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Teach Outside the Box

When one boy's teacher told him he was "addled," he took his pestering "why" questions home to his mother and developed his own basement laboratory.

The result? 1,093 patented inventions, including the light bulb, the phonograph, and the microphone.

Thomas Edison never seemed to have trouble thinking "outside the box"--much to the annoyance of his teacher and to the credit of his mother's patience.

Today, everyone acknowledges that his inquisitive, creative, and persistent thinking revolutionized our world.

We teachers transfer our thinking patterns and living patterns to our students--whether we realize it or not. If we are content with . . . READ FULL ARTICLE

Did You Know?

The word rubric is derived from the Middle French word rubique, and from the Latin word ruba and literally means red ink.

Red headings found in medieval typography are called rubrics as well as the words of Jesus in Red Letter edition Bibles.

In academia, teachers' notes written on students' papers with red ink were called rubrics. Today, rubrics are known as scoring tools. 

Tip: BJU Press offers free printable reading rubrics for use with our reading textbooks. Use these to make assessing reading groups a whole lot easier!

Priority Check!

Did you hear the one about the Super Bowl? There's an empty seat between two men in the stadium. 

We all can recognize misplaced priorities--in other people, at least. The problem with misplaced priorities, of course, is that it's hard enough . . . READ FULL ARTICLE