Carnival of Educators: Rewards of Teaching Edition

Welcome to the March 16, 2010 edition of carnival of educators.

Rewards of Teaching

Teachin' presents "Can't I get it NOW????" posted at I'm a Dreamer, saying, "I teach for moments like this."

Reward Worthy

Megan Anne presents Don’t Stifle our Children: The Importance of Arts, Sports, Trades, and Specialized Classes in Schools posted at Moments with Megan, saying, "Most of the people we see today who excel in their fields (Drew Brees, Oprah Winfrey, Sandra Bullock), all found their talents as children. Actually, teachers/mentors often found them and helped foster them. I've listed four simple ways to help foster talent in our children."

Sarah Garb presents Kicked Off and Pissed Off posted at Dead Class Pets, saying, "Thanks for getting the carnival going again!"

Less than Rewarding Issues

Carol Richtsmeier presents Shut Those Eyes posted at Bellringers.

Biotunes presents Sociobiology shows us why racial integration is so hard, and so important posted at Bioblog by Biotunes, saying, "On the causes and implications of the trend back to segregated schools"

Sarah Ebner, School Gate presents Can you help an eight-year-old with her maths homework? posted at School Gate - Times Online - WBLG, saying, "Please help my daughter with her maths homework! We hate homework and find too much of it tedious....Thank!"

Well... At least they Tried

Pamela Jorrick presents Spillin' the Beans posted at Blah, Blah, Blog.

Andrea Presents Is Homeschooling Breaking the Rules? at Notes From a Homeschooling Mom.

Batya presents Classroom Control, What Burnt Me Out posted at Shiloh Musings.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of educators using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Other Valuable tools and stuff

Peggy Stoppelmoor presents The Educator’s Guide to Using Google Buzz posted at The .Edu Toolbox, saying, "One of the latest social media applications that has been getting a great deal of buzz is…Google's  Buzz."

Ana Paula presents How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement posted at iLibrarian.

Denise presents Game: Target Number (or 24) posted at Let's play math!, saying, "A card game for teaching math concepts: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, powers and roots, factorial, mental math, multi-step thinking."

Mariana Ashley presents 100 Amazing Videos for Teaching and Studying Physics posted at Online Colleges.net.