Archive for January, 2007

Girl charged with disorderly conduct for wetting her pants

The International Herald Tribune have reported that a “12-year-old special education student was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities said she deliberately wet her pants at school.” The girl’s mother has told the media that her daughter had only urinated because she was frightened by the school principal. The whole sorry saga got even worse [...]

It’s not unusual, in Australia at least, to find student teachers taking a 12 month break to go off and teach English in places like Japan. The number of ‘come and teach English in Japan’ ads in the employment section of the newspaper is a testament to this. There is a certain appeal that lies [...]

In a story reminiscent of an episode from Seinfeld, Mr Robert Nuranen is reported by CNN.com as having returned an overdue library book he’d borrowed for a ninth-grade assignment. Only problem for Mr Nuranen was that the book was due back in 1960. How much was he slugged for the late fees? $171.32. What a [...]

A question was posted in the forum recently regarding tips/tricks for reinforcing the “high frequency words” in the classroom. The question read:   I would love some new ideas to reinforce the ‘high frequency words’. Different word games, activities, etc. There are only so many games of Word Bingo my Prep grade can play. Any [...]