Tag: education

Tumblr Teacher’s Amazon Classroom Wish Lists 2018-2019

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positivelypersistentteach:

positivelypersistentteach:

Hello Wonderful Tumblrites,

Every year, teachers spend on average $500 on their classroom of their own money.   I know many teachers who spend considerably more.   Each year, I request links to wish lists from the teachers on Tumblr to share; we call it Teachmas.  It is wonderful to have support from all over as we prepare for the new school year.  Please consider purchasing an item, if money is tight, reblogs also help!   Thank you so much!

  1. Positivelypersistentteach teaches Kindergarten in Florida.   Wish list found here.
  2. Girlwithalessonplan teaches high school English and Newspaper in Indiana.  Wish list found here.
  3. Impatienteacher teaches 5th grade in North Carolina.  Wish list found here.
  4. Mrskaaay teaches 7th grade Math in Kentucky.  Wish list found here.
  5. Thebookwormfromkinder teaches Kindergarten in Florida.  Wish list found here.
  6. isaidsothatswhy teaches 9th/Art I & Yearbook in Central Mississippi.  Wish list found here. 
  7. From-tutor-to-teacher teaches 2-5 math resource 3-12 SPED inclusion in Texas.  Wish list found here. 
  8. impeccablyshaved teaches Kindergarten in Atlanta, Ga. Wish list found here. 
  9. offbeatteacher teaches Kindergarten in Southern California.  Wish list found here.
  10. Socially Acceptable Madness teaches 7th and 8th grade (all subjects) in Florida.  Wish list found here.
  11. Bookworm109 teaches 7th grade ELA in Ohio.  Wish list found here.

  12. Teach-center-stage teaches High School Theatre and Musical Theatre in Florida.  Wish list found here.

  13. myfesteringcesspool teaches Kindergarten in Milwaukee, WI.  Wish list found here.

  14. Aperk teaches 10th grade English, Journalism in Kansas.  Wish list found here.

  15. minimarker teaches Middle School Math in Maryland.  Wish list found here.

  16. allmadeofstardust
    teaches 7th grade Math in South Carolina.  Wish list found here.

  17. Leenzkay
    teaches 8th grade Science in Mississippi.  Wish list found here.

  18. mamafox18
    teaches high school US History in Maine. Wish list found here.

  19. roonilwazlibs79 teaches 3rd grade in Missouri.  Wish list found here.

  20. growthliveshere
    teaches Middle School ELA in New York.  Wish list found here.

  21. brainvomit
    teaches Special needs and art classes (K-12) in Arizona. Wish list found here.

  22. adventures in teaching and nerdery
    teaches Special education (K & 4) in Central IL.   Wish list found here.

  23. macaroni-hexagon
    teaches 7th and 8th grade math in California.  Wish list found here. 

  24. Grayer teaches 6th Grade Inclusion in New York.  Wish list found here.

  25. Safeaspockets teaches High School English
    in Massachusetts.  Wish list found here.

  26. lovelikesummer
    teaches World Geography (9th), Student Leadership (9th), and College Readiness (12th) in Texas.  Wish list found here.

  27. MsPinhey teaches World History, Contemporary Issues, High School 9-12 in Tennessee. Wish list found here.

  28. vwalker teaches 6-8th grade SPED in Minnesota. Wish list found here.

  29. Lugofrombananacountry teaches Middle school Spanish in Maryland. Wish list found here.

  30. messerlyk teaches Gd. 8-12, reading and creative writing at an alternative ed. school in Tennessee.  Wish list found here.

  31. MagicalMissB teaches Middle school humanities (Ancient Civilizations) in 

    Washington State. Wish list found here.

  32. Sexy-Queen-Mary teaches Social Studies 9-12 in Missouri.  Wish list found here.

  33. lifeinkinder teaches Kindergarten/first grade combo in Illinois. Wish list found here.

  34. Allysowned teaches 9th and 10th English in Massachusetts.  Wish list found here.

  35. Prettyeyesdupree
    teaches 6th grade reading and social studies in Georgia.  Wish list found here.  

  36. pura-vida8 teaches Spanish – Grades 7 + 8 in New Hampshire.  Wish list found here.

  37. Art and Hart teaches Preschool special education in the Washington DC area.  Wish list found here.

  38. mathematically speaking teaches 6th grade math & computer science in 

    California.  Wish list found here.

  39. aguilar-teaches
    teaches 8th Grade Language Arts, English 1 Honors in Florida.   Wish list found here.

  40. Christina-in-Arkansas teaches K/1 Special Education in Arkansas.  Wish list found here.

  41. teacherofthethoughtfullest
    teaches 10th English II, AP Language & Comp, Humanities in Colorado.  Wish list found here.

  42. mrskcreads
    teaches 6th Grade Reading and English (writing) in Texas. Wish list found here.

  43. Missfteacheshistory
    teaches 6 and 8th Grade History in New Jersey. Wish list found here.

  44. MisstoMrsPaula
    teaches 9th grade English Honors & 9th grade English 1 Through ESOL in Florida.  Wish list found here.

  45. Teaching-Every Day is Different
     teaches 

    11th Grade English, GSA in 

    Virginia. Wish list found here.

  46. shouseinthehouse
    teaches
    5th and 6th grade reading, writing, and social studies in Indiana.  Wish list found here.

  47. Tokidoki Teacher teaches Kindergarten in Minnesota.  Wish list found here.

  48. frenchspeakingfilipina teaches 1st in Washington State.  Wish list found here.  

  49. WatchAllisonTeach teaches Sophomore English, senior yearbook in 

    Illinois.  Wish list found here.

  50. JoyAbounds teaches 1st grade in Texas.  Wish list found here.

  51. ummno teaches 10th Grade Government in Maryland. Wish list found here.

  52. kathleendevon
    teaches 2nd Grade in Texas.  Wish list found here.

  53. elviajedelaesperanza
    teaches Spanish I & II in Illinois.  Wish list found here.

  54. withmypensandneedles
    teaches High school (9-12) reading intervention in Missouri.  Wish list found here.

  55. randomrambleramble teaches 

    Mathematics 9-12 (Algebra I, Geometry, Trigonometry) in Maryland.  Wish list found here.

  56. eisforecfeandendometriosis teaches Preschool in Minnesota.  Wish list found here.

  57. see-mary-teach
    teaches 6-8 ELA in Arizona.  Wish list found here.

  58. Jenasaurus teaches 6th and 7th grade science, 8th grade advisory in California.  Wish list found here.

  59. chocolatecastleinthesky teaches High School Latin in Tennessee.  Wishlists found here and here.

  60. mrawesomepants teaches History 9 (World History), APUSH, Model UN in Maine. Wish list found here.

  61. manzanas teaches First Grade in California. Wish list found here.

  62. Pablophonic teaches 5th Grade STEM in South Carolina. Wish list found here.

  63. andshewill
    teaches 8th grade ELA in Massachusetts.  Wish list found here. 

  64. Lotiinside teaches 6th Grade Science in Florida.  Wish list found here.

  65. Fourth Grade Frenzy
    teaches 4th grade in Maine.  Wish list found here.

  66. ohsnix teaches 9th Grade World History in North Carolina.  Wish list found here.

  67. Read. Write. Repeat. teaches 

    Speech, Debate, Drama 9-12 in Oklahoma.  Wish list found here.  

  68. hello-delicious-tea
    teaches 9th-10th ELA in North Carolina.  Wish list found here.

  69. Sempiternalsolstice teaches 6-8 ELA in Tennessee. Wish list found here.

  70. Omniscribe
    teaches High school English (Etymology, World Lit, Speech and Dual Credit Writing) in Illinois.  Wish list found here.

  71. The-littlelady teaches High school LD (9-12) in South Carolina.  Wish list found here.

  72. Ambedu teaches 6th Grade Literacy and Science in Wisconsin.  Wish list found here.

  73. whiskeyfortheway
    teaches MS Social Studies (6-8), HS Psychology, HS Current Events in Michigan.  Wish list found here.

  74. samanthainsecondary teaches 9th grade ELA in Maryland.  Wish list found here.

  75. sunshinein17 teaches 5th/6th grade Social Studies and Writing in 

    Missouri.  Wish list found here.

  76. adventureswithscience teaches 8th Grade Science in Florida.  Wish list found here.
  77. Justwalkthroughmyclassroom teaches 7th/8th Grade Language Arts in Florida.  Wish list found here.

I misspelled Tumblr the first time I posted this.  I just noticed that now.

Hey guys! even a little bit can go a long way helping out a teacher!

witchyfaekin:

mswyrr:

favedump:

Mr. Rogers had an intentional manner of speaking to children, which his writers called “Freddish”. There were nine steps for translating into Freddish: 

  1. “State the idea you wish to express as clearly as possible, and in terms preschoolers can understand.” Example: It is dangerous to play in the street. ​​​​​​
  2. “Rephrase in a positive manner,” as in It is good to play where it is safe.
  3. “Rephrase the idea, bearing in mind that preschoolers cannot yet make subtle distinctions and need to be redirected to authorities they trust.” As in, “Ask your parents where it is safe to play.”
  4. “Rephrase your idea to eliminate all elements that could be considered prescriptive, directive, or instructive.” In the example, that’d mean getting rid of “ask”: Your parents will tell you where it is safe to play.
  5. “Rephrase any element that suggests certainty.” That’d be “will”: Your parents can tell you where it is safe to play.
  6. “Rephrase your idea to eliminate any element that may not apply to all children.” Not all children know their parents, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play.
  7. “Add a simple motivational idea that gives preschoolers a reason to follow your advice.” Perhaps: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is good to listen to them.
  8. “Rephrase your new statement, repeating the first step.” “Good” represents a value judgment, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them.
  9. “Rephrase your idea a final time, relating it to some phase of development a preschooler can understand.” Maybe: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing.

Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children – The Atlantic

Rogers brought this level of care and attention not just to granular
details and phrasings, but the bigger messages his show would send.
Hedda Sharapan, one of the staff members at Fred Rogers’s production
company, Family Communications, Inc., recalls Rogers once halted taping
of a show when a cast member told the puppet Henrietta Pussycat not to
cry; he interrupted shooting to make it clear that his show would never
suggest to children that they not cry.

In working on the show,
Rogers interacted extensively with academic researchers. Daniel R.
Anderson, a psychologist formerly at the University of Massachusetts who
worked as an advisor for the show, remembered a speaking trip to
Germany at which some members of an academic audience raised questions
about Rogers’s direct approach on television. They were concerned that
it could lead to false expectations from children of personal support
from a televised figure. Anderson was impressed with the depth of
Rogers’s reaction, and with the fact that he went back to production
carefully screening scripts for any hint of language that could confuse
children in that way.

In fact, Freddish and Rogers’s philosophy of
child development is actually derived from some of the leading
20th-century scholars of the subject. In the 1950s, Rogers, already well
known for a previous children’s TV program, was pursuing a graduate
degree at The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary when a teacher there
recommended he also study under the child-development expert Margaret
McFarland at the University of Pittsburgh. There he was exposed to the
theories of legendary faculty, including McFarland, Benjamin Spock, Erik
Erikson, and T. Berry Brazelton. Rogers learned the highest standards
in this emerging academic field, and he applied them to his program for
almost half a century.

This is one of the reasons Rogers was so
particular about the writing on his show. “I spent hours talking with
Fred and taking notes,” says Greenwald, “then hours talking with
Margaret McFarland before I went off and wrote the scripts. Then Fred
made them better.” As simple as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood looked and sounded, every detail in it was the product of a tremendously careful, academically-informed process.

That idea is REALLY worth learning to talk to the kiddos. Mr. Rogers still has a lot to teach us–especially for our own kids.

cephalopodvictorious:

emeritusprofessorofnothing:

benyw:

iloveradfems:

shopcatsca:

iloveradfems:

cecaeliawitch:

unapolpgeticalfeminist:

omg I’m doing research for one of projects for college, and apparently, girls learn better when they’re in an all girls class, but boys learn even worse when they’re in an all boys class, because all the negative things become even stronger of there are no girls to act as “buffer”

get rid of the boys and let girl learn in peace, i couldn’t care less about them

It’s not our job to be a “buffer”

Separate boys from girls then, they don’t have to be acting like mothers at age 12, if boys ruin the education of others boys, um, idk, fix their behavior maybe?

I work at uni. My program is very competitive. Like you need a 92% or more to get in. We get 10x the applications than we can accept. So. This means our program is 95% female. Simply because girls do better in highschool than boys. Its literally that simple. However. This is a HUGE deal in the administration! Because OMG all those poor boys with less than a 92% can’t get into our program and woe is me, those poor poor boys. Every year we meet to talk about ways to “rectify” this “problem”. One year they’re going to stop inviting me to these meetings. Because I always ask questions like “how do we get boys into the program with lower GPAs without denying girls with higher GPAs? And how is giving boys preferential treatment not sexist?” Keep going good ladies, I’m saving your seat!

This type of thing always happens when women are dominating something, protocols are changed to accommodate and benefit men, and if this strategy isn’t successful the field is devalued.

Keep the good work!

The amount of times I heard my grandfather talk about the ‘feminization’ of schools because he wanted to blame the system for boys under performing (or, more accurately: girls out performing the boys) instead of, ya know, boys’ entitled attitudes and overall piss poor behavior when at school.

When women fail at something: there must be something wrong with women
When women succeed at something: there must be something wrong with the system

I think I’ve talked about it before on other posts, but I once had an anthropology class that, completely unintentionally, was all women and one man, and he dropped the course after two weeks. The other section of the same anthropology class, taught by the same professor, was mixed with men and women. So, since it was anthropology, she asked if it was cool if she took notes. She said right away that the all female class had a wildly different vibe, that we spoke and acted differently and had different social expectations of her and the rest of the class, and that we let students complete their thoughts before disagreeing, while the mixed class was highly traditional and almost entirely male dominated because every time a woman spoke, a man jumped in halfway through to “correct” her by saying the same thing. Its a very small sample size, but I think about this a lot

the-cimmerians:

veliseraptor:

blackpoeticinjustice:

blackpoeticinjustice:

blackpoeticinjustice:

blackpoeticinjustice:

blackpoeticinjustice:

blackpoeticinjustice:

blackpoeticinjustice:

Being part of the social justice culture or the “stay woke” culture, I usually thought that the main purposes were to:

1) Unlearn what was taught to you

2) Learn what was never taught to you

3) Educate those around you with the knowledge you have

But you see…

You will come across people that will ask questions that may sound problematic but they just genuinely are confused about the matter and just want to learn

I had a white girl, sweet as hell, that was curious about why White people can’t say the N-word but Black people can say it.

Now… If this was Black Tumblr/Twitter, y’all wouldve ate her alive and spit her out. Like, why would you ask a question like that????

I didnt take any offense to the question, because again, you have to educate.

I broke it down simply…

“Bitch was a term used by men against women… If you call your female friend ‘my bitch’, theres nothing wrong with that… but if a guy did the same thing to his female friend, that wouldnt not look too good…”

Then she understood! She doesnt like when men call her or other women bitches but she noticed how women call each other bitches (almost) all the time in a friendly context.

Some SJW ppl would resort to just straight ridicule. Like relentlessly roast you, and you just wanted to ask a question, get your answer, and just go.

I understand some people would come outta nowhere with smartass comments and deserve that roasting, im 120% for that, but yall really need to learn the difference between those 2 groups of people.

I remember saying/doing something problematic not too long ago. This guy just went off on me, called me stupid, and vaguely explained why what I did was problematic. When I asked for a more in-depth answer as to why it was an issue, he didnt want to explain, he didnt have the “energy” to explain but had plenty of energy to say what i did was wrong and i was stupid to do it.

To this day, I STILL dont know exactly what was wrong but I am avoiding that action for sure.

To cut it shortly for yall,

Some people genuinely dont know what they do/say was wrong. Some ask questions to learn and educate themselves. Relax…

Ridicule or slander shouldnt be a first option to everything, if anything, its more counterproductive. Not to mention yall do this for notes and attention on social media.

#educating people requires emotional labor but it’s a lot more effective than perfomative and compassionless ‘wokeness’ (via @portraitoftheoddity)

adding to this: this is a great way for folks with privilege and a nuanced understanding of it to do some labor. lots of marginalized folks get so very, very tired of educating those around them–and justifiably so, when 90% of your interactions in open (or open virtual) space result in someone requesting illumination/elaboration/education. so for those of us who have privilege, doing this labor (while affirming the importance of marginalized voices to speak for themselves, which is why reference lists are so helpful) can be a way to make a contribution.