Harry & Rosemary Wong

by Harry & Rosemary Wong
And even more amazing are his students. Click here to see and hear a wonderful class perform for yourself! We know that no school-age child is too young to learn and follow procedures. When you establish procedures and routines early in the school year, you free up the rest of the year for teaching and learning in the content areas.

by Harry & Rosemary Wong
New teacher attrition would disappear and student achievement would sky rocket! In Arizona, where 25 percent of the population is Latino, many schools have low achievement and low graduation rates; yet there are schools performing well enough to beat the national test-score odds.

Harry and Rosemary Wong
Coaching is six times more effective than class-size reduction. Importance of Academic Coaches
Baseball season and Spring Training are upon us. A major league baseball team signed Bill Carpenter, now a retired elementary school principal, when he graduated from high school. At training camp, he recalls, the camp was crawling with coaches.

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Meet Alex Kajitani, the 2007 Middle School Math Teacher of the Year for Greater San Diego. Alex teaches in Escondido, California. His middle school is in a primarily Latino neighborhood, and is one of the lowest-performing schools in the district in one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the state.

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Meet Alex Kajitani, the 2007 Middle School Math Teacher of the Year for Greater San Diego.

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
This month’s column won’t reveal the secrets of a master illusionist. It’s not a recipe for a heavenly baked meringue dessert. It’s about teachers without a classroom who roam the corridors in search of a nesting place.

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
We teach you to plan so you can plan to teach. We love to play Mexican Train®. For those who are not familiar with this game, it's a dominos type game where there are three or more games going on simultaneously—at the same time!

Harry and Rosemary Wong
These are their stories of how they began their school years with a first day of school script and how this simple technique transformed them into effective teachers.

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Beth Sommers is about to finish her first year teaching fifth grade in New Hampshire and by all accounts her year has been very successful.
The three most important words to a teacher are preparation, preparation, preparation.

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Districts are gearing up to recruit more teachers to fill the same positions vacated by teachers recruited the previous year.
Here’s why.
OMG. Here they come. Generation Y.

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
"I don't see how this applies to me. I teach high school and this all looks so elementary," is a statement we hear all too often – with embarrassment. When we respond to these teachers and tell them we want to help if they would tell us what they want as a high school teacher, we never hear from them. Follow us and you may understand why we never get an answer.

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
There are seven things every student wants to know on the first day of school and one of these is “How will I be graded?” The other six can be found on page 105 in The First Days of School.

Dr. Lena Nuccio-Lee, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at the University of New Orleans, was given a few hours to get on campus, gather what she needed out of her office, and get out.  With no utilities in the building after hurricane Katrina, she went straight to her dimly lit, musty office and took her desktop computer and her textbooks. If the University of New Orleans was to reopen she said, "We were not going down without a fight;

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Oretha Ferguson teaches sophomore English in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and she is proud to share that her students have achieved so much success that they believe they can conquer any poem.

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Collette Comatzer, a student in Norm Dannen's class at Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin, New Jersey, says, "A rubric is a scale that teachers may use to grade an article of writing from their students.