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Weekly Tips for Teachers
Issue 476: August 24, 2009

Weekly Theme: 2009 School Year Teacher Guide

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Teacher Resources For Your Week

Teaching Tip: What Is My Favorite?
By: Noah Sumner, English Teacher

An icebreaker that seems to work well for high-schoolers entails trying to guess their classmates´ favorite things. Circulate writing paper and pens and ask students to write their names and record their favorite (you as a teacher can come up with subject appropriate topics) things. Some ideas that I've used are: bands, TV shows, movies, books, subjects, foods, sports and athletes. Collect the papers, and read the answers, but have the class guess who responded. It's a good way to settle beginning of the year tension and get to know your classes.

This Week in History

1853: The first potato chips were prepared by Chef George Crum.

1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

Teacher Inspiration and Humor

Inspiring Teacher Quote
The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Jokes You Can Tell in Class

Summer vacation was over and Little Johnny returned back to school.

Only two days later his teacher phoned his mother to tell her that he was misbehaving.

"Wait a minute," she said. "I had Johnny with me for three months and I never called you once when he misbehaved!"

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