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Feedback from students
I have really disliked evaluations. In my first career they were done once a year, and I usually fared just fine in them. Consider this example from February 2011, my last few months on the job. I...
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Jacob had his very first sleepover a few weeks ago. There were two Korean boys that came over. I promised to let them stay up late. When 10:30 rolled around, I got them off to brushing their teeth....
View ArticleReflecting on reflections
I’m beginning to think that we’re doing too many reflections. Not me, as an adult, reflecting on my work, but we as educators asking students to constantly reflect. As educators we seem to want our...
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Reflections on a half of a year of work
After a little encouragement, I opted to use blogging as a self reflection tool for my professional development assessment this year. I have a lot to write about. First, I feel like I need to...
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Reflections on Discover India 2015
One of the really neat things that I get to do as part of my job is to go on trips with students. I often travel with student athletes for sports tournaments. But the trip I returned from was...
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Teaching Sex Ed
I have a great teaching partner. Holly and I were born 10 years and a day apart. We grew up maybe 40 miles from each other. We met in India and are the High School PE department. We sit three...
View ArticleBooks my employer has gifted to us
One very minor but telling benefit of working for our school is that they have given us a few books for free. The first two re even received in an express mail package mailed to us in Mongolia — the...
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Using LEGO manipulatives for teaching base ten math
This isn’t a new idea — there are a number of good online resources for using LEGO bricks for teaching base 10 math skills. But a few months ago, before I found those resources, I had the idea of...
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Discovering India
I’m not just a high school PE teacher. I also serve as the coordinator for the school’s Discover India program. This is the school’s week-without-walls experience where all high school students...
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International teaching lifestyle: cleaners and drivers
In the US, I never considered having a person clean my home. I also owned my vehicle and drove myself where I needed to go. When Pepper lived in China she had a woman that came to her house daily....
View ArticleGood timing
Today was my last class with a group of students. They are all really good kids but have had a couple of incidents where it is clear that some of them need to work on some interpersonal skills. So...
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Quartz
One of the things we did last weekend was find cool quartz crystals while hiking. I found this huge block with a resemblance to a crystal shape. I grabbed a much smaller piece of smoky quartz too....
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I took seventh graders bowling
Our flight from Mongolia to Beijing was delayed last Wednesday. It was supposed to depart at 11:50 AM but didn’t until nearly 11 hours later, As a result, our players could go to classes instead of...
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Why I coach
The truth is, coaching sucks. Much of the time… It means much longer hours than most peers. You might drag yourself to a practice more than an hour before most of your peers were even in the...
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Staff vs. girls soccer team soccer game
Last Thursday I gave the girls soccer team some game practice in a soccer match vs. the ASU staff. Jordan took all of these great photos. Pepper played. I refereed and coached.
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We’re featured on the Cornerstone for Teachers blog
Angela Watson has written books on classroom management and maintains a great website with resources for teachers. She send Pepper and I a few questions about working and teaching internationally to...
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ASU middle school dodgeball tournament
Saturday there was a middle school dodge ball tournament at our school. My 11th and 12th grade Recreation Leadership class helped put it together. We had 30 students on 5 teams. They were mixed by...
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National Archery in the Schools Program
Thursday I completed the National Archery in the Schools Program instructor training. Teachers from the International School of Ulaanbaatar were also present. It was a day-long course that...
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Jordan in a chess tournament
Yesterday and Friday after school the International School of Mongolia hosted a tournament that our students and students from Elite school (also in Ulaanbaatar) participated in. Events were for...
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Simulated parenthood
I have had our 10th grade classes carrying around a fake baby for over three weeks now. The body is a bag of flour and then there is an egg taped to the bag as a head. Everyone has a partner that they...
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