the answers...many have come before and many ...

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What to know as a first year...

2008-04-29T03:04:33Z

3. Try not to come in with expectations of what things will be like. There is no set "Teacher Corps Experience." The only thing you can pretty much bank on is that things will be difficult. No matter how much training they try to cram in this summ...

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You want to apply to MTC?

2007-10-11T02:44:58Z

You want to feel like you are making a difference? You want to get paid enough money for what you do? You want to teach so that you only have to work M-F 8-3 and have the summers free? You want to "try this out" because you're not sure what you wa...

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One of my favorites :)

2007-10-11T01:39:02Z

DG has become one of my favorite students. The first memory I have of DG is one day when he was sick at the beginning of the year. His seat was in the first row by the wall. He raised his hand to ask a question about an assignment. I slowly walked...

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following some advice

2007-08-10T05:07:18Z

From Wong: 3 Ways to Take Roll Efficiently and Effectively 1. Look at your class and refer to your seating chart. Mark whoever is absent. I assigned each kid a number. I made the seating chart. I taped the numbers on the desks (to my...

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wow...this is intense :)

2007-08-10T04:17:24Z

My homeroom. Oh my homeroom. I love you - I really do. You are a handful and I'm not really sure what to do with you. Supposedly we are to help you with ¨character development.¨ I just want you to have a break in the day from class...behave when I...

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scary movie part II

2007-07-22T02:34:37Z

...another taping of me teaching. It was okay I guess. I'm still saying "okay" at the end of almost every sentence! One student was absent the day I recorded so I am only teaching to one student. The lesson was effective - notes and practice on ar...

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the scary movie

2007-07-08T00:00:21Z

featuring...yours truly haha I hate watching myself on video, but it is helpful to see the areas where I need to improve. I taped my "Intro to Algebra" lesson and in the middle of explaining variables, I realized I had confused myself. My kids tr...

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Questioning

2007-06-23T18:08:51Z

I think I generally follow knowledge-level questions with higher-leveled questions as I teach, but for my lesson on exponents I tried to plan out specific questions and navigate through the topic based on higher level questions to emphasize critic...

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focus paper blog

2007-06-17T00:56:57Z

I have always been interested in exercise and nutrition due to the fact that my mom is a personal trainer and lives and breathes fitness. Lily Chang-Chien’s focus paper on Nutrition in Schools interested me because of the relationship between a pe...

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