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Motivated Students: Tips for Active Learning in the Individualized Classroom
What type of motivation should I use? I just find myself in the middle of that. They give extrinsic motivation to get them— to bribe them—to do their work. They should be grown up enough to do it because it's the right thing to do. But...
Helping Students Think as Anabaptists through Teaching Math Logic and Science
In this talk given at Faith Builders Teacher's Week 2010, Pete Peters speaks about the importance of respecting the 'hard sciences' as reflecting God's truthfulness and consistency. There is perhaps less in a proper teaching of these...
Start with Simple: Tips to Make the First Year Less Stressful
Some things I've learned and read about, about lowering the stress level of being a first year teacher, are some of the things I want to talk about this morning. I listened to a podcast by Angela Watson and one of the things she said on...
Modeling and Teaching the Anabaptist Christian Faith in a Practical Way Through Formal Classroom Teaching
In this talk given at Faith Builders Teacher's Week 2010, Glendon Strickler begins by sharing his burden for the importance of retaining a distinctive Anabaptist Christianity in opposition to continual secular pressures of doubt and...
Short, Fun, and Often: Using Journals to Spark Creative Composition
Today, I'm going to share with you something that I found really useful in this last year of teaching. I've taught for two years previous to this, and this is the first year I've started doing journaling. Journaling was something I learned...
