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It could always be worse

Posted March 13, 2015 in Special Education, Teacher Tales by Mick Jackson.

blog video 1 from VESi Online Courses on Vimeo. Share some of your more interesting stories below in the comments section.

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Post Holiday Blues

Posted January 5, 2015 in Educator Education by Mick Jackson.

  During my years in the classroom I often wondered who came back with the worst holiday hangover – my students or me.   Let’s face it, we all look […]

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Holiday Stress for Kids

Posted December 3, 2014 in Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.

Many of us have been brought up to believe the holidays are a wonderfully happy time of year. TV and radio stations play a variety of merry music and shows […]

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Good Ideas Gone Bad

Posted November 3, 2014 in Special Education by Mick Jackson.

I’ve written the occasional blog on mistakes I’ve made as a teacher of exceptional students. I suppose it would be nice to look back on an unblemished and illustrious career […]

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How Do I Learn?

Posted October 14, 2014 in Differentiated Instruction, Educator Education by Mick Jackson.

Over the past couple of years there has been a strong push in our education system to differentiate instruction. With No Child Left Behind and now Common Core Standards legislation […]

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Normal Can Be Deceiving

Posted September 3, 2014 in Differentiated Instruction, Special Education, Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.
Tags: classroom, differentiated instruction, learning, learning disabilities, learning disability, lessons, school district, teacher, teaching

As an education specialist who has worked in the field of exceptionality for over two decades I have overheard one parent say to another, on more than one occasion, “well […]

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We’re All Human

Posted August 14, 2014 in Special Education, Teacher Tales by Mick Jackson.
Tags: human, learn, mistakes, spelling, teacher, teaching, teaching tips

Sometimes as teachers we’re looked upon as an all seeing all knowing oracle, especially in the primary grades, that simply is above any type of mundane mistake. It’s easy to […]

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Treating Students as Individuals

Posted July 31, 2014 in Differentiated Instruction, Special Education by Mick Jackson.
Tags: DI, differentiated instruction, teaching, teaching tips

I find it interesting that in this age of national education standards there is still a strong push to treat the learning needs of every child individually. Don’t get me […]

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Better Ways to Handle Aggression

Posted July 11, 2014 in Classroom Management, Differentiated Instruction, Student Behavior by Mick Jackson.
Tags: Aggressive students, angry students, behavior issues, classroom behavior, difficult students, teaching tips

“The squeaky wheel always gets the oil!” is no more true than in the school setting. One of the squeakiest wheels is the child with anger and aggression issues. In […]

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Harassment in a Digital Age

Posted May 22, 2014 in Classroom Management, Student Behavior, Topics for Discussion by Mick Jackson.
Tags: bully, bullying, cyber bully, cyber bullying, harassment, new wave harassment, special education teachers

I remember back in elementary school when a couple of schoolmates kept getting dragged into the principal’s office for teasing a kid that lived just down the street from them. […]

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