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Thursday, May 10, 2012. Today, I am grateful for parents, teachers & students who endure.  – Doc Meek

Do You or Your Student or Your Child Have Reading Difficulties or Learning Difficulties? 

What if you are smarter than you think?

Einstein had overwhelming learning difficulties at school, and look at the creativity and accomplishment he brought to his life.

Click for image of Einstein: http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2011/09/the_timeless_wi.shtml

A series of articles to help mothers, teachers & students with reading problems is at: docmeek.com/mothers

Doc Meek, Thurs, May 10, 2012, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

“What if you are smarter than you think?”

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Sunday, March 25, 2012. Today I am grateful for those at www.TeacherPlanet.com who help teachers and students get the most out of school! – Doc Meek

Newsletter Issue #419- March 26, 2012 – Now over 140,000 Subscribers Worldwide How do you teach child safety in your classroom? Visit Got 2B Safe! to share your lesson plan demonstrating how you teach theGot 2B Safe! personal safety rules and be entered for a chance to win a $10,000 classroom makeover. While you’re there you can also download a free education safety kit! This Week at TeacherPlanet Share:  Facebook Twitter Forward to a Friend Hello Doc, You are receiving this complimentary newsletter because you subscribed at one of our TeacherPlanetwebsites. We hope that you find all of our resources useful. If you need to contact us, you can do so here. What’s New? Did you know that the month of April is Math Awareness Month? This issue of our newsletter focuses on math as well as April Fool’s Day fun! Lesson Plans April Fool’s Day is also known as All Fool’s Day. It is a holiday that is celebrated around the world. They even celebrate it in Japan, Russia, and South Africa. This means that while you and your students play jokes on each other, you can also teach them about other cultures and traditions! Theme Units April is a very exciting time because it is Math Awareness Month! This year’s theme is“Mathematics, Statistics, and the Data Deluge” Visit the TeacherPlanet Math theme page for lesson plans and resources as well as the Math Awareness page at MathGoodies.com! Worksheets & Printables Celebrate the arrival of Spring in your classroom with these great Spring Worksheets atWorksheets4teachers.com Vote Now Which of these attributes do you look for most in a Free publishing program? -Fun and easy to use -Engages my students -Motivates my reluctant writers -All of the above So far, voters want it all in a Free publish program! What do you think? — vote here! Teacher Tools This week’s featured teacher tool – Math Numeracy Tools – 55 Interactive teaching tools for Mathematics- can be a great asset when incorporating Math Awareness month into a lesson! Submit Your Ideas What do you want to see in our newsletter? Perhaps you have some ideas, articles, worksheets or webquests? Please submit your ideas by visiting this page. We’ll be sure to list your name as the author! Make the most of your valuable time and money by earning an  from WGU.  At WGU your  will be highly respected, flexible, and affordable with tuition that is half the cost of “for-profit” universities. Now is the best time to further your career with WGU. Other TeacherPlanet Features . Share:  Facebook Twitter Forward to a Friend Quote of the Week “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way” – J.C. Maxwell Grants for Teachers Find over 1000 Grant Opportunities for Teachers at Grants4Teachers.com Featured Grant this week: Shirley G. Benerofe Foundation Grants Joke of the Week Many answers to the age old question “Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? “ Degrees for Teachers Online Masters and Doctoral Degrees in Education at Teacherscollege.net Featured Schools: Western Governors University – Online Masters Degree … …. ……… …. ……Nova Southeastern University – M.A.T.L. online. … …. ……… …. ……Drexel University – Master of Education … …. ……… …. ……University of Cincinnati – Master’s Degree Online Certificate of the Week This week’s featured Certificate: Bike Riding Certificate Try our Certificate Builder! It lets you create unlimited, customized printable certificates for each of your students. eBooks and Posters This Week’s Featured eBook for Teachers: Math Amazements: Astounding Investigations Uncover Math in Your World(Grades 5 -8) This Week’s Featured Classroom Poster: Catch a Rainbow Assessment Rubrics This week we are featuring a Math Problem Solving Rubric at Rubrics4teachers.com ESL Resources This week at ESL4Teachers.com – “ESL Word Games”

Thank you, TeacherPlanet.com for your educational leadership!

Doc Meek, Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

Saturday, February 18, 2012. Today I am grateful for teachers and parents who teach critical thinking in their classrooms and in their homes. – Doc Meek

Image from: www.CriticalThinking.com

Excerpts from a newsletter from CriticalThinking.com:

Teaching ideas to inspire a love of thinking and problem-solving!

• Monopoly
  It was in the month of February, 1934, when Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, showed what he called the MONOPOLY game to the executives at Parker Brothers. The game was rejected due to 52 design errors, but this didn’t stop the creative, unemployed Pennsylvanian. He went on to hand-make and sell 5000 copies of the game. The rest is history. To this day, Monopoly, the most popular money game in America, is available in 103 countries, has been translated into 41 languages, and has sold over 200 million copies. Prepare yourself for the next family game of Monopoly with this free printable activity from our award winning fourth grade book, Mathematical Reasoning Level E.
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• Propaganda
  Debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates are currently a hot topic in the media. These debates receive lots of radio and news coverage and candidates often sound quite convincing in their arguments. How do we really know if the candidates are sticking to facts? How do we become more critical of their techniques to convince us to vote for them? Try this free activity from the chapter, “Propaganda,” found in Critical Thinking Book 1. You’ll have a whole new set of cognitive tools to analyze the debates.
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• Random Acts of Kindness Week – February 13th-19th
  February 13th-19th marks Random Acts of Kindness Week. Here at The Critical Thinking Co.™, we don’t wait for this week to come around every year in order to practice random acts of kindness; we do it all year round!The Critical Thinking Co.™ donates two or more free products to children in need every time an order is placed. Over the past year we donated tens of thousands of books and software. With your help, this year we will donate more than 100,000 educational products through our Critical Giving program. The Critical Thinking Co.™ encourages you to step into the spirit of Kindness Week and Refer a Friend to our company to receive a free $15 Amazon gift card.

  For more information about this important week you can visitwww.randomactsofkindness.org/RAK-Week/.

  “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Thank you, CriticalThinking.com, for your classroom leadership!

  Doc Meek, Sat, Feb 18, 2012, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

Thursday, January 26, 2012. Today I am very grateful for teachers and prospective teachers, the world over. ~ Doc Meek, Teacher/Learning Specialist

Image from: http://amid-the-olive-trees.blogspot.com/2011/08/yin-yang-you.html

I am also very grateful for Melissa Kelly, Secondary Education Guide at ABOUT.COM, who sends me newsletters.

Here are some excerpts from Melissa Kelly’s recent newsletter to me about teacher pay, and other things:

ABOUT.COM: Secondary Education

Wednesday, October 13, 2010. Today I am grateful that legitimate disputes can often be settled amicably by mediation and its variants. Such alternatives are often preferable to court action.

Entrance of the Queen’s Bench of Alberta building (Calgary)

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” – Horace Mann

Dr. Merrill Harmin, in his famous book, Strategies to Inspire Active Learning: Complete Handbook [for teachers], gives us the common-sense idea that if a student in the your classroom (or by analogy, a child in your home) is continually acting out of line, you can speak to them privately.

Line Drawing:Teacher lecturing student

From there on, though, his suggestions get seemingly odd.

Dr. Harmin says that the purpose of the private dialogue is just that, to have a private dialogue. Not to give them a lecture. It gets even odder. He then says that the goal of the private dialogue is not–as you might think–to get the student (child) to change his/her behavior.

What? I thought that was the whole idea. “Nope,” says my wise friend.

Guess what?

The goal of the private dialogue is to start to build a relationship between the teacher and the student (or between the parent and the child).

Amazingly, one of the key requirements is for the adult to listen, not the younger person so much. The younger person is not simply an inferior adult. They are persons in their own right, having their own life, and their own preferences about learning and their own dreams and life purposes.

If we as adults wish to actually influence younger people for good on a lifetime basis (not just get them to conform to our momentary demands), it is vital that we listen with respect, even if their performance or behavior is out of line.

The listening with respect, the building of a relationship is the basis for all change (learning).

Astute teachers and mothers know this without being told. Fathers can learn it too. 😮

Caring, Respect, and even Honor,

Doc Meek, Thursday, June 3, 2010

At Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA; not at South Jordan, Utah, USA

P.S. We as adults can have a lot of “fun” learning this change within ourselves: caring, respecting, honoring and listening to young people.

It is short-term so satisfying–in a perverse sort of way–to just lecture them. Our egos love it! Our lecture may change their behavior temporarily (as long as we remain present). It will not engender long-term self-responsibility and self-management in the younger person, which is, after all, ultimately the goal of all education (and all family life), right?

P.S.S. Hey this is really wacko! You mean to tell me that the purpose of  lecturing . . . uh . . . dialoguing  with . . . a younger person is to get me–me–to change (learn), not them? Yup. Real challenge isn’t it? That’s how many students (and children at home) feel about the changes (learnings) being required of them.

Parents (and teachers) may wish to explore the idea that we may be yelling at our kids too much. Copy and paste this URL in your computer’s browser line:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Are-You-Yelling-At-Your-Child-Too-Much?-Nine-Ways-to-Getting-Better-Behavior-from-Your-Children&id=156475