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Edlets - New Words for Educators

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Copyright 1996-2004 by John P. Wood. All rights reserved. No reproduction without permission.

Sample Edlets

appendamonium - when a student uses 14 staples and 8 paper clips on one three-page report.

corroberative learning - learning aimed at getting all group members to agree on the same excuse for not getting work done.

grademangler - the computer gradebook program that messes up all of your records.

interdisciplined - having been yelled at by one teacher in two subjects at the same time.

memoable - the important information presented in the mandatory staff meeting that would have fit nicely on one half-sheet of paper.

pretendance - what a teacher does at the beginning of each class after he has given up all hope of ever figuring out the school's new attendance policy.

staypers - papers you hand out that refuse to leave the room. Students will need these later, and you want them to keep them, but you find them left all over your classroom at the end of the period.

telesubbies - substitute teachers who only show videos.