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Posts tagged: "school"


So today was the end of our first year teaching in China.  I’m exhausted after getting my kids out the door with all their stuff, and then packing up all of my stuff.  I wanted to write about the day though, to remember how it feels.

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Here are the photos we took of Tokyo International School.

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My good friend Trent has been teaching in northern Canada for a couple years now. He’s been teaching middle school social studies, among other things. The school’s rural and many of its attendants are conservative farmers who don’t always have a strong appreciation for formal education.

In a reply to one of my posts Trent asked me for my thoughts on this question:

Click to continue reading “Trent: How do you intrinsically motivate students?”

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