Back To School - CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
OK - the "taxidermy-thingy" was just mean, sorry! But, they have "Dummies" for everything - everything it seems, except:
They just do not stock this title! Now, this struck me as a little strange. Remember, I told you that I got to my 100th posting earlier this week? While I may have given up counting how many words I have used across all those postings - I did not give up on the most popular "internet search items" that brought people to allthingslearning. The Top 12 search items (in order) were:
classroom management
teaching
evil yoda
assessment for learning
classroom cartoon
jedi
yoda
sith yoda
classroom
teaching cartoon
lesson plan
classroom management cartoonSERIOUSLY! These 12 items alone account for 35% of the traffic to this blog – again, these “Happiness Engineers” at WordPress give me such useful data! Now, this showed me a great many possible things:
I clearly write far too much about Star Wars on my blog!
Lots of educators are just as interested in “Evil Sith Yoda” – as I am!
Teachers and educators just surf the net for cartoons! The one thing it did highlight for me was the interest in classroom management. In the past, I have done a couple of posts on classroom management (these have, again, been some of the most popular posts we have on the blog):
Are we on the right “track” with CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT?
Are we on the right “track” with CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT?
Are we on the right “track” with CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT? Now, apart from re-blogging these – I wondered what else I could do (until "Classroom Management for Dummies” is published) to help all those teachers that are getting ready to “go back to school” this week…in this part of the world! I have also complied a list of my favourite Classroom Management resources in a “new” library (hot off the press – see below). It contains a number of the books I talk about in the two posts above! Enjoy!
But, hey – if you just came for the cartoon, here it is:
