Showing posts with label Teacher's Lounge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teacher's Lounge. Show all posts

If You Love Photography, You HAVE to See This!

I buy cameras like other people buy cereal.  Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but I absolutely love photography.  I kid you not, I have never seen a camera like this.  And I have to wait for it to come out?!  Keep reading to see why it’s so amazing.

Lytro will be introducing a light field camera that allows you to change the focus after you’ve taken the picture.  Click anywhere in the photos to change the focus and visit their picture gallery to play some more! 

Teacher Quotes

Some of these apply even if you’re not a teacher.  Enjoy!

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To love what you do and feel that it matters- how could anything be more fun? ~ Katherine Graham

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. ~Unknown Author

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.  ~ Theodore Roosevelt

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over?  Movie Day.
~ Jay Mohr

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.  ~Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.  ~Donald D. Quinn

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.  ~Horace Mann

The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward

To teach is to learn twice.  ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.  ~Author Unknown

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.  ~Mark Van Doren

I Hope You Dance

Take a minute to think back through the million different moments you’ve spent in a classroom.  What do you remember most?

A while back, one of my former students told me one of her favorite memories from the year she was in my fourth grade class. 

danceShe was working at her desk during writing time, listening to the song Build Me Up Buttercup in the background.  (It was the American Idol season of Clay Aiken and we had quite a few fans in our class!)  For no reason at all, I came over, took her by the hand and we started dancing around the classroom.
 
I’ve come to realize that moments like that represent my beliefs as a teacher.  It is our experiences that help create our motivation, excitement, and love of learning.  Teachers nurture our passions, interests, and sense of wonder.  They teach us to be proud of ourselves and to learn from our successes and our mistakes.  And we learn best when we’re in environments that make us feel comfortable, safe, and valued.   Neither one of us remembers what she was writing about that day, but we created something to write about. 

She’s about to graduate from high school, and I just received a super sweet note thanking me for being an important influence in her life.  Now that’s a reason to teach.

Whatever you decide to do each day, don’t forget to dance.  Smile

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