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TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE
JANUARY 2002
Volume 3 Number 1

COVER STORY
Harry & Rosemary Wong say, "All effective schools have a culture and it is the information one gets from a culture that sends a message to the students that they will be productive and successful." This month the Wongs offer more examples of successful school and classroom management...
COLUMNS
Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong
Promoting Learning by Marv Marshall
4 Blocks by Cheryl Sigmon
Ask the School Psychologist by Beth Bruno
Online Classrooms by Leslie Bowman
The Eclectic Teacher by Ginny Hoover
The Busy Educator's Monthly Five (5 Sites for Busy Educators) by Marjan Glavac
Around the Block by Cheryl Ristow
Ask the Literacy Teacher by Leigh Hall
The Visually Impaired Child
ARTICLES
Teaching Is...
Avoiding the 'Stares' When Intellectually Challenging Disadvantaged Students: Partnership Lessons from the HOTS Program
Why Use an Interactive Whiteboard?
A Baker’s Dozen Reasons!
The Effects Of Diet
Bully Advice For Kids
Teaching Gayle to Read (Part 2)
Both Sides Now in Gifted Education
What Are We Aiming At--What Do We Really Want To Aim At?
Teaching Graph from the Grassroots
Why Teachers Need Tenure
A Different Perspective to the Holidays
TEACHER INSPIRATION FEATURE
A Lesson Learned
FICTION FEATURE
Follow The Wonder
REGULAR FEATURES
The Lighter Side of Teaching
Handy Teacher Recipes
Classroom Crafts
Help Wanted - Teaching Jobs
New in the Lesson Bank
Upcoming Ed Conferences
Letters to the Editor
Chatboard Poll
FYI
eIditarod 2002
Planetary Society Protests Stop to Near-Earth Object Observations
Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
7th Annual Multidisciplinary Symposium on Breast Disease
Arab American Students in Public Schools
School Bus Subsidies for Field Trip to 2002 Tour De Sol
Gazette Home Delivery:

Letters to the Editor...
Parent Accountability - the overachiever

Some parents have also over done it with
some of their kids. We kids who come to
school who didn't have time to do their
homework because they had baseball
practice, violin lessons and volunteering
at the local shelter to attend to. We have
parents who have so oversaturated their
kids with activities that homework, much
less studying, has taken a backseat. They
come to school exhausted due to going to
bed late because they have tried to do
their homework after all of these
activities. These parents believe that
these activities are just as important as
school sometimes.

These parents need to reexamine priorities
their children have. Socialization and
activities that teach the arts, that teach
responsibilities as well as exercise are
all very noble, but if schools takes a back
seat to these items, that is when the kids
get the mixed message of the importance of
a good education. That message is usually
that mom and dad thinks its better that I
play first base rather than learn
fractions, for example.

We just can't look at the economically
depressed families anymore for the reason
of low test scores. Its also the
overachievers or should I say overworked
kids.

Don

Don, dengle@qwest.net,
1/05/02

This month's letters:

  • Accountability, 1/31/02, by keccles.
  • Accountability, 1/26/02, by Margaret.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/24/02, by Lori.
  • Accountability, 1/24/02, by Keccles.
  • Accountability, 1/19/02, by Whitebeard.
  • Proven Research, 1/09/02, by Kara Sherfick.
  • Keccles, 1/08/02, by Stacy.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/08/02, by Marilyn Treuil.
  • school auction, 1/08/02, by ginger taylor /canaan elementary pto.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/07/02, by Bill Page.
  • Accountability, 1/07/02, by Keccles.
  • It's about time we make them accountable!, 1/06/02, by Mkocar.
  • Do we need them to be accountable?, 1/06/02, by Stacy.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/06/02, by Little John.
  • Parent accountability; teacher responsibility, 1/06/02, by Bill Page.
  • Parent Accountability - the overachiever, 1/05/02, by Don.
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by Doodah.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/05/02, by Jacque/WA/K-1.
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by Bill T.
  • parent accountability, 1/05/02, by sandy m.s..
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by JoAnn.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/05/02, by a middle school teacher.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/05/02, by another 5th grade teacher.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/05/02, by Julie.
  • No tax rebate, surcharge them, or tuition refund incentive, 1/05/02, by George.
  • parent accountability, 1/05/02, by jen.
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by MaryBeth.
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by cato.

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