June 22 - Teachers.Net Tip of the Day:
Grade Level Resources
<prev tip next tip>
 
THE 30 DAYS OF TEACHERS.NET is a special mailing to subscribers of the Teachers.Net Mailring. Help us celebrate this special month, by passing along this tip to your teacher and administrator colleagues.
Subscribe to receive Teachers.Net announcements.
---------------------------------

Teachers.Net was founded to service teachers across the entire educational range - whether you're located in the states or abroad, teach from anatomy to zoology, student teachers, beginning teachers, seasoned veterans, even retired teachers - Teachers.Net provides for everyone with a calling to teach. Today's tip helps teachers connect with other teachers in their grade level, and find resources especially targeted for teachers of their grade level.
 

In This Issue:

Grade Level Chatboards Grade Level Mailrings Grade Level Lesson Plans Grade Level Live Meetings Live Workshop Archive

Teachers who regularly visit Teachers.Net no doubt are aware of the Mentor Center, which provides teachers access to over 150 unique chatboards for all major aspects of teaching.  You've probably also seen our prominent red link in the top right, directing you to the Chat Center, an extremely fast-moving page capturing the latest discussions occurring all across Teachers.Net.

But you may not be aware that Teachers.Net offers a channel exclusively dedicated to the grade level that you teach.  Whether you teach childcare or are a college instructor, Teachers.Net has a discussion network just for you.

Grade Level Chatboards
Teachers.Net offers web-based discussion boards (our chatboards) for every grade level.  The Grade Level chatboards are all indexed at on the Grade Level Chatboards page.  They can also be accessed directly from the footer of every page (see the drop box featuring our site map); from the side links on the Chat Center page, and from the Mentor Center complete chatboard listing.

Current Listing of Grade Level Chatboards:

• Child Care
• EC/Pre-K Chatboard
• Kindergarten
• Primary Elementary
• Upper Elementary
• Middle School
• High School
• College Instructor
• Adult Ed
• Multiage Classroom

These chatboards move very quickly, so you'll want to bookmark them and return often.  If you have a nagging question relevant to your grade level, this is a great place to start - post to these chatboards as frequently as you are able, the more you post the more useful these resources become for your peer group.

If you haven't been by these chatboards yet, stop in and introduce yourself.  You'll find the teachers on the Grade Level Chatboards are wonderfully supportive, and love to welcome new voices to the group.


Grade Level Mailrings
In addition to the Grade Level Chatboards, Teachers.Net also features a collection of email discussion lists exclusively for teachers of every grade level.  Like the chatboards, the Teachers.Net Mailrings connect teachers with a common interest in a collaborative support environment.  However, the mailrings provide the convenience of having the discussions sent directly to your email box.  In addition, the mailrings also dispatch chatboard digests or updates for the chatboards directly to each corresponding mailring.  Most chatboards have a complementary mailring, and to catch all the news, information, and chat, we recommend you visit the chatboard regularly and subscribe to its companion mailring.

Current Listing of Grade Level Mailrings:

• Childcare
• Early-Childhood
• Kindergarten
• Grade1
• Grade2
• Grade3
• Grade4
• Grade5
• Middle-School
• High-School
• Professors
  
  
• Teach-Talk (ALL grade levels)
• Multiage (Multi-age classroom)
• Adult-Education

For fastest subscribing, see the Teachers.Net Mailrings page, where you can sign up for as many mailrings as you like from a single page.


Grade Level Lesson Plans
Teachers.Net hosts a collection of over 4000 teacher-submitted lesson plans, from short simple ideas to give your lesson some zing, to advanced standards-based curricula.  All lessons in the Teachers.Net Lesson Bank are categorized and searchable by grade level (as well as subject area).

To browse the hundred of great lesson plans in your grade level, look for the "browse " link on the top of every page of the Lesson Bank, or scan the categories listed on the Homepage of the Lesson Bank.

Current Listing of Grade Level Lesson Plans:

• Grade Levels
• Pre-school/EC
• Kindergarten
• Elementary
• Middle
• Senior
• Advanced
• Other

Grade Level Live Meetings
In addition to the wonderful grade level resources listed above, Teachers.Net also hosts live meetings for different grade levels.  Be sure to check the Live Meeting page for the latest listing of upcoming live events.

Upcoming live meetings on Teachers.Net:

06/23   Art Teachers

06/24   Early Childhood & Kindergarten Teachers

06/25   10 a.m. ET 6 Traits Writing

                 11 amE Making the Most of Being Mentored.w/Hal Portner.

                 9pm ET Math Teachers

06/26   10 a.m. ET: 4 Blocks Literacy Chat

                 Later: 9 pm ET Special Education Teachers

06/27   9p NBPTS Excep. Needs.

                 At 10:30p Prof Topics

06/28   10 am - Decluttering Book Talk

                 9pmE School Administrators

06/29   Noon-4pmE Special Event: Dr. Dan Janik, author BBL expert

06/30   Science Teachers

Be sure to explore our extensive live workshop archive. All sessions are held at 9pm *Eastern* in the Meeting Room, unless otherwise noted. Teachers.Net live meetings are available free of charge to all educators.

Contact Kathleen Carpenter to suggest a live meeting topic.

That covers the major grade level resources on Teachers.Net.  If you'd like to suggest a resource or give us feedback on any of our resources, you can post to our Feedback Chatboard, or if you don't want it published, use our feedback contact form.


That's it for now from Teachers.Net headquarters in San Diego - I hope you're enjoying your summer!

 
Bob Reap
Site Developer
Teachers.Net
==
 
<prev tip next tip>
 

June: The 30 Days of Teachers.Net

1. The Teachers.Net Gazette
2. Teacher Mailrings
3. Harry & Rosemary Wong
4. The Lesson Bank
5. Teacher Tech Center
6. Teacher Classifieds
7. State Teachers.Net Network
8. Live Teacher Chat & Live Meetings
9. Free Teacher "Printables"
10. Classroom Project Center
11. Teacher Chatboard Network
12. Share Teachers.Net
13. Build Teachers.Net with Your Feedback
14. Interest Groups
15. Administrators.Net
16. Teachers.Net Chat Center
17. Streaming Teacher Video
18. Teachers.Net Tutor Center
19. Academic Grant Resources
20. Teachers.Net Bookshelf
21. Tips For The Chatboard
22. Grade Level Resources
23. Teachers.Net Staffroom Flyer
24. Teachers.Net Archives
25. Hot Topics
26. Language Arts Center
27. Subject Area Resources
28. Teachers.Net Quick Links
29. The Faces Behind Teachers.Net
30. Teachers.Net Summer Job Fair