TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE OCTOBER 2000 Volume 1 Number 8 COVER STORY Success and failure. Seems pretty clear-cut, doesn't it? This month's cover story/excerpt by author Richard Bromfield explores the reality of Success and Failure. COLUMNS Effective Teaching by Harry Wong Promoting Learning by Marv Marshall The Trouble With... by Alfie Kohn 4 Blocks by Cheryl Sigmon School Psychologist by Beth Bruno ARTICLES Bobbi Fisher Afterschool Intervention Teachers Not Camp Counselors Silence Ain't Golden Enhancing the Curriculum Thailand 2000 Heroes Unaware Links Worth The Click Myth of the Quick Fix Integrative Curriculum in a Standards-Based World Student Scientists Win Spot on Mars Team Teaching Children to be Active Voters REGULAR FEATURES Letters to the Editor Poll: Favorite Quotes Archives: Bobbi Fisher New in the Lesson Bank Upcoming Ed Conferences Humor from the Classroom Help Wanted - Teaching Jobs Live Events Calendar Gazette Back Issues Gazette Home Delivery: Links Worth Checking Out... One way to enhance your geography curriculum or, to help introduce geography into your curriculum is by celebrating Geography Awareness Week. This year the theme is "Conservation" and will be celebrated the week of November 12-15, 2000..... Click for Full story Enhancing the Classroom Curriculum... The ten-two rule is ten minutes of instruction followed by two minutes of feedback. This feedback might be the students turning to each other to discuss what they just have learned or teacher-student feedback.... Click for Full story Beth Bruno on Foul-Mouthed Students... We're all accosted with obscenities at movie theaters, even when watching movies rated "G" for the general public. Scriptwriters supposedly create realism when their characters talk trash. To my ears such dialogue speaks to a writer's ignorance and laziness more than to efforts to portray memorable characters or absorbing scenes.... Click for Full story

Success and Failure.... While standards can be a good thing, and we know the dangers of expecting nothing from our children, they have surprises and side effects of their own. What does having Go Harvard, even if implicitly, embroidered on his crib sheet and diapers, overalls and sleepies, sweatshirts and wallpaper, do to a child? And what does it feel like to have parents want more than she can deliver...?   Full story Alfie Kohn Live This Month! This month the gazette features another article by renowned author Alfie Kohn. Chat live this month with Alfie Kohn in the Teachers.Net Chatroom 10/26! Full story Homework! Studies show it's not until middle school that homework begins to pay off. This month Marvin Marshall considers the role of homework in the modern classroom. Full story Jan Fisher: Teachers Are Not Camp Counselors... The good news about motivation is that it is not inborn. We can, and do, have a great influence here. Motivation is stimulated through modeling, communication of expectations, and direct instruction. Motivation is about putting forth and sustaining effort in order to learn.... Full story Start Class Effectively Your first priority when class begins is not to take the roll; it is to get the students to work. This month Harry & Rosemary Wong explain "It's All in How You Start...." Full story Kids Who Call the Words 4 Blocks guru Cheryl Sigmon explores the difference between word calling and reading. Find out why 4 Blocks literacy is sweeping the education world. Full story Dr. Barbara Y. Wills reports on Thailand 2000... We began and ended our Thailand travels in Bangkok. Traveling throughout Thailand by overnight trains, bus and cars to Ubon Ratchthani, Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Pattaya and Korat were expereiences within themselves..... Full story In this issue: Harry Wong helps teachers Start Class Effectively This month's featured Article by Author Alfie Kohn Jan Fisher notes Teachers Are Not Camp Counselors Cheryl Sigmon's Four Blocks Column She's back! Ask a School Psychologist by Beth Bruno Susan Ohanian warns that Silence Ain't Golden EC Author Bobbi Fisher from The Teacher Book Kim Tracy helps Enhance The Classroom Curriculum Deanna Hendrickson on After-School Intervention Program Dr. Barbara Y. Wills reports on Thailand 2000 Mary Sullivan shares more Links Worth The Click Anita Biase spots two teachers as Heroes Unaware October is LD month - read Myth of the Quick Fix Peter Bergen on Teaching Children to be Active Voters Integrative Curriculum in a Standards-Based World Student Scientists Win Spot on Mars Team Chatboard Poll: Lemons from Lemonade Goose qualifies at the Copy Machine Olympics From the Archives: Early Childhood Author Bobbi Fisher Featured Lessons from the Lesson Bank Current Teacher Job Listings from around the world Live Meetings & Workshops this month on Teachers.Net The Teachers.Net Gazette is a cooperative publication by the members of the Teachers.Net community. If you would like to submit an article or story for publication, write editor@teachers.net.