Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Diigo Resources

More Diigo Resources. Enjoy.

7 resources to teach and learn vocabulary
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/09/7-resources-for-teaching-and-learning.html

Utilizing You Tube in the classroom
http://www.youtube.com/teachers

Geography skills and vocabulary
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/10/geosense-online-vocabulary-game.html

A place for teachers to help teachers
http://www.teachercast.net/

Text your students and parents without using your phone number and it's free!
http://classparrot.com/

Solicit feedback from parents (or students) at Poll Everywhere
http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Friday, October 14, 2011

Teacher salaries and reality?

My son posted this on Facebook and I thought it would be a good blog post!


Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - babysit! We can get that for minimum wage. That's right. Let's give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning..time, or any time they spend before or after. school. 
That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan- that equals 6 1/2 hours). Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to babysit their children.
Now how many students do they teach in a day..maybe 30? So that's $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations. LET'S SEE..That's $585 X 180= $105,300 per year.
What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year
Wait a minute --there's something wrong here! There sure is! The average teacher's salary (nationwide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77 per day/30 students = $9.25 per 6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student - a very inexpensive babysitter and they even EDUCATE your kids! WHAT A DEAL!!!!

Make a teacher smile; re-post this to show appreciation for all educators.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

New Diigo resources

The weather is great, hope you enjoy these links.

Great way to do a virtual visit to museums
http://www.googleartproject.com/

Trying to figure out the constellations?
http://www.google.com/sky/

Translates into many, many languages
http://translate.google.com/

Simple timers for class
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/09/5-free-and-simple-timers-for-teachers.html

77 educational games foe elementary teachers
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/09/77-educational-games-and-game-builders.html

Mr. Gerry Kosater

There are two paths you can choose but there's always time to change the one you choose