TheApple

Really really nice article..I truly enjoyed this .. Really good one. Keep going

heilkrauter

Along with the gratitude for the article (some of us might need it for inspiration),
I must also write here a sidenote:

Miscue in the first sentence of your article, Dear ones! It should be:
"Do you really want to know what YOUR students are holding back?"

I know, homonyms (or homophones) are a constant pain in students' papers,
but we as teachers should learn it by heart.

Allow me please to help you by presenting here several sentences
that I borrow for educational purposes from one of the textbooks:

!!!. "THEY'RE about to leave, so get THEIR coats from over THERE.
2. The store will ACCEPT any type of payment EXCEPT checks.
3. Color can AFFECT us. Its EFFECT can be soothing or energizing.
4. The CAPITOL building is located in our state CAPITAL.
5. Fortunately, they were ALL READY to go, because we were ALREADY late.
6. During the art COURSE she worked with some COARSE materials to show different textures.
7. IT'S true that my car lost ITS muffler on the way here.
8. You may KNOW the expression [by NOW] that NO man is an island.
9. The governor KNEW the NEW policy was needed.
10. Once they were PAST the town, they PASSED the truck ahead of them.
11. It costs TOO much TO spend TWO weeks in Europe."

Quoted from McGraw-Hill's GED. The Most Complete and Reliable Study Program for the GED
Tests. McGraw-Hill, 2002. (p.147).

I am assured every one of us will agree that being highly qualified teachers
we have to keep our own standards high!
Wishing you all success in communication, and teaching skills,

Respectfully,
Nirava, English Language,Literature, and Arts teacher

Most of these were pretty obvious, and the ones regarding me as a teacher I already knew, so this was definitely not an article that I should have spent time reading.

I have spent my life showing educators that there is an unfolding adventure in paper hand puppetry. The most meaningful ripple of this work impacts the hearts and minds of teachers and kids of all ages alike when they begin speaking this language and make play integral to the way they communicate and share experience in the classroom. The change brought about by puppetry and play is described firsthand by teachers in journals published on my website @. puppetools.com

This is potentially important because education has become a stuck in its own culture--a culture that, ironically, has learned how best to resist change and cling to its comfort zone. In an age that is focused myopically on technology and gaming is touted as the next big thing in education, a simple paper ‘media’ turns classrooms into thriving habitats. Paper puppetry reinvented as a mass media has the potential to root and grow a humanized and joyful learning culture in the soil of play. Here is an audio of how this adventure originally unfolded.

http://www.puppetools.com/library/swf/puppetools_origins.html