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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 Advertisement The Teachers.Net Gazette is a collaborative project published by the Teachers.Net community Editor in Chief: Kathleen Alape Carpenter Layout Editor: Mary Miehl Cover Story by Marvin Marshall Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong Contributors this month: Cheryl Sigmon, Marjan Glavac, Rob Reilly, Barbara & Sue Gruber, Hal Portner, Leah Davies, Tim Newlin, James Wayne, P.R. Guruprasad, Todd Nelson, Alan Haskvitz, Mandy Yates, Bill Page, Susan Rismiller, Bradley Cook, Kimberly Payne, Kevin Coffey, John Keegan, and YENDOR. Submissions: click for Submission Guidelines Advertising: contact Bob Reap Subscribe for free home delivery Email: State: - Select State (required) - Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington DC Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming -- Canada United Kingdom Australia/NZ Other Featured Advertiser Links FEATURED ADVERTISER LINKS

Video Bytes... Teachers.Net Community 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... Discussion for: 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 Video Bytes (April 2008 Gazette) Be the first to add a comment - CLICK HERE Suggest A Streaming Video For Video Bytes... Name: Email: Describe video and include its URL (complete web address): Related Resources & Discussions on Teachers.Net... Computer Teachers Library/Media Specialists Apple Classroom Educational Software Web Authors Tech Coordinators       June: The 30 Days of Teachers.Net (Introduction) 1 The Gazette 2 The Mailrings 3 Harry Wong 4 Lesson Bank 5 Tech Center 6 Teacher Classifieds 7 State Teachers.Net 8 Live Chat & Meetings 9 Teacher Printables 10 Project Center 11 Chatboard Network 12 Share Teachers.Net 13 Your Feedback 14 Interest Groups 15 Administrators.Net 16 Chat Center 17 Streaming Teacher Video 18 Tutoring Center 19 Academic Grants 20 Teachers.Net Bookshelf 21 Chatboard Tips 22 Grade Levels 23 Staffroom Flyer 24 Teachers.Net Archives 25 Hot Topics 26 Language Arts 27 Subject Areas 28 Quick Links 29 Meet Teachers.Net 30 Summer Job Fair

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