TWIRP – The Week In Review Post
November 30, 2007Get to Know Your Neighborhood Trees – The last time you took a walk outside, what did you notice? Cars? People? Birds? Probably not the trees, although they are in many ways the most dynamic living organisms in our ecosystem.
Command Respect in Your Classroom – Some teachers are naturals in the classroom. Something about them gives the impression that they know what they’re talking about. Students, and other teachers, are simply compelled to listen to them. But what about the rest of us? Is classroom leadership something you either have or you don’t?
Round Up your Vocabulary Skills and Play Herd a Word – Show off your vocabulary with Herd a Word, an online word-finding game. It’s pretty simple – piece together words from the alphabetic jumble in front of you.
Get Some Culture — Loggia Will Help – Thanks to Loggia, the humanities are sleekly attainable and entirely accessible without having to drudge through pages of dusty text. This resource provides a searchable database of articles, biographies and features designed to edify and entertain those of us who love the humanities.
I Love That Teaching Idea! Me Too! – I remember a book called “Everything I Know I Learned in Kindergarten” — the one thing I remember from kindergarten is the idea of sharing. I Love That Teaching Idea! is a website designed to allow teachers to share and share alike.
These days it’s hardly appropriate to refer to a works cited page as a “bibliography.” Books? Sure they still make the list, but non-print resources are taking over. As nice as it is that your students don’t have to find a ride to the public library before they can get started on their projects, the variety of accessible information has wreaked havoc on their works cited pages. Getting the MLA formatting right was hard enough in our day when we only had to remember one or two formulas and all the information we needed was guaranteed to be on the first few pages of a text. Now… well, now your students deserve a little help, and 
I remember a book called “Everything I Know I Learned in Kindergarten” — the one thing I remember from kindergarten is the idea of sharing. 
If you laid a million pennies end-to-end in a straight line, you’d ask yourself, “Why did I just do that?” For that matter, who has that kind of small change?
In high school, my favorite class – humanities – was also one of the most challenging. Art and its history have always been very intriguing to me, and I’ll take a museum or theater over a sports arena any day. Granted, there’s a lot to art and history and how the humanities came to be, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to explore the aspects about them that you’re really interested in. Mythology, for example, was one of my earliest areas of interest growing up. Thanks to 
Show off your vocabulary with 
Trebuchet isn’t just a stylish font. It’s also a 
Forget about struggling over getting that Ph.D. or Master’s degree– now you can get all the science knowledge you need from 
As the semester draws to a close, you’ve decided to cash in your remaining goodwill with your students and assign them a research paper. Research assignments are hard work for both teachers and students. In addition to having to grade the things, you’ve got to teach your class a whole new skill set: how to research wisely and effectively. Fortunately for them, they’ve got a few more tools at their disposal than when you and I were in school. In addition to pointing these tools out, you can show your pupils how to be smart about using them.
Today was just rotten- you had an outburst in your third period Language Arts class, there was a fight in the cafeteria and you had to get involved, you spent hours on the activity bus headed to a soccer game that was entirely too far away, and with the few hours you had left, you graded essays written in the five-paragraph format because they’re about a week overdue. And to top it all off, your cat pooped outside the box. Come to think of it, when was the last time you cleaned that litterbox?
Even for his fans, Shakespeare’s works can be difficult. The world, and the English language itself, worked a lot differently in the 1600s. It’s only natural that today’s students could use a little help wading through it. Lucky for them, they’ve got 
Some teachers are naturals in the classroom. Something about them gives the impression that they know what they’re talking about. Students, and other teachers, are simply compelled to listen to them. But what about the rest of us? Is classroom leadership something you either have or you don’t?
As the Web grows, teachers are realizing the importance of having an online presence for their classrooms. 
