Teachers -- even math teachers -- make mistakes. This is an important lesson for students to learn. So why not have some fun with it? Give a prize to the student who is first to catch the mistakes you make. As a math teacher, I give prizes only for catching math mistakes. I want to keep the focus on math, and I don't want to start debating whether or not items in a list should be capitalized (for example). But it would seem appropriate for a teacher of multiple subjects to give prizes for catching mistakes in any of those subjects.
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Wendy Petti: Even Teachers Make Mistakes
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