If you are a person who excuses this parents behavior as acceptable in any circumstance or regard,
PLEASE fuck off and block my ass immediately.
PLEASE fuck off and block my ass immediately.
I keep seeing people judge this mom, but let's use our brains for 5 seconds.
They're at Sam's. This constitutes max 2 hours out of their week, maybe even the entire month. She's clothes shopping. This is not their daily routine.
The most alarming part of this video is actually that a stranger filmed a young child without the parent's knowledge and posted it online.
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The Garfield Teacher is back and class is in session once again. Here we have an example school's Vision Statement.
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The multiple strategy approach for teaching math should be abandoned. I have been saying this for years. It doesn't align with common sense or effective practice.
This is a good article.
edweek.org/teaching-learn…
This is a good article.
edweek.org/teaching-learn…
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A central problem in classroom math instruction is heterogeneity of prior knowledge.
Even if every student “did well” in the previous class, they are often missing different pieces of prerequisite knowledge.
That makes whole-class readiness much weaker than it appears.
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MAGA 2021: “You can’t tell me to wear a mask.” “You can’t force a vaccine.” “You can’t make me stay home.”
MAGA 2026: “Just follow orders.” “Have your papers ready.” “Comply and nothing bad happens.”
MAGA 2026: “Just follow orders.” “Have your papers ready.” “Comply and nothing bad happens.”
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Garfield Teacher retweeted
bro someone on reddit made a mod where it changes Sinclair's rabbits to look like the actual heroes in the game
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You're a fool if you do not realize that cops are clever and this one knows exactly what he's doing and is deliberately setting up the circumstances in which he can murder a person and then get away with it.
You're also a fool if you do not realize that this is a legal shooting.
You're also a fool if you do not realize that this is a legal shooting.
She tried to kiII ICE agents with her car you liar. It’s literally on video
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Garfield Teacher retweeted
Are funny teachers more effective?
This is an interesting study because most studies on this are correlational, this uses randomised controlled experiments. Key Findings:
- Not all humour helps learning. Some actively harms it.
- Students appreciate humour that serves the distracts from it.
- Aggressive humour reliably increases student anger and anxiety.
- If a joke does not clarify the content, it is probably doing cognitive damage.
Bottom line: Only humour that is tightly tied to lesson content improves teaching quality, while other humour types are neutral at best and actively harmful at worst.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
This is an interesting study because most studies on this are correlational, this uses randomised controlled experiments. Key Findings:
- Not all humour helps learning. Some actively harms it.
- Students appreciate humour that serves the distracts from it.
- Aggressive humour reliably increases student anger and anxiety.
- If a joke does not clarify the content, it is probably doing cognitive damage.
Bottom line: Only humour that is tightly tied to lesson content improves teaching quality, while other humour types are neutral at best and actively harmful at worst.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Every once in a while I remember that this twin study exists pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079217/
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A teacher's teaching quality has very little impact on school achievement (less than 10%).
The remaining 90% is due to characteristics associated with students.
The remaining 90% is due to characteristics associated with students.
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"Keep the hands in mind" — indeed.
Fine motor skills (FMS) have been largely overlooked in the era of the internet. A new meta-analysis identified a positive correlation between FMS and academic success, and the details are fascinating.
The study aggregated 118 articles to etween specific sets of FMS and academic skills (Writing, Math, Reading, and Cognition).
Crucially, they distinguished between different types of motor skills:
Dexterity: Object manipulation (e.g., pegboards).
Graphomotor: Using a tool (pen/pencil) to draw symbols.
Speed: Rapid movements (tapping).
Finger Gnosia: Proprioception.
Here are the key takeaways from the study:
- The link is moderate to strong: Fine Motor Skills and academic success are significantly linked.
- It persists with age: The link exists in older students (adolescents) just as much as in young children. It is not just a developmental phase.
- Tool use matters most: Among all FMS, Graphomotor skills (using a pen/pencil) are more important for academic success than simple dexterity (moving pegs). There is a functional difference between manipulating an object and using a tool to create a symbol.
- Theory update: The data supports "Functionalism" (hands directly help learning) and "Shared Processes" (hands and brains share neural networks) as the correct way to look at this, rather than the old "Amodal" theory (hands are irrelevant).
Fine Motor Skills, and especially handwriting, deserves a comeback!
Fine motor skills (FMS) have been largely overlooked in the era of the internet. A new meta-analysis identified a positive correlation between FMS and academic success, and the details are fascinating.
The study aggregated 118 articles to etween specific sets of FMS and academic skills (Writing, Math, Reading, and Cognition).
Crucially, they distinguished between different types of motor skills:
Dexterity: Object manipulation (e.g., pegboards).
Graphomotor: Using a tool (pen/pencil) to draw symbols.
Speed: Rapid movements (tapping).
Finger Gnosia: Proprioception.
Here are the key takeaways from the study:
- The link is moderate to strong: Fine Motor Skills and academic success are significantly linked.
- It persists with age: The link exists in older students (adolescents) just as much as in young children. It is not just a developmental phase.
- Tool use matters most: Among all FMS, Graphomotor skills (using a pen/pencil) are more important for academic success than simple dexterity (moving pegs). There is a functional difference between manipulating an object and using a tool to create a symbol.
- Theory update: The data supports "Functionalism" (hands directly help learning) and "Shared Processes" (hands and brains share neural networks) as the correct way to look at this, rather than the old "Amodal" theory (hands are irrelevant).
Fine Motor Skills, and especially handwriting, deserves a comeback!
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If you are good at discipline, they will give you more of the poorly disciplined students. If you are good at building one on one relationships, they will give you more needy kids. If you follow the IEP or 504 faithfully, you get a lot more of the SPED students
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Only 41%, of children between the age of zero to four are being read to every day, “a decline of nine percentage points from 2019 and 15 percentage points in 2012.”
We are definitely not messaging the importance of early reading to families.
We are definitely not messaging the importance of early reading to families.
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This tweet started a conversation in the teacher's lounge over lunch about learning styles.
I was the only person in the room aware that learning styles, as people generally talk about them, are a debunked myth. Many were skeptical
100 years of teaching experience to my four.
I was the only person in the room aware that learning styles, as people generally talk about them, are a debunked myth. Many were skeptical
100 years of teaching experience to my four.
No such thing as an 'auditory learner', bud
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