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62 “Keep a Question in Your Kup”
Miriam Hirsch
How to give students permission to ponder.
65 Teaching Children with
Challenging Behavior
Caltha Crowe
Knowing what triggers the outbursts of young
children can help shape an effective response.
68 What Helps Us Learn?
High school students tell us what they mean
when they say “meet us where we are.”
Listen online at www.ascd.org/el.
70 The Teacher Who
Made Me Speak
Carl Glickman
The author remembers the teacher who
refused to let him off the hook.
50
Departments
Perspectives
5 What Your Master Teacher Knows
Marge Scherer
Listen online at www.ascd.org/el.
The Art and Science of Teaching
71 Using Games to Enhance
Student Achievement
Robert J. Marzano
Digitally Speaking
73 Why Teachers Should Try Twitter
William M. Ferriter
What Research Says About…
79 Differentiated Learning
Tracy A. Huebner
The Principal Connection
85 Meeting Teachers
Where They Are
Joanne Rooney
87 Announcing EL‘s Themes
for 2010–2011
95 ASCD Community in Action
96 EL Online
96 Index to Advertisers
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