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15 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: complain, Much, Teachers

Comparative to other professions, they do very little work and results would seem to indicate that many do it badly. Some fail to teach basic numeracy and literacy and then complain they don’t get paid enough and demand a pay rise.
They work the shortest hours of any profession. and get approximately 13 weeks unofficial holiday a year and then complain about being overworked.

There are some good teachers out there, but some of them need to get a job in the real world to find out what hard work truly is.
I agree Nina, there are some great teachers out there…

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2 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: at, Feedback, Give, High, Mean, School, Writer

What Does It Mean To Be A High School Writer?
Different theories effect how literacy influences adolescents today. In 1980, many scholars believed memorization was the way to literacy in England (Rigby pg. 459). In Rome, learning phonics was the path to a literate life (Bertonneau spara. 4), Now, Riesland argues over whether writing is even necessary to be considered literate (Riesland para 9). Knowing these alternative teaching methods we are urged to conform to each teacher’s classification. High school writing is a game, we start playing it at a very young age. The purpose is to write according to what…

21 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: at, atleast, basis, Bible, Good, Idea, literacy rate, Read, Their, Think, weekly, wives, Would

I think it would be a great idea. Its nice that we have the modern invention of the printing press that makes Bible’s available to many and a higher literacy rate now than ever before. I think it is a man’s responsibility to atleast teach his family all of the 613 commandments in the Bible and the history of the ancients so they can learn how to be good women.

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3 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: at, guys, Help, Ideas, Please

Im currently doing a teaching assistant level 2 course and and stuck on my 2nd assignment! Im currently working with a group of Year 5 students who are aged 9-10 year olds. I need to know what acticvity will be suitable to do with this group age?!!! i havent got a clue! i would like it to cover literacy, numeracy and ict. anyone have any ideas?

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1 Comment Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: at, Year, Years

Im currently doing a teaching assistant level 2 course and and stuck on my 2nd assignment! Im currently working with a group of Year 5 students who are aged 9-10 year olds. I need to know what acticvity will be suitable to do with this group age?!!! i havent got a clue! i would like it to cover literacy, numeracy and ict. anyone have any ideas?

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3 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: at, Please, Read, Teachers

Does anyone know of any good employment websites for areas in education…ex: literacy coach, reading specialist, student support, etc (ANYTHNG except of teaching in classroom…been there done that)

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1 Comment Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: at, College, quitting.

Okay, here’s my situation:

Lately, I’ve been really considering leaving my current job (Albertsons grocery store) so I can just focus all of my attention on college instead of focusing my attention on both. I’ve been working at the store for 2 years now (started off as a bagger, got promoted to bakery) but I’ve been really unhappy with it. I don’t get paid good wages, management is a joke (especcially our store director), and it’s not getting me anywhere in terms of future career. I’m pretty much stuck in a dead end job that I’m unhappy with.

Recently, we got…

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6 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: at, Grammar, Help, Need

How would i combine these sentences w.out comma splices or fused sent.
1. Several recent studies indicate that many American high school students have a poor sense of history. This is affecting out future as a democratic nation and as indivduals
2. Surveys show that nearly one-thrd of American 17 year olds cannot identify the countries the U.S. fought against in WW2. One third think Columbus reached the New World after 1750
3. Several reasons have been given for this decline in historical literacy. The main reason is the way hisory is taught.
4. This problem is bad news. The good news is that…

5 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: at, leaving teaching what can i do, quitting., Should, Thinking

I’ve been sick lately (had to take the past week off) and work in a public school, teaching third grade. Everyone says I got all the “bad kids” and somedays it has really felt like it. Anyway, today i returned to work even though I wasn’t feeling well. I threw up at school and was told to take some TUMS or Pepto and go back to my class, even with a fever (doctor had told me that if my fever came back, I was supposed to go back home). Later the principal came and yelled at me for not having…

6 Comments Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: at, Looking, MENTOR, Person, Rich, Teach, WEALTHY, Would

I am twenty three years of age and i am teachable. Wanting to learn how to become wealthy. I might as will state that at this point i have no real money to start with. I am a fast learning apprentice,I am already fairly will equipped with some of the basics of financial literacy. I am especially interested in someone who could teach me about at least one of the following, Discount Note Brokering, Stock Investing with a system called Invest tools,Real Estate,Network Marketing / ( M L M ). P.S. If you are not wanting to teach me yourself…