Tag Archives: learning

Steiner’s School Supply Store: Free Pencil For Every $100 Spent

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

Welcome to my little store, which has all of your school supply needs.  We open near the end of the school year to help people get their shopping done before the summer.  Don’t worry because the magic lasts for a … Continue reading →

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What Do You Know About Autism?

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Charles Yallowitz

I’m sure someone will argue with something up above.  Anyway, this is the end of the ‘Autism Awareness Month’ posts.  I’m curious to know if anybody learned anything interesting about autism.  Not only from my posts, but over the years … Continue reading →

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Questions 3: Basic Skills of Characters

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

Since basic skills can change from person to person, I figure I’ll open the floor.  Got my hands full today as well.  Keep in mind that I’m talking about the skills authors and readers don’t think about.  We take them … Continue reading →

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Skills We Take for Granted

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

This stems from something decades ago.  When making some 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons characters with players, one was asking why his barbarian wasn’t allowed to start with reading and writing.  He had to use points to give himself these … Continue reading →

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Poetry Day: Into the Textbook Fray

Posted on May 23, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

(I believe this was written when I was going to go back to school for medical coding.  It didn’t last more than a semester because of what happened.  Too many people going for it, so there was a job saturation.  … Continue reading →

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The Struggle for Mastery

Posted on April 5, 2024 by Charles Yallowitz

Mastery is a strange concept.  It’s something we always strive for, but not everyone has the same definition.  Even within the same field, people may see some as masters and others may see those same people as still learning.  Ego … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Being Interviewed

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

Just like before, this was inspired by a class last school year.  I figured if I did tips for one side of the table, I should do it for the other.  Thinking about it now, October is coming up with … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Running an Interview

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

I came up with this post and the one on Friday while I was a TA in an ELA class last school year.  The students had to interview a person, so they were learning about how to ask questions to … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Writing Teachers in Fiction

Posted on April 14, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

We did students on Wednesday, so let’s look at teachers.  Getting right into it since there’s not much more of a set up. The teacher doesn’t have to be an alcoholic, druggie, hermit, or any other type of troubled character.  … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Writing Student Characters

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Charles Yallowitz

To be clear, this is mostly about a main hero who is a student with a mentor.  So, we’re not looking at general student characters, but those who are in the spotlight.  They don’t even have to go to a … Continue reading →

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