Tech Integration: Ready, Fire, Aim...
Technology is
education's most accepted and sought after subject-the acceptance of computers in the schools is almost an article of faith. It's need is not questioned, the curriculum being taught is not questioned - even a marginal technology/computer education program would be viewed as exceptional....
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Around the Block With...
Lincoln Elementary
houses students in grades Pre-K through fifth grade. Our Pre-K and our kindergarten do attend classes all day. Lincoln provides a unique opportunity for students and parents. We offer parents and students the choice of selecting a traditional calendar or a year round calendar. This has been a very successful program for our school....
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Successful ADD Kids In The Classroom...
Nearly twenty
Many children and adults with ADD have low self-esteem. In fact, many adults with ADD suffer from depression. As a person with ADD, I know from experience that it's hard to feel good about yourself when you feel like a failure in so many ways....
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The Power of the Teacher...
A great motivational speaker once told me a story about a teacher in the 70s who was given a list of her students with their IQ scores listed beside them. The teacher instilled high expectations of her students, requiring them to complete work much unlike the students were used to accomplishing. The assignments that she bestowed upon them were expected to be completed because according to their scores they were capable of the work....
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Gazette Authors New in Print...!
Teachers.Net is
proud to announce that three Gazette columnists have published new books worthy of your attention. Check out the newest titles from the writers who bring you the Teachers.Net Gazette every month....!
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Harry & Rosemary Wong: How to Recognize Where You Want to Be
What new teachers want is an induction program. Only in education do we talk about "mentoring alone." Doctors, factories workers, secretaries, chefs, electricians, and dental hygienists do not receive a mentor. They are trained and guided. Can you imagine an airline that does not train its pilots, but provides each pilot with a mentor and tells them that if they are in trouble at 35,000 feet to call their mentor for reflection...? |
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The Empowerment Of Choice
In an attempt to assist students with special needs, new categories of disabilities have been created. Students are labeled and classified with behavioral disorders....
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Media Center as the Hub of 4 Blocks
Often, as we encourage students to acquire good reading habits we don't see that we are their best models for lifetime reading. We may use the time in school to help establish....
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Using the Web for High School Student-Writers
By today's pedagogical standards, I am a Constructivist. I have always been one since my first days as a teacher of writing in 1974. I have always believed the Deweyian idea that we learn by doing and having my students do is the best way to have my students learn how to learn. My classroom is student centered and not teacher centered. Watching students work out problems in groups or in isolation is education at its best.... |
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Serving Gifted Children in the Classroom
Even when children are identified as "gifted," most states do not fund special programs for them, because of compelling arguments to devote special resources to those who underperform academically or in the arts....
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The Risks of Rewards
Many educators are acutely aware that punishment and threats are counterproductive. Making children suffer in order to alter their future behavior can often elicit temporary compliance, but this strategy is unlikely to help children become ethical, compassionate decision makers....
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New Gazette Feature from Bad Wolf
About a month ago my wife and I made our weekly pilgrimage to the local bookstore with our five-year old daughter. While weaving our way between the aisles (and being careful to dodge the Berenstain Bear section), we suddenly and literally came face-to-face with a wall of wonderful African masks. It was only after our daughter asked where they came from that we saw the banner explaining that they had all been made by elementary school students not much older than she.... |
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Jan Fisher: Motivating The Middle Schooler
Teachers can unknowingly communicate a range of attitudes about whether ability in school is fixed or changeable. It is important that we make every effort to help students see that their successes or failures are very much under their own control. One way to accomplish this, is in the way we give feedback to students - explicit feedback that links their successes, or lack of successes, to variables which they control.... |
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Tolerance
The 2000
census shows that our country is becoming increasingly diverse in its population. Many of us live and work in communities with an assortment of members of various religious, ethnic, and racial groups, though many do not. We owe it to our children to prepare them for a future in which they will interact with people whose beliefs....
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The Relevance of The Gifts of All Children
Now, my
husband can never find things. He'll run around the house looking high and low for something right under his nose. Finally, I'll get up, pick up the missing item, and hand it to him. It was always there; he just couldn't see it....
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Jan Birney: Preparing a Life Resume
I have a theory. We have work resumes. And we have life resumes. And the life resumes are the ones that help one feel competent. I don't have much of a work resume--about 6 years of full time teaching, 5 years as a sub and a whole chunk of my life that was spent raising children. I could fit it all on one page. But my life resume, now that's a different story.... |
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