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THE REAL REASON TO TEACH

Love: The Real Reason to Teach Motivation can come from many sources. People can be motivated by fear. They can also be motivated by money. Competition can also motivate. True motivation, however, comes from doing what one loves to do. The love of teaching children is the purest form of motivation in education today. Leadership should recognize that quality in teachers and be wary of anything that destroys that desire. As I come to the close of thirty years ofHomework Study Skills Lessons From A Football QuarterbackThis time of year, my blood runs green and gold for the Green Bay Packers. My father grew up in Wisconsin during the Vince Lombardi era. I grew up in Detroit where people only complain about the Lions. I don't think it was ever a decision... I was born a Cheesehead. Last night, I watched the Packers "new" quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, in his starting debut. The drama was high... it was not only the first game of the season, but the first Monday Night FooTimes Tables, the Key to Your Child’s Success?Irvine, CA- When did you lose interest in math? Never had any? Maybe, but Eugenia Francis knows exactly when it started to happen to her son. The moment? The dread rite of passage all children face: the multiplication tables. As her son struggled with endless drills, Francis realized there had to be a better way. Why not learn the tables in context of one another and emphasize the commutative property (i.e. 4 x 6 is the same as 6 x 4) of the multiplication tables? Francis dreAnti-Bullying Skills and Techniques for ChildrenAnti-Bullying Skills and Techniques for ChildrenBullying is a big problem in our schools today. However, bullying has always been a problem. The main differences between bullying today from the past are the nature of the bullying and the violence that occurs in the aftermath. Cyberbullying is becoming a popular and more destructive form of bullying than traditional bullying. More children today are bringing guns to school to seek revenge on others. Bullying has been aroundRelevance of High School Mathematics to the Real World It is an age old question in math classes: "Why do we have to learn this? When are we ever going to use this in our lives?" There is of course, a very fine answer to this that any teacher can be proud of. It consists of something along the lines of : What we are learning in class, whether it be how to factor a quadratic, how to graph a sine function, or anything else, is a building block to further education and toDecipher That Code & Read! Part Four "Decipher That Code & Read!" Part Four of Four: A Plan Because of the failure of some reading programs and the bad report card the NCLB program received, recently, many people have become very, very skeptical of our education system, including teachers, in the US. Congress did also cut the NCLB budget due to budget constraintFor the Love of Learning: The Importance of Alternative Assessments in EducationIntroduction According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) position paper (1997) detailing how to assess children’s learning and development, assessment “recognizes individual variation in learners and allows for differences in styles and rates of learning” (p. 14) and “decisions...such as enrollment or placement are never made on the basis of a single assessmeTHE PERCEPTION OF TALENT IN PIANO PLAYING: AN INVESTIGATION OF VIEWS BY ESTABLISHED GREEK PIANO TEACHERSGeorgia G. Markea Post-doc and PhD in Music Education, University of London, Institute of Education School Adviser for Music Education Choosing a homeschool language arts curriculum for your familyWhat does a homeschool language arts curriculum need to have to make it useful, interesting and comprehensive? Are there language arts lesson plans which I can use over a number of ages? Well, firstly we need to consider what language arts lessons makes a language arts curriculum? It would need to include reading, writing, speaking and listening. Getting to finer details, it would need to teach writing skills from handwriting to written sentences and paragraphs. The Kidnapping of Summer BreakThe Kidnapping of Summer Break By Adina Ciment It seemsFirst Lesson of the School Year: Just Be You Each year, as we enter August, our thoughts turn away from suntans and beach balls and toward backpacks and book covers. With another school year, just around the corner, many children will soon face an iDecipher That Code & Read Part One:"Decipher that Code & Read!" Part One Phonics, An Overview: With the “No Child Left Behind” Law in somewhat chaos, it underscores the problems often faced In any plan for Teaching Reading. The phonics system, however, has been used successfully in the USA and Europe for many years to teach childreThe School Bully Deserves HelpVancouver, WA – 30 Percent of children in the United States are involved in school bullying according to National Youth Violence Prevention. That is 5.7 million American children who either are bullies or are picked on at school. “We’ve forgotten to raise our kids with kindness,” says Aaron Taylor, father and author of the new book “The Pumpkin Goblin Makes Friends.” Taylor could blame the changing dynamic of the American family or he could point the finger at the internet for mDisrespect in the Classroom Disrespect in the Classroom Super Moms Secrets for Raising a Child With ADDCases of Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD, have been on the rise in recent years. Doctors are finally realizing that a true physical disability can be present in both children and adults in order to cause them to have a reduced attention span and increased hyperactivity. If you're raising a child with ADD, what are some things you can do to help him cope with this condition, to still get a proper education, to learn boundaries, and to keep you from pulling out your own hair?