Saturday, April 26, 2014

MzTeachuh: Next Week's Lesson Plans 4/26/14

MzTeachuh: Next Week's Lesson Plans 4/26/14: If this really happens... Quick lessons to go. Fun activities and time fillers for teachers, students, homeschoolers...

Next Week's Lesson Plans 4/26/14


If this really happens... Quick lessons to go. Fun activities and time fillers for teachers, students, homeschoolers and parents.http://www.pedagonet.com/quickies/quickies.html

These links may help you develop plans for current events.

CNN Student News

http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

Student Daily News

http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/

These links will give depth to your lesson plans:

Inequities in Student Discipline: What To Do About Them

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/inequities-student-discipline-what-to-do-anne-obrien

Are You Tech-Ready for the Common Core?

http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2012/10/17/01readiness.h06.html

By Not Challenging Gifted Kids, What Do We Risk Losing?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/what-do-we-risk-losing-by-not-challenging-gifted-kids/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

These links make you move---everyone.

Teacher needs to move, too.

Students Learn That Active Bodies Lead to Active Minds

http://www.edutopia.org/teaching-physical-activity

Classroom Exercises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9sZwCua83Q

Brain breaks and classroom exercise

http://www.pinterest.com/mmeescargot/brain-breaks-and-classroom-exercise/

The Importance of Play in Preparing for Standardized Testing

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/play-with-standardized-test-prep-matt-levinson

These links will help keep you organized (and sane.)

Tips for Organizing Your Testing Efficiently and Getting the Best From Your Students

http://www.heidisongs.com/blog/2013/05/tips-for-organizing-your-testing.html

Classroom Organization Resources

https://www.teachervision.com/classroom-management/resource/5803.html

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2012/12/teaching-is-having-sense-of-humor.html

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/26/14

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/26/14: A Day in the Life of a Special Education Teacher http://teaching.monster.com/careers/articles/8011-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-special-educa...

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/26/14

A Day in the Life of a Special Education Teacher

http://teaching.monster.com/careers/articles/8011-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-special-education-teacher

A day in the life of a Special Education teacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh1meBo_m1w

Creating a Master Schedule that Supports Inclusive Practices

http://education.wm.edu/centers/ttac/resources/articles/inclusion/creatingmasterschedule/index.php

More Evidence of Impaired Immune Response in Some Children with Autism

http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news/more-evidence-impaired-immune-response-some-children-autism?utm_source=email&utm_medium=text-link&utm_campaign=sciencedigest

Map Of The Developing Human Brain Shows Where Problems Begin

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2014/04/map-of-developing-human-brain-shows.html

MTV Puts Spotlight on Transition

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2014/04/25/mtv-spotlight-transition/19310/

Common-Assessment Groups Differ on Accommodations

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/04/23/29cc-accommodations.h33.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EducationWeekSpecialEducation+%28Education+Week%3A+Special+Education%29

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/26/13

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/26/13: Closing the Gender Gap in STEM Education Grades 6-12 / STEM / Representation https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/stem-gen...

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/26/13

Closing the Gender Gap in STEM Education

Grades 6-12 / STEM / Representation

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/stem-gender-gap-ced

3 Practical Tips For Using Open Resources In Your Classroom

http://www.edudemic.com/open-resources-in-your-classroom/

5 Golden Rules for Kids' Online Safety

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/04/the-5-golden-rules-for-kids-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+educatorstechnology%2FpDkK+%28Educational+Technology+and+Mobile+Learning%29

5 Bad Technology Habits Teachers Can Fall Into

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/5-bad-technology-habits-teachers-can-fall/

United States Videos For Geography Class

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2014/04/25/united-states-videos-for-geography-class/

This Is What We Share On Tablets

http://www.edudemic.com/tablet-sharing/

You can Google Like a Boss

http://www.mypaperlessclassroom.com/2014/04/you-can-google-like-boss.html

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Poems #20 and #21

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Poems #20 and #21: The Old Guitarist, Pablo Picasso La Guitarra, The Guitar Federico García Lorca Empieza el llanto de la guitarra. Se ...

National Poetry Month: Poems #20 and #21

The Old Guitarist, Pablo Picasso

La Guitarra, The Guitar

Federico García Lorca

Empieza el llanto
de la guitarra.
Se rompen las copas
de la madrugada.
Empieza el llanto
de la guitarra.
Es inútil callarla.
Es imposible
callarla.
Llora monótona
como llora el agua,
como llora el viento
sobre la nevada.
Es imposible
callarla.
Llora por cosas
lejanas.
Arena del Sur caliente
que pide camelias blancas.
Llora flecha sin blanco,
la tarde sin mañana,
y el primer pájaro muerto

sobre la rama.
¡Oh, guitarra!
Corazón malherido
por cinco espadas.

The Guitar

The weeping of the guitar
begins.
The goblets of dawn
are smashed.
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
Useless
to silence it.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps monotonously
as water weeps
as the wind weeps
over snowfields.
Impossible
to silence it.
It weeps for distant
things.
Hot southern sands
yearning for white camellias.
Weeps arrow without target
evening without morning
and the first dead bird
on the branch.
Oh,guitar!
Heart mortally wounded
by five swords.

Maybe the old guitarist was playing this:
Albéniz, Asturias (Leyenda), guitar solo, James Edwards (animation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvF8XWr17nw&feature=relmfu

Concert for Bangladesh, George Harrison

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

George Harrison

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don’t know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don’t know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don’t know how you were inverted
No one alerted you

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps

MzTeachuh: Chillaxin' With My Mommy

MzTeachuh: Chillaxin' With My Mommy: Mother and Child Leighton, Lord Frederick What Saturdays are for. Mother's Day, May 11.

Chillaxin' With My Mommy

Mother and Child Leighton, Lord Frederick

What Saturdays are for.
Mother's Day, May 14.

Friday, April 25, 2014

MzTeachuh: Who Doted on You?

MzTeachuh: Who Doted on You?: Detail from "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" by Leonardo da Vinci Mom and Grandma? Mother's Day May 11.

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Poem #19

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Poem #19: Pieter Brueghel, Kermesse (1567-8) The Dance William Carlos Williams In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess, the ...

National Poetry Month: Poem #19

Pieter Brueghel, Kermesse (1567-8)

The Dance

William Carlos Williams

In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and
around, the squeal and the blare and the
tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles
tipping their bellies (round as the thick-
sided glasses whose wash they impound)
their hips and their bellies off balance
to turn them. Kicking and rolling
about the Fair Grounds, swinging their butts, those
shanks must be sound to bear up under such
rollicking measures, prance as they dance
in Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess.

Who Doted on You?

Detail from "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" by Leonardo da Vinci

Mom and Grandma?
Mother's Day May 10.

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/25/14

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/25/14: Health & Safety Topics http://www.cdc.gov/ 37 Common Characteristics of Dyslexia http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.h...

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/25/14

Health & Safety Topics

http://www.cdc.gov/

37 Common Characteristics of Dyslexia

http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.htm

Types of Learning Disabilities and Learning Disorders and their Signs

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/learning_disabilities.htm

Writing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
For Success

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/iep.success.bateman.htm

Modeling the Parent-Teacher Strategies of Special Education

http://www.nea.org/home/16265.htm

What is the Special Education Resource Room?

http://specialed.about.com/od/idea/a/resourceroom.htm

Taming Your Special Education Paperwork: 5 Tips from a Pro

http://speducated.com/organize-paperwork/

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/25/14

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/25/14: http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/ Engineering is Elementary http://www.eie.org/ Choosing the Right Devices for Your Schools ...

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/25/14

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/

Engineering is Elementary
http://www.eie.org/

Choosing the Right Devices for Your Schools

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/03/04/choosing-right-mobile-devices-schools/

How Teachers Are Learning: Professional Development Remix

https://www.edsurge.com/

Four Steps for Jumpstarting Global-Collaboration Projects

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/04/15/ctq-curran-global-collaboration.html

Online Learning: The Pros And Cons Of K-12 Computer Courses

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/12/online-learning-pros-and-cons_n_848362.html?utm_hp_ref=education-technology

10 Technologies Of The Future That Might Actually Happen
http://www.edudemic.com/technologies-of-the-future/

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 4/25/14

MzTeachuh: MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 4/25/14: Who Took You By The Hand? http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/who-took-you-by-hand.html?spref=bl Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoug...

MzTeachuh's Top Posts of the Week 4/25/14

Who Took You By The Hand?

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/who-took-you-by-hand.html?spref=bl

Cheesy Jokes and Serious Thoughts for the Garden (These May Bug You)

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/cheesy-jokes-and-serious-thoughts-for.html

National Poetry Month: Poem #17

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/national-poetry-month-poem-17.html?spref=bl

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/special-needs-tweets-of-day-42414.html

Who Told You Stories and Sang You Songs?

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/who-told-you-stories-and-sang-you-songs.html

Teachable Moment: A Party Game for William's Birthday

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/teachable-moment-party-game-for.html

Check Out Edudemic

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/check-out-edudemic.html

Who's Praying for You?

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/whos-praying-for-you.html?spref=bl

Music for the Soundtrack of Your Classroom: Test Prep Time

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/music-for-soundtrack-of-your-classroom.html

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/ed-tech-and-stem-tweets-of-day-42414.html

So, How Are We Doing? Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

http://mzteachuh.blogspot.com/2014/04/so-how-are-we-doing-tweets-of-day-42414.html

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

MzTeachuh: Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/24/14: Gardening for Climate Change http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Gardening/Archives/2014/Gardening-for-Climate-C...

Ed Tech and STEM Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

Gardening for Climate Change

http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Gardening/Archives/2014/Gardening-for-Climate-Change.aspx

Love Video Games? Then It’s Time To Love Math

http://www.edudemic.com/love-video-games-time-love-math/

Modifying the Flipped Classroom: The "In-Class" Version
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-in-class-version-jennifer-gonzalez

The Best Education Technology Resources

http://www.edudemic.com/best-education-technology/

What Types of E-Books Are Best for Young Readers?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/what-types-of-e-books-are-best-for-young-readers/

How to Grab and Keep Girls’ Interest in Computer Coding

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/09/how-to-grab-and-keep-girls-interest-in-computer-coding/

Using RTI to Improve Learning in Mathematics

http://www.rtinetwork.org/learn/what/rtiandmath

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

MzTeachuh: Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/24/14: Special Tools for Special Needs: PalmPilots Help Kids Cope http://www.edutopia.org/special-tools-for-special-needs-palm-pilots-help-kid...

Special Needs Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

Special Tools for Special Needs: PalmPilots Help Kids Cope

http://www.edutopia.org/special-tools-for-special-needs-palm-pilots-help-kids-cope

The 200 Best Special Education Apps

http://www.edudemic.com/special-ed-apps/

Understanding Inclusion

http://www.specialeducationguide.com/pre-k-12/inclusion/whats-inclusion-theory-and-practice/

Positive Self-Talking to Help Children Cope with Angry Thoughts and Feelings

http://thepsychoeducationalteacher.blogspot.com/2014/04/positive-self-talking-to-help-children.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePsycho-educationalTeacher+%28The+Psycho-Educational+Teacher%29

How to Help Kids With Tricky Math Homework

http://ncld.org/students-disabilities/homework-study-skills/help-kids-tricky-math-homework

Supporting Student Resilience in the Classroom

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/supporting-student-resilience-in-classroom-steve-gardiner?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-supporting-student-resilience-in-cclasroom-link

New chairs help calm wiggles of students at SLC autism school, officials say

http://fox13now.com/2014/01/13/new-chairs-help-calm-wiggles-of-students-at-slc-autistim-school-officials-say/

MzTeachuh: So, How Are We Doing? Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

MzTeachuh: So, How Are We Doing? Tweets of the Day 4/24/14: Understanding Assessment: Resources for Parents http://www.edutopia.org/assessment-testing-parent-resources Common Core in Action...

So, How Are We Doing? Tweets of the Day 4/24/14

Understanding Assessment: Resources for Parents

http://www.edutopia.org/assessment-testing-parent-resources

Common Core in Action: Using the Arts to Spark Learning

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-and-creative-learning-courtney-boddie

Child Development 101: 8 Key Things to Know About How Kids Learn

http://ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/what-is-ld/child-development-key-things-how-kids-learn

The Teacher’s Guide To Badges In Education

http://www.edudemic.com/guides/the-teachers-guide-to-badges-in-education/

No Courses, No Classrooms, No Grades — Just Learning

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/no-courses-no-classrooms-no-grades-just-learning/

7 Survival Skills For Modern Teachers And Students

http://www.edudemic.com/7-survival-skills-modern-teachers-students/

Making It Stick

http://chronicle.com/article/Making-It-Stick/146143?cid=megamenu

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Not To Be Morbid Or Anythin...

MzTeachuh: National Poetry Month: Not To Be Morbid Or Anythin...: ...but poems seem to be about love or death. Or both. This Tennyson poem comforted Victoria when Albert passed. In Memoriam Canto ...

National Poetry Month: Not To Be Morbid Or Anything...

...but poems seem to be about love or death. Or both.

This Tennyson poem comforted Victoria when Albert passed.

In Memoriam Canto 27
Tennyson

I hold it true, whate'er befall;

I feel it when I sorrow most;

'Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.

Holy Sonnets X
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better than thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. .
- See more at: http://www.allspirit.co.uk/dying.html#dearest



72. "Death be not proud, though some have called thee"

DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,	5
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,	10
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

John Donne

The Chimney Sweeper

William Blake

When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head,
That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved: so I said,
"Hush, Tom! never mind it, for when your head's bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair."

And so he was quiet; and that very night,
As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight, -
That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.

And by came an angel who had a bright key,
And he opened the coffins and set them all free;
Then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run,
And wash in a river, and shine in the sun.

Then naked and white, all their bags left behind,
They rise upon clouds and sport in the wind;
And the angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,
He'd have God for his father, and never want joy.

And so Tom awoke; and we rose in the dark,
And got with our bags and our brushes to work.
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377#sthash.CwfQZi06.dpuf

Shakespeare, MacBeth

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last sylable of recorded time

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death

Out out brief candle

Life’s but a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more: it is a tale

told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing

The Cross of Snow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle face--the face of one long dead--
Looks at me from the wall, where round its head
The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.
Here in this room she died, and soul more white
Never through martyrdom of fire was led
To its repose; nor can in books be read
The legend of a life more benedight.
There is a mountain in the distant West
That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines
Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
And seasons, changeless since the day she died.