May 2000
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May 2000 | Volume 57 | Number 8
Keeping Teaching Fresh
Feature Articles
Perspectives / Alive to Teaching
Marge Scherer
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Teaching Sisyphus to Juggle
Jim Burke
How does a teacher surmount fatigue and regain the joy of teaching?
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The Best 25 Cents I Ever Spent
Esmé Raji Codell
Sharing adventures of the imagination prepares students for the real world, this teacher finds.
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Bring Life to Learning
Donald H. Graves
Advice for promoting engagement and deep understanding: Focus on People.
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Teaching Is Like . . . ?
David Hagstrom, Ruth Hubbard, Caryl Hurtig, Peter Mortola, Jill Ostrow and Valerie White
Writing a metaphor that reflects both your chosen work and your avocation can enrich your perspective.
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Designing Professional Development That Works
Beatrice F. Birman, Laura Desimone, Andrew C. Porter and Michael S. Garet
From a survey of 1,000 teachers and 10 case studies in five states, the authors extrapolate the key features of effective staff development.
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A Tool for Meaningful Staff Development
Patricia V. Magestro and Nancy Stanford-Blair
A format for staff development that reflects emerging research on the way adults learn.
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Viewing Teaching on Videotape
Miriam Gamoran Sherin
Video clubs offer opportunities to watch classroom interactions and discuss student thinking.
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The Teacher Book Club
Shari M. Goldberg and Ellen Pesko
Reconnecting with reading for pleasure deepens teachers' awareness of readers' needs.
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The Ongoing Professional Journey
Lloyd Duck
For beginners and the experienced, 12 recommendations for growth, whatever your teaching style.
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Earning Board Certification: Making Time to Grow
Karla Jenkins
The NBPTS process leads teachers to analyze their practice and achieve high standards.
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A Voice for Teachers
Philip Bigler
A year spent as an ambassador for the profession brings recognition and new insights.
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A Community of Learners
Valerie A. Middleton
At a professional development school, veteran teachers, professors, and teacher candidates collaborate to improve teaching.
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Examining Racial and Cultural Thinking
Beverly Daniel Tatum
To break the cycle of prejudice, educators look at their assumptions and actions at school.
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The Power of Owning Technology
Margaret Riel, Jennifer Schwarz, Heather Peterson and Jill Henricks
To make the most of computers in the classroom, teachers need experience at home.
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Heads-Up Technology
Gary DeCoker
Hands-on problem solving can provoke new thinking about how we learn.
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Summer Sustenance
Kelly Chandler
How a retreat can kindle school change.
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Freshness in the Mountains
Kay Slattery Shapiro and Judith Enz Clauss
From quilt making to baseball, island culture to pottery—teachers find renewal when they learn something new.
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Special Topics
Special Topic / No Substitute for Quality
Margaret D. Tannenbaum
A survey of administrators and teachers in seven school districts suggests recommendations for improving the substitute experience.
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Special Topic / Substitute Teaching: Sink or Swim
Diane Duebber
Guidelines from a sub to a sub.
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Departments
Voices: The Teacher / Color Me Subversive
Kim Chase
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Voices: The Teacher / Reality Check
C. S. Perryess
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Books of the Century
Craig Kridel
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Web Wonders
Carolyn R. Pool
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Research Link / Pathways to the Principalship
John H. Holloway
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