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“I am grateful for women everywhere.” – Doc Meek
August 26th, 2013 | 
Author: Today I am full of gratitude for women and mothers and grandmothers everywhere. They make the world work. I am also grateful for Janelle Cox, Elementary Education Guide, for her back-to-school guest newsletter below.
– Doc Meek, Mon, Aug 26, 2013, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
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“Learning Personality Tests are Important.” – Pat Wyman
Today I am full of gratitude for the differences in student personality. – Doc Meek, Sat, Aug 17, 2013, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA
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“Parents, teachers and tutors worldwide are raving about our award-winning Playbook for Learning.” – Jen Lilienstein
This is our guest HowToLearn.com Newsletter from Pat Wyman. Thank you, Pat!
| Pat Wyman, The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, Inc., 4535 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 200, Las Vegas, NV 89102 |
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“Cooperative and Active Learning.” – Rob Plevin
Today I am full of gratitude for the high impact that cooperative and active learning have for students. I am also grateful for my cyber colleague, Rob Plevin, and my dear friend Merrill Harmin, who encourage all students to be more active in their own learning processes and in overcoming their own learning difficulties. – Doc Meek, Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA, Fri, Aug 16, 2013
P.S. Nice to get your great newsletter below, Rob!
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Dear Doc,
Our summer sale bonanza is coming to an end very soon.
We only have one more product to run at discount plus another ‘secret’ product which I may announce very soon (you don’t want to miss that one if we do decide to run it).
For now, the product we have at HALF OFF is…
Cooperative and Active Learning in Lessons
…and it’s on sale for just THREE MORE DAYS – until Monday 19th August.
This is actually one of my favourite resources – I loved putting this together because it contains a lot of the activities that my students enjoyed when I used to teach. In fact, the activities are so good, I now use them in our live courses and workshops.
The activities are suitable for practically any age group and any subject – with minimal adaptation – and you’ll find them PERFECT if you’re looking for ways to…
- Get students working together cooperatively (Hint: this is one of the EASIEST ways to reduce behaviour problems and improve participation – even bored, switched off students get a huge kick from working like this).
- Put more ACTIVITY in your lessons – you’ve no-doubt heard that a large proportion of ‘troublesome’ students tend to be kinesthetic learners. If you try and teach these students using didactic, lecture-style methods they will HATE it! The way to make subjects accessible and appealing to these students is to include some activity in the learning tasks – get them on their feet and ‘doing’ stuff. These activities will enable you to make any subject more ‘hands-on’.
- Make subject content STICK – It’s obvious, when students are truly engaged in the learning process there is much more chance that the information you give them will actually be remembered. The activities in this resource will give you countless ways to INVOLVE all your students in fun, interactive ways they will LOVE.
The pack includes:
- Cooperative and active learning templates and activities
- Fun grouping tips
- Instructions for managing super-enjoyable and successful group work sessions
- Active teaching strategies
- Editable print-ready resource templates
- Novel ideas for getting ALL your students involved
- And much much more…
Click here to get your copy for HALF OFF (three more days only)
Best wishes,
Rob Plevin
PS remember, our sale is coming to an end very, very soon so this is your last chance to take advantage of the other products on sale here.
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“Solve every learning challenge!” – Doc Meek
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| Today I am full of gratitude just to be alive. 😮 – Doc Meek, Thursday, August 1, 2013, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA. P.S. And I am grateful for Rob Plevin and his good work with classroom teachers in Great Britain and the world over (see his email to me below). – Doc |
Dear Doc,
How to manage your class without saying a word (it really works!)
Are you frustrated by the feeling that your students simply aren’t listening to you? Does it feel as though your students aren’t taking your instructions seriously?
If so, you’ll enjoy this webinar replay – Talk Less – Teach More (Non-Verbal Classroom Management) – with renowned teacher trainer Pearl Nitsche.
In this exciting training webinar Pearl presents a huge number of practical, powerful communication tips and tools that can be implemented immediately in the classroom – and that allow you to do precisely what you actually became a teacher to do – teach!
If you are fed up of spending too much time giving instructions & constant verbal reminders to your students (only to have them completely ignore you) please make sure to book your FREE place on this webinar where you’ll learn a MUCH EASIER and far MORE EFFECTIVE way of managing your students – by actually talking LESS!
The best thing is… you can access the replay PLUS the transcript PLUS a bonus report AND a certificate of attendance for just $1 !!!
http://www.classroom-expert.
BTW you’ll really enjoy this – Pearl is a GIFTED trainer.
Best Wishes,
Rob Plevin
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“Careers in Education.” – Melissa Kelly
Today I am grateful for Melissa Kelly, your Guide to Secondary Education, who sends me such useful newsletters, which I am happy to pass on to my readers. – Doc Meek, Monday, July 15, 2013, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
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“I am grateful for the USA.” – Doc Meek
To All Our Friends and Family Far & Near,
Both of us (Doc & Jeannette Meek) are dual Citizens of Canada and the United States of America.
We are citizens of Canada by birth and citizens of the USA by naturalization.
We celebrated Canada on Canada Day, Monday, July 1, 2013.
Today, Thurs, July 4, 2013, we are celebrating our second home in the USA.
We are proud to be dual citizens, and love both Canada and the USA, and the
citizens of Canada and the USA.
Loving Kindness, Collins (Doc) and Jeannette Meek
Today we are grateful for the United States of America, both its current citizens and those who went before us to make today possible. – Doc & Jeannette Meek, Thursday, July 4, 2013, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA, and South Jordan, Utah, USA.
P.S. We have had a request for the national anthem of the United States of America, “The Star-Spangled Banner”:
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
O say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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“I am grateful for Canada.” – Doc Meek
CANADA DAY, July 1, 2013
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To All Our Friends and Family Far & Near,
We are both dual Citizens of Canada and the US.
We celebrate Canada on Canada Day, Monday, July 1, 2013.
We are grateful to be Canadians by birth and to know and love Canada and Canadians.
In a few days, July 4, we will also celebrate our second home in the US.
Loving Kindness, Collins (Doc) and Jeannette Meek
Today we are grateful for Canada, its current citizens and those who went before us to make today possible. – Doc & Jeannette Meek, Monday, July 1, 2013, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA, and South Jordan, Utah, USA.
P.S. We have had a request for Canada’s National Anthem. Here it is in English and French (since Canada is a bilingual country):
O CANADA
O Canada! Our home and native land!
O Canada! Terre de nos aïeux,
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux!
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
Car ton bras sait porter l’épée,
The True North strong and free!
Il sait porter la croix!
From far and wide, O Canada,
Ton histoire est une épopée
we stand on guard for thee.
Des plus brillants exploits.
God keep our land glorious and free!
Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.
– Link for above and for the history of Canada’s National Anthem:
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“Young kids going international.” – Doc Meek
Today I am grateful for those who have the courage to reach out across the world to other nations in a peaceful loving way, and for those who bring the world home to the classroom. I am also grateful to the New York Times for the following article by Jack Healy.
– Doc Meek, Sunday, June 30, 2013, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA.
 Photo by Michael Friberg for The New York Times |
Chinese art at Wasatch Elementary School, where 360 students take Mandarin classes. Officials say a bilingual work force could lure international companies.
A State Seeks to Be Heard
in a New World Economy
Article by JACK HEALY; Published: April 19, 2013 in the New York Times
Chinese art at Wasatch Elementary School, where 360 students take Mandarin classes. Officials say a bilingual work force could lure international companies.
“If I close my eyes, I see a room full of Chinese children,” said Colleen Densley, the principal of Wasatch Elementary School here in central Utah, recalling the words of one amazed teacher. “If I open my eyes I see my American students.”
For generations, Mormon missionaries from Utah have crisscrossed the globe and returned home speaking Tagalog and Xhosa. Now, with hopes of preparing students for a competitive world economy, the state is building one of the largest and most ambitious school-language programs in the nation.
Dual-language classes have existed for years, but they are now growing fast in many states as an outcry against bilingual education fades and educators look for ways to prepare American students for a polyglot global job market. But few have embraced the idea with such unlikely zeal as Utah, a state that passed an English-only law in 2000 and routinely ranks last in the nation on education spending, according to United States Census figures.
In foreign languages, however, Utah now sees a highway to the world economy. Republicans in Salt Lake City, the state capital, have pledged millions for the program. Four years after it began, nearly half of Utah’s 41 school districts offer programs in which elementary school students spend half the day learning in English and half in a foreign language. There are 14,000 students enrolled and 20,000 signed up for next year.
In Utah, where economic growth is being driven by surging exports of gold and silver, airplane engines and computer memory, industry leaders say a bilingual work force could help lure international companies to the state and would make Utah’s graduates stronger candidates for jobs in, say, Beijing, London or São Paulo.
Educators and parents say the program is about academic development, not preparing Mormon students to proselytize overseas. Yet they said Utah’s immigrant communities and the overseas peregrinations of its large Mormon population make it fertile ground to teach foreign languages.
“From the very beginnings of Utah, it’s been part of our culture,” said Gov. Gary R. Herbert in an interview, “the missionary effort of going out and living in foreign lands.”
The dual language programs start in first grade, and will eventually extend through middle school, with students taking advanced placement tests in ninth grade and then studying at a college level through the rest of high school. Right now, they can take classes in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin. German is likely to be next, and educators have discussed Arabic.
Most of the programs are designed to teach native English speakers. But in corners of the state with more Latino immigrants, the state has also set up classes where Spanish speakers are taught together, in both English and Spanish.
Studies of other immersion programs have found that students do just as well, or better, on standardized tests as students in English-only classrooms, with the added bonus that they picked up a new language while learning state capitals and multiplication tables.
“There’s no way to learn another language as easily or as successfully,” said Myriam Met, a consultant who has worked on Utah’s immersion programs.
The teachers — most of them from other countries — teach regular subjects like mathematics and reading and social studies, only speaking exclusively in a foreign language. At first, they pantomime and use pictures and videos to get their point across, but they say the students can understand them within a few weeks.
Students in the immersion programs are graded normally, and have to take the same standardized tests as their peers. That can pose a problem in areas like science. Schools have to make sure that students who learned the Mandarin words for “photosynthesis” and “chlorophyll” can also recognize the terms on an English-language standardized tests.
So far, however, the program has amounted to a transformation. At Chinese-speaking schools, red paper lanterns dangle from the ceiling like ripe fruit, and maps of China are taped to the wall. Taiwanese and American flags hang in classrooms. Cafeterias serve pot stickers, and schools celebrate the Chinese New Year.
At Lone Peak Elementary in the town of Sandy, students grooved along one morning as their teacher played a Chinese hip-hop song. The school’s principal, McKay Robinson, stood at the back of the classroom, keeping quiet, mindful not to break the rule posted on the classroom door: “No English Please.”At Wasatch Elementary, where 360 of the school’s 860 students are in Mandarin immersion classes, officials made the faculty lounge an English-only zone so all the teachers could understand one another.
Parents, wary at first, have rushed to enter lotteries to place their children in the programs. Some school districts have waiting lists 100 students long. Some parents drive 30 miles to bring their children to class, or have even moved to be closer to an immersion school.
Holli Gardner knew the classes had taken root when her first-grade son, Talan, said a prayer before dinner in Portuguese. Jody Katz’s two sons, Jonah and Simon, will whisper to each other in Mandarin.
“This is something I could never teach my kid,” said Alison Memmott, 41, whose fourth-grader, Ella, has been studying Mandarin since she was in first grade.
A few months ago, Ms. Memmott’s family attended an exhibition by visiting Chinese artists in Salt Lake City, and Ella chatted up one of the artists in Mandarin. Within a few minutes, Ms. Memmott said, all of the artists were laughing and joking with the girl and invited Ella to return to Beijing with them.
“They said there are lots of boys in China she could marry,” Ms. Memmott said. “I said no thanks.”
A version of this article appeared in print on April 20, 2013, on page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: A State Seeks to Be Heard in a New World Economy.
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Year-end tips for elementary teachers, from Janelle Cox
Friday, June 7, 2013 @ 107 Gainsboro Place, Alberta, CANADA
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Today I am grateful for Janelle Cox.
Her tips and resources for teachers and parents of elementary school pupils is so valuable. – Doc Meek
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Year-end tips for secondary teachers, from Melissa Kelly
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Monday, June 3, 2013, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
Today I am grateful for Melissa Kelly, Your Guide to Secondary Education, who sends me great newsletters with valuable tips and all kinds of great help for teachers. – Doc Meek
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