3. Teaching Old Logs New Tricks
Collection Overview
This collection includes 101 color cartoon images from Teaching Old Logs New Tricks. A digital version of the book with the cartoons in the order they were originally published is available at this link: https://cdi.uvm.edu/book/uvmcdi-105357
Gian...
Show moreThis collection includes 101 color cartoon images from Teaching Old Logs New Tricks. A digital version of the book with the cartoons in the order they were originally published is available at this link: https://cdi.uvm.edu/book/uvmcdi-105357
Giangreco, M. F. (2000). Teaching old logs new tricks: Absurdities and realities of education. Corwin. (out of print, 2019).
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- Title
- Last straw
- Date Created
- 2000
- Description
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The cartoon shows a two-humped camel and a person standing on a stool loading files onto the camels back in the space between the humps. The load is so heavy that the camel yells out, "Ouch! My Back!" The person putting the files on its back says, "Just one more!" The tag line reads, "Practice...
Show moreThe cartoon shows a two-humped camel and a person standing on a stool loading files onto the camels back in the space between the humps. The load is so heavy that the camel yells out, "Ouch! My Back!" The person putting the files on its back says, "Just one more!" The tag line reads, "Practice preventing problems: Find out what the last straw will be before it's too late."
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- Title
- When I Grow Up…
- Date Created
- 2000
- Description
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The cartoon is four panels arranged in two-by-two square. Each panel has a person on a television screen. In the top left panel is a boy saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a Special Educator so I can complete mountains of paperwork for my huge caseload of students." In the panel on the top...
Show moreThe cartoon is four panels arranged in two-by-two square. Each panel has a person on a television screen. In the top left panel is a boy saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a Special Educator so I can complete mountains of paperwork for my huge caseload of students." In the panel on the top right is a girl saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a School Principal so that people from different stakeholder groups can take turns getting mad at me." In the panel on the lower left side is a girl saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a Paraprofessional. So that I get paid minimum wages to do teacher work." In the lower right panel is a boy saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a School Psychologist so I can give lots of tests to kids." The tag line reads, "Who will want to do these jobs when they grow up?"
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- Title
- Word Problems
- Date Created
- 2000
- Description
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The cartoon shows a document labeled, "Mediation Exam." It reads, "27. During a one-hour meeting, if a parent speaks about her child's educational needs at 120 words per minute and a professional listens to 83 of those words per minute while simultaneously scanning 6 pages of the students file,...
Show moreThe cartoon shows a document labeled, "Mediation Exam." It reads, "27. During a one-hour meeting, if a parent speaks about her child's educational needs at 120 words per minute and a professional listens to 83 of those words per minute while simultaneously scanning 6 pages of the students file, how many years will if take for them to understand each other?" There is a hand with a pencil coming from the right side of the panel getting ready to write in the answer. The tag line reads, "Word Problems."
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