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Monthly archives for March, 2011

10 Ways to Pass the Time While on Duty

10 Ways to Pass the Time While on Duty

This week I have DUTY. For those of you who are new to teaching or working toward your teaching career, DUTY one of those wish-I-didn’t-have-to-do-this part of your job. What happens is that the administration will give you random assignments before or after school where you will be asked monitor students as they arrive or […]

Two Strategies to Teach a Tough Concept

Two Strategies to Teach a Tough Concept

  Hello all, Yesterday, I had to teach my students about the Fugitive Slave Act. This was a law that allowed slave owners to go up to the North and retrieve their runaway slaves. It was part of the Compromise of 1850, and one of the causes of the American Civil War. It’s a pretty tough […]