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Teaching Technique - Legacy

BY DEFINITION: Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past

How do you want your students to remember you?
If you are walking in a local mall and one of your former students sees you then runs to give you a hug and a thank you, would that make you happy.
If you overheard one of your students saying “she is the best teacher I ever had”, How would that make you feel?

What if they did not remember yo… Continue

I do presentations for students entitled HOW TO LEARN.
This has placed in tens of schools.
In each of these schools I have seen the concepy LIFE LONG LEARNER
heavily promoted. ( I feel this is GREAT)
To many times I have queried teachers about the outdated Windows software
they were using. I have been disappioted at the responses I have gotten.
Many have responded " I am going to retire in three years I don't intend to learn
anything new.
TO TEACH STUDENTS TO BE LIFELONG LEARNERS SHOULDN'T… Continue

Life’s Inventory


So you
have been living for 40 or 50 or 60 years. What do you have to show for it?
What comes to your mind first?
Your children? Your house? your car?
Were your children an accomplishment or an accident?
Sho… Continue

A dear friend proclaimed “I am so upset this lady at work was dressed so
Inappropriately, she uses such bad grammar and she is not friendly to her co-workers.
In addition, I am miserable because I have a hard time making friends at work.

My response was, refocus your life camera. When… Continue

8 Rungs Of Accountability
4 Rungs of Unaccountability
Blame others
Unconscious unaware
"I Can't"
"Wait and Hope"
Victims are people who don't know there is a problem, or who know there is a problem and blame someone else, or they say there is nothing they can do about it or they say they will wait it out and hopes it gets better.
4 Rungs of Accountability -- The Powerful
Making it happen
owning the responsibility for making it happen whether people help you or not
finding a solution
Acknowledge… Continue