TLJ Consulting Group, LLC

  • About Us
    • Contact
    • Sitemap
  • Mathematical Moments Blog
    • Mathematical Moments
      • Elementary
      • Secondary
      • Free Activity
    • Writing and Literacy
      • Elementary
      • Secondary
    • Odds & Ends
    • For Parents
  • Professional Learning
    • Courses
      • Course Catalog
    • Customized On-Site
    • Blended
    • TLJ Professional Learning & Resource Center
  • Resources
    • Q-Pyramids & Overlays: Tools for Effective Questioning
    • Resources for Questioning
    • In the News
    • Websites and Apps
    • The Mathematician’s Notebook: Chronicling a Student’s Journey
      • MNB Components
    • Gifted
    • Homeschool
    • Math Market – Resources by Grade Band
      • All Products
      • Strategy Saturdays Series, 2017-2018 Focus: Using Manipulatives in the Classroom
      • Free Resources
      • K-2 Resources
      • 3-5 Resources
      • 6-8 Resources
      • 9-12 Resources
        • Modular Mathematics – High School
      • My Account
      • Logout
  • Homeschool
    • Excursions through the SEASONS
    • Putting the A in STEAM
    • Excursions in STEAM 2017 – 2018
    • Excursions in TIME 2018 – 2019
  • Algebra I Employment Standards – 2021-2022
  • Math Market

Celebrating Teachers

October 4, 2016 by Tammy Jones

wtd-palindromeValuing Teachers, Improving their Status

This is the theme for the 50th World Teachers’ Day . UNESCO began World Teachers’ Day back in 1966 with the adoption of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers.

According to UNESCO:

This year’s theme, “Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status”, embodies the fundamental principles of the fifty-year-old Recommendation while shining a light on the need to support teachers as reflected in the agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A specific education goal, SDG4, pledges to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”.

 

In honor and celebration of teachers everywhere I have pulled together some of my favorite quotes about teaching and education. I am also sharing some of my favorite activities involving Palindromes – in honor of 6-10-2016 – a palindromic day (using day-month-year calendar notation.)

amanaplanacanalpanama

 

 

One of my favorite political cartoons:

See the palindrome?!

 

 

 

134a

Click image above to download the Mathematical Palindromes K-12 Activity to use in your class on the next Palindrome Day, Thursday, October 6th.  It’s FREE until Monday!

 

 

Read and reflect on your educational experiences! Thank you to teachers and educators everywhere!

Some of Tammy’ Favorite Quotes about Teaching and Education

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

  • Henry Brooks Adams

 It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  • Albert Einstein

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  • William Butler Yeats

 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  • Jacques Barzun 

 The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  • Robert M. Hutchins 

 If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

  • Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada

 Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you’ll make him an educational cripple…a pedagogical paraplegic.

  • Howard Hendricks

 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  • William A. Ward 

 The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  • C. S. Lewis

“[Kids] don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” 

  • Jim Henson

 A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

  • Brad Henry

 Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression.

  • Haim Ginott

 True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.

  • Nikos Kazantzakis

 If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

  • Barbara Colorose 

Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

  • Anonymous
Tweet

Filed Under: Odds & Ends

Mathematical Moments

The Top 5 Reasons for Using Manipulatives in the Classroom

Have you ever asked or said or heard a fellow educator ask or say… “Exactly what constitutes a manipulative?” “I have some of these manipulatives in my closet, but do not have a clue how to use them!” “How do I find the time to use manipluatives in the classroom when I have so much […]

Happy National National Chocolate Day: October 28thChocolate Day!

National Chocolate Day: October 28th My grandmother always said, “God was in a good mood the day He created chocolate!” I grew up thinking that chocolate was a basic food group! And, I admit, chocolate is one of my weaknesses. What does National Chocolate Day have to do with mathematics!   Well – where’s the math? […]

Functional Fluency

I just returned from NCTM Boston. What a great week! I got to catch up with a lot of old friends and made several new ones as well. My co-author, Leslie Texas, and I did a session on one of our strategies from our book series What’s My Move: A Kinesthetic Multisensory Approach to Graphing […]

Algebra I Employment Standards – 2022-2023

State Approved Hybrid Training Sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Education The State of Tennessee has provided various paths for qualified middle school teachers to teach Algebra I/Integrated Math I for high school credit. The various paths are described at https://www.tn.gov/education/licensing/educator-licensure/licensed-educators.html.  The purpose of the trainings offered here is to provide the pedagogical and content […]

Putting the “A” in STEAM

Are you looking for a summer workshop for your K-12 students? In July, I will be hosting an art/writing workshop for students K-12. We will be focusing on Putting the “A” in STEAM.  This 6-day enrichment workshop will focus around the arts and humanities. Students will create and begin to use a combined art journal […]

NCTM, San Francisco

My colleagues and I really enjoyed your presentation at NCTM.  We have already convinced our principal to pre-order us copies of your new book, but we would also like 4 class sets of the pyramids. 

Many presentations talked about problem solving and the benefits of giving students higher level thinking problems, but yours was the only one that really told us how to teach it and scaffold it for students, rather than just modeling what problem-solving looks likes.  Thanks.

Julie Jacewicz
Beaverton, OR

What our clients are saying…

TLJ created classroom resources on TLJ:

TLJ created classroom resources on:

TLJ created classroom resources on:

Copyright © 2023 · Outreach Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in