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| Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.6 No.4 |
April 2009 |
| Cover Story by Alfie Kohn |
| When “21st-Century Schooling” Just Isn’t Good Enough: A Modest Proposal
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| Are we serious about educating students for the global competitive economy of the future? |
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| Harry & Rosemary Wong: Effective Teaching |
| The Tools for Success |
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| Columns |
| » | Actively Involve Every Reader—Ten Easy Ideas! Sue Gruber |
| » | Motivating Children Leah Davies |
| » | Multiple Working Hypotheses Todd R. Nelson |
| » | Eliciting vs. Punishments Marvin Marshall |
| » | The Busy Educator's Monthly Five Marjan Glavac |
| » | Tattle Tales and Classroom Helpers Barbara Pressman |
| » | Tips for Travel to France or Italy with Students Josette Bonafino |
| » | Too Much Parent Involvement? Can It Be? Dorothy Rich |
| » | Return to Sender & The Neon Necklace Rick Morris |
| » | Be Your Own Mentor: Reflect Hal Portner |
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| » | Getting Your Students' Work Published Alan Haskvitz |
| » | At Risk Students: Victims of Miseducation and Failure Bill Page |
| » | Teachers – Healing Broken Lives Graysen Walles |
| » | Get Smart! Doodle! Tim Newlin |
| » | A Dozen Ways to Build a Caring Classroom Community Susan Fitzell |
| » | April 2009 Writing Prompts James Wayne |
| » | Using Photographs To Inspire Writing VI Hank Kellner |
| » | Quality in School Systems Panamalai R. Guruprasad |
| » | Problems With 9th Grade Euclidian Geometry Stewart E. Brekke |
| » | Multisensory/Kinesthetic Alphabet ActivitiesJeanine Horner |
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| Features |
| » | Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes Barb Stutesman |
| » | Today Is... Daily Commemoration Ron Victoria |
| » | The Lighter Side of Teaching |
| » | Teacher Blogs Showcase |
| » | Guided Reading in Kindergarten (printable) |
| » | Printables - Happy Earth Day, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands, Portable Word Wall, Earth Day Every Day Award, Bringing Choices to Light, and April - May Calendar |
| » | Photo Tour: 3rd Grade Classroom, Red Creek, NY |
| » | Lessons, Activities, Theme ideas: Earth Day, Mother’s Day, Paul Revere, Spring, Easter, more! |
| » | Featured Lesson: Outdoor Activities/Nature |
| » | Meet Bill Martin Jr. and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Creative Quotes from Shakespeare, Massive Ant Colony Uncovered! AMAZING science!, Tim Hawkins - Cletus Take the Reel, Lovefield, and Dolphin Bubbles: An Amazing Behavior |
| » | Live on Teachers.Net: April 2009 |
| » | Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers |
| » | Wisdom for the pain? Why Did You Do It? Why Pursue National Board Certification? |
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