School teacher stuff

Video games get active and so do the kids Repeat after me "Active games don't replace physical education". Write that out 100 times and you won't make the easiest mistake of active gaming. It's so easy to get kids involved with active gaming, even easier with Gamercize equipment, but use it as an extra and give children more opportunities to be active instead of replacing the ones they already have. A really fun way of getting the whole class involved is to set up a competition. Remember that...Read Full Story

Expert Sets Guidelines for Improvement The exergaming world was rocked by criticism following the use of exergaming as a replacement for traditional physical education. The story that originated in the UK has since circulated the globe with criticism from as far away as Australia for not being real exercise and for giving up on sport. The articles highlighted research stating the console used was only 2 percent more extra effort over sedentary gaming. The odd part is this; the discouraging...Read Full Story

Recently the idea of Co-Teaching seems to be under scrutiny in our school. I question where this is coming from. Rather than "trusting" administrators we should trust each other. And if we have doubts we should visit each other's classes. From what I heard in the past, and experienced myself, some of the most effective classes have been co-taught classes. Eg. 1 SCART . Science and ART . When I first came to QHST Varriale and Fox shared the products and the accolades of the co-taught science...Read Full Story

中国蓬勃发展的经济最终很可能会演变为一把双刃剑。遗憾的是，我们之中极少有人在关注新财富流动的同时去发现一些问题。事实上，越来越多的中国人正在发掘生活中前所未有的美好。在迄今为止的 100 年内，北京路面上的汽车数量首次超过了自行车数量。但是请你用一丝的眼光和想象力来思考一下这些问题：首先， 34% 的中国新财富来源于国外；第二，仅在北京，每天就有 800 个永久居留证颁发给外国人；最后，到 2015 年， 20% 的北京居民是外国人。难道你现在还想说，“那又怎样”吗？ 作为家长，这样的态度不仅是危险的，更是天真甚至无知的。如果询问大部分中国人，包括受过极高教育的教授，不论他们从外国人那里赚到多少财富，或是他们和外国人合作过多久，他们都会给出对外国人同样的看法：外国人比本土中国人更有进攻性，经常表现得粗鲁，并且很少考虑是否会伤害到其他人的感受。当然我们都知道，一部分外国人并不属于上面所说的类型...Read Full Story

While driving south through Brooklyn on BQE just before you pass the Brooklyn Bridge, there is one section of parkway where all you see is self storage places. Have these places always existed? or have we become so programmed to hold onto everything and acquire anything that we need to rent extra space for our stuff, nowadays? One of the many amazing things in the Department of Education is that every year I somehow seem to change my classroom. I get to move all the stuff I've claimed in the...Read Full Story