Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.5 No.4

April 2008

	Cover Story by Marvin Marshall
	Immaculate Perception
	There is no such thing as immaculate perception. What you see is what you thought before you looked.
	Harry & Rosemary Wong
	Effective Teaching
	Schools That Beat the Academic Odds
	Columns
»	Are We Demanding Enough of Our Students?
»	The Busy Educator's Monthly Five
»	Podcasting 101
»	Think Outside the Box
»	Problem-Based Learning Part 2: Good problems
»	Ten Ways to Foster Resiliency in Children
	Articles
»	Finger in the Dike Protects Half the Kingdom
»	April 2008 Writing Prompts
»	Amusing Abacus
»	Making the Grade
»	The Disrespecting of Social Studies
»	Classroom Magazines: More Than Just Shared Reading
»	The Silenced Majority
»	I Won't Learn What You Teach!
»	Dear Laura Bush
»	Choice, Access, and Relevance: Reading Workshop in the High School Classroom
»	Stay Inside the Lines
»	Chat with Grant Writing Expert LaVerne Hamlin
»	Proofreading and Learning Disability
»	Choose-a-Chart
»	Drexel Online Education Program
	Features
»	Featured Lessons: April 2008
»	Video Bytes: Abbott and Costello, Earth Day rant and more
»	Today Is... Daily Commemoration for April 2008
»	Live on Teachers.Net: April 2008
»	The Lighter Side of Teaching
»	Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes for Teachers
»	HELP! Grading: How Do You Do It?
»	Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers

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A classic and hilarious math lesson with Abbott and Costello Education for Tomorrow in a rapidly changing world! Dramatic and interesting! Technology! Use what students love in order to teach more effectively Problem Based Learning - Creating a good driving question Earth Day rant by Lewis Black on The Daily Show Middle School Science Lesson: Convection Currents in Earth's Mantle Lab

by Kathleen Alape Carpenter Regular Feature for the Gazette April 1, 2008

Abbott and Costello - Math http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WMi5TUJDso A classic and hilarious math lesson with Abbott and Costello (3:06) Education Today and Tomorrow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE Education for Tomorrow in a rapidly changing world! Dramatic and interesting! (2:30) Pay Attention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFKfXiCbLw Technology! Use what students love in order to teach more effectively. (7:41) Problem Based Learning http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=360d2c590de5146e67b4 Creating a good driving question (7:28) Lewis Black - Back In Black 04/25/07 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SDQu7Izrk Earth Day rant by Lewis Black on The Daily Show (3:56) Middle School Science Lesson http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=04ef5c28e30c8569aa72 Convection Currents in Earth's Mantle Lab (4:47) » More Gazette articles... http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm

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