This Week’s Teaching Tips and News – February 2, 2009

Today's articles for teachers from around the web:

• Philosophy for Children

– A superb resource for getting children to “do” philosophy. Philosophical questions for books like Stellaluna and Alexander and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Do yourself and your students a favor and explore this site. Students don’t do nearly enough of this kind of deep thinking.

• Academic Earth – Video lectures from the world’s top scholars
• Lesson #1: Good teachers share one special quality

– An excellent article on the qualities of a good teacher by award-winning educator Hal Urban