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This is a site that provides visitors with a variety of articles, resources, links, and information about education, teaching, history, even student motivation and discipline.  We explore from deep in the very foundations and philosophy of education, to the immediate-- various perspectives regarding super techniques to try in the classroom.  Grow in your ability to reach the unreachable with differentiated discipline!

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Articles

     Read all about meeting the needs of students in our modern educational world.

Resources

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Reports

     Inform yourself about some different graduate departments at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Classroom Excellence TopTips

One lesson of prevention is worth a semester of cure..

1. Get to know and like the subject(s) you teach through mastery, finding exciting outside materials, new resources, and 'real-world' uses to share.
2. Use team-building strategies (such as Tribes) so students get to know and trust each other.
3. Have students start with a fun, quiet assignment or 'reading zone' (10-20 minutes) while you take care of administrative tasks at the beginning of each day/session (Wong & Wong, 1991).
4. Have students try again if they misbehave in minor ways, or answer incorrectly, until they get it right.  Don't switch to another student, even if others call out with raised hands.
5. Avoid unconcious bias by using a method of random selection of students: e.g. a jar of popsicle sticks with names on them.

Attention: click for Louis Pugliese video

Useful Education Web Sites

• Multiplication.com
• Lesson Plan Maker A and B 
• songsforteaching.com 
• Online Curriculum: science, language arts...
• PBS Teachers resources!
• Printable songs, music, dance..

Future of Education video

Educational Foundations Core Topics we cover:

Comparative/International Education

Social & Cultural Contexts

History of American Education

Philosophy of Education

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