Things looked grimmer for Pence, and the religious right, than they ever had before. Deliverance manifested itself to Mike Pence on the back nine of Donald Trump’s golf course in New Jersey. Michael Vick spent nearly two years in prison after pleading guilty in 2007 to federal conspiracy charges over his role in a dogfighting operation, so this news from ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler is just.

Mike Huckabee on Gulf Coast preparing for hurricane season amid pandemic

The Gulf Coast prepares for Tropical Storm Cristobal while taking the coronavirus pandemic into account; reaction and analysis from Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee encouraged all Republicans to “make the right move” and stand behind President Trump, following a New York Times report that claimed former President George W. Bush and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, won’t support Trump’s reelection.

Huckabee, a Fox News contributor, told “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday, “If you have people who were nominated and in the case of President Bush, actually elected to be president by Republicans, and they will no longer support the Republican nominee, who went through the process and got elected, then I’m going to be not just unhappy, I’m going to be livid.”

The New York Times article, headlined, “Vote for Trump? These Republican Leaders Aren’t on the Bandwagon,” was published Saturday.

“Former President George W. Bush won’t support the re-election of Mr. Trump, and [former Florida Gov.] Jeb Bush isn’t sure how he’ll vote, say people familiar with their thinking,” the article read. “Senator Mitt Romney of Utah won’t back Mr. Trump and is deliberating whether to again write in his wife, Ann, or cast another ballot this November.”

The article went on to note that “Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain, is almost certain to support Mr. [Joe] Biden but is unsure how public to be about it because one of her sons is eying a run for office.”

Huckabee said he wasn’t sure if the information in the article was true “because it’s in the New York Times and I take a lot of things in the New York Times with a grain of salt because they’re wrong more than they’re right.”

He then went on to explain why he would be “livid” if the information in the article were correct.

“We didn’t all agree on some of the policies of Bush or McCain or Romney, but when it came down to it, we had a choice,” Huckabee said. “We could choose a far-left liberal or we could choose somebody that was closer to our views.”

He went on to say, “I get it that Donald Trump’s bedside manner is somewhat more like ‘Mean’ Joe Greene than it is the cool, collected Tom Brady, if it’s on the football field.”

Huckabee then explained what he didn’t understand “with these Never Trumpers” and outlined an “incredibly long litany of things” Trump has accomplished.

“This president is more pro-life than we’ve ever had, period. He’s more pro-Israel. He has deregulated so much government so that the businesses of America can thrive and they have until this COVID stuff happened,” Huckabee said. “This is a president who has stood up to the globalists, stood up to the unfair trade practices, brought back American jobs, has done more for minorities than any president in my lifetime in actually helping people to have good, decent jobs and a future.”

He then noted that despite all that, some people said they did not like Trump because of his personality.

“Well, get over it,” Huckabee said. “This is not about electing a personality, this isn’t Hollywood, this is the rough, tumble world of politics.”

He then acknowledged that perhaps Trump was “not as genteel as some of us would like, but, by gosh, he’s getting the job done, and it’s time Republicans rally because if they don’t, they’re going to get Joe Biden, who isn’t pro-life, who is for higher taxes, open borders. He’s going to succumb to China.”

Huckabee said Biden will embrace “everything that we find disgusting,” including socialism. “That’s why we have to realize this is a simple choice and we better make the right move.”

In a statement sent to Fox News reacting to The New York Times article the Trump campaign wrote, “President Trump has the support of a record number of Republicans across the country. He leads a united party and will win in November.”

Author Mike Gershon explains how to be an Outstanding Teacher

Outstanding teaching comes in many guises. All of these connect through one central premise: that learning takes centre stage. An obvious point, but one which can quickly slip from the forefront of our minds as time constraints, curriculum demands and behaviour management compete for our attention.

So how do we keep learning centre stage? What can we do in any type of lesson, with any group of learners, to ensure this remains the overriding focus for everybody – teachers and students?

The first step is to plan your lesson from the student’s point of view.

Rather than letting the content take control of the lesson, ensure that the lesson is in control of the content. That means asking at every stage of your planning:

• What will each learner in the class be doing here?
• How challenging will this section be for different groups of learners?
• Where are students going that they couldn’t go before?

This checklist gives you a framework for making sure all parts of your lesson are sculpted to meet the needs of your students. It makes your life easier further down the road, because you don’t need to do as much personalisation during the lesson itself.

With that said, a certain level of in-lesson differentiation is always necessary – and welcome.

Perhaps the best area for differentiation – and the most time-efficient – is the interactions between you and your students. Here, questioning dominates. Outstanding teaching therefore involves outstanding questioning.

You can use questioning to personalise your lessons in all sorts of ways. Through doing this, you keep learning front and centre – tailoring your interactions so they closely meet student needs.

One familiar tool you can use to do this is Bloom’s Taxonomy. With its delineation of mastery learning, the taxonomy provides the perfect framework for pitching questions at the right level for different students. To put it another way, the taxonomy is the number one tool for ensuring your questions are both accessible and sufficiently challenging.

Of course, whenever we ask a question in class we elicit information. This gives us an insight into students’ current knowledge and understanding. Even if a student does not – or cannot – answer, we gain information. And we can use this information to adapt, modify and tailor our teaching.

Looking for opportunities to elicit information means being aware of how important this is for the purposes of meeting student needs. One of the qualities of a good teacher is the ability to be flexible. Rather than just teaching what they have planned, they respond to what’s in front of them – using the information they elicit to do this.

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Whole-class feedback techniques such as traffic lights, mini-whiteboards and hinge questions are all excellent strategies through which to achieve this goal.

In conclusion then, outstanding teachers are not identical, but they do share a family resemblance. That resemblance is their prioritisation of learning – while planning, while teaching and while marking.

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To learn how to be an outstanding teacher, and to gain insight into dozens more practical strategies, sign up to our Outstanding Teaching CPD course with Mike Gershon today.