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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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| Articles |
| » | 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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The Busy Educator's Monthly Five: April 2009
This month Marjan recommends a wide variety of the best of the web; from English language tutorials to bulletin board ideas; helpful links to funding sources, more!
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by Marjan Glavac
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Each month Marjan Glavac, professional speaker, teacher and co-author of "How To Thrive And Survive In Your Classroom", presents The Busy Educator's Monthly Five -- five websites for educators that are easy to read, simple to use and worthwhile to know about.
Sign up for his free monthly Busy Educator’s Newsletter at:
www.thebusyeducator.com
Here they are, Marjan's Monthly Five picks:
ILOVESCHOOLS.COM
www.iLoveSchools.com
www.iLoveSchools.com has been matching up needy teachers with donors giving equipment, materials, and supplies to help students learn since June, 2003. There are over 95,000 schools in the current database. Any school that wants to list can do so for free. For more information on www.iLoveSchools.com please visit the website!
REAL ENGLISH ONLINE
www.real-english.com
Real English Online Videos guide beginners, intermediates, and more advanced students in a functional/grammatical learning experience Filming of episodes have taken place in New York, Miami Beach, and Seattle. More filming will be taking place in 2009. This ambitious project is excellent for both classes and individuals.
CLASSROOM DISPLAYS AND BULLETIN BOARDS K-8
home.bellsouth.net/personalpages/PWP-bbindex
Looking for a bulletin board idea for back to school or a particular theme, season or month of the year? This is the place to begin your search!
PBS PARENTS: STRUGGLING TO LEARN (PARENTS AND TEACHERS)
www.pbs.org/parents/issuesadvice/strugglingtolearn
This site is designed to give parents and teachers a better understanding of learning processes and potential reading, writing, math and attention difficulties, and specific strategies and resources for responding, as well as the opportunity to hear from a range of learning disability experts. From WGBH, the producers of the television documentary and website Misunderstood Minds.
REACH EVERY CHILD (K-12)
www.reacheverychild.com
Horace Mann and nationally recognized teacher, Alan Haskvitz, developed this site of educational resources for teachers and students. It includes a huge listing of sites for teachers that includes ideas for the start of the school year, handling discipline problems, tips for new teachers, lesson plans to make reaching students and using technology easier.
P.S. To learn more about Marjan Glavac's
The Busy Educator's Newsletter, go to:
www.thebusyeducator.com OR e-mail at:
marjan@glavac.com
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About Marjan Glavac...
Marjan Glavac (BA, BEd, MA) is a professional speaker, teacher and author. He is a full time classroom teacher with 25 years teaching experience. He has taught and continues to teach students from the inner city, students with emotional/behavioral disorders, ESL, and IEP students. He is an international speaker and workshop presenter.
Marjan is the author of 3 books: The Busy Educator’s Guide To The World Wide Web 1st Edition, and 2nd Edition, and How To Make A Difference: Inspiring Students To Do Their Best, the creator of one of the Internet’s longest running free teacher monthly newsletters: The Busy Educator’s Newsletter (1998) and co-author of "How To Thrive And Survive In Your Classroom".
Since 1993, Marjan has been involved in dozens of telecommunications projects involving students from K-University on every continent of the world. His K-8 students have also participated in e-mail, travel buddy, research projects and polishing mirrors for the NASA Starshine project. He and his classes have been filmed by TVO and Global's Kids-TV; featured in all local media - newspapers, TV, radio, as well as nationally in Reader's Digest, Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, Today's Parent, Home and Educational Computing and internationally on WGN and NPR radio, websites and dozens of student newspapers worldwide.
Marjan is currently a gr.6 home room teacher at Wilfrid Jury Public School in London, Ontario, Canada where he resides with his wife and two children. For more information about Marjan Glavac, his books, keynotes, training and seminars, visit him at his site at http://www.thebusyeducator.com
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Marjan Glavac Columns on Teachers.Net...
- Marilyn Western's Technology Tips For Classroom Teachers, Interactive Activities For French/Spanish/German/Welsh Teachers And Learners, Deafblind Info: Minnesota's Deafblindness Resource, Thinkport (Teachers And Parents), and The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art "Collections Online" (June 09)
- College Prep Physics, Ap Physics B, The Art Window (Gr. 4-12), World History And Geography (Gr. 9-12), and The Thoreau Reader (Teachers) (May 09)
- Iloveschools.Com, Real English Online, Classroom Displays And Bulletin Boards K-8, Pbs Parents: Struggling To Learn (Parents And Teachers), Reach Every Child (K-12) (Apr. 09)
- Ultrabug Cliposcope, World Myths & Legends In Art Minneapolis Institute Of Arts, The Tree: A Graphic Organizer For Expository Paragraphs And Summaries, Trading Around The World, and Where In The World And What In The World Is Money? (Mar. 09)
- The Artist's Toolkit: Visual Elements And Principles, The Fin, Fur And Feather Bureau Of Investigation, Calliope, Muse Of Eloquence, Teachers Without Borders, Shedd Educational Adventures (Sea) John G. Shedd Aquarium (Feb. 09)
- Brainsarefun, Ariel's Homepage, Scott L. Waldman's Technology Workshop, Learn To Write...Free Tracing Paper, Marie's Free Spelling Course (Jan. 09)
- Make hand washing fun & effectiveness; Native American arts exhibit online; The Teacher List; English for Spanish speakers; Test your brain with an online police artist drawing device (Dec. 08)
- Literacy Volunteer Connection, Computer Science & Business Education Site, How Stuff Works, Postcards From America, Monetary Mania Social Studies Web Adventure (Nov. 08)
- www Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources, Biomedia, Schoolweb.se, Anacleta's Spanish & World Language/Culture Links, Behind The Name (Oct. 08)
- Addressing learning difficulties; Teacher resource; All things Science; Games and writing skills help; Secondary level English lesson plans (Sept. 08)
- Speaking Of Speech.Com, Flying Turtle Science And Technology Exploring, and more (Aug. 08)
- Human Space Flight, Genetic Science Learning Center, and more (July 08)
- web-based Ghost Towns, games, topical tutorials, and more (May 08)
- Writing, Genealogy, Soil, and more (April 08)
- Miscellaneous Sites (Mar. 08)
- Art Sites (Feb. 08)
- Miscellaneous Sites (Jan. 08)
- Back to School Sites (Aug. 03)
- Language Arts Sites Part 3 (July 03)
- Language Arts Sites Part 2 (June 03)
- Language Arts Sites Part 1 (May 03)
- English As a Second Language (ESL) Sites (Apr. 03)
- Art Sites (Mar. 03)
- College and University Sites (Feb. 03)
- Sites for School Principals and High School Teachers (Jan. 03)
- Sites For Grades 7 to 8 (Dec. 02)
- Sites For Grades 4 to 8 (Nov. 02)
- Primary Sites Grades Pre-K to 3 (Oct. 02)
- Primary Sites Grades Pre-K to 3 (Sept. 02)
- Back to School (Aug. 02)
- Sites For Beginning Teachers Part 2 (Jult 02)
- Sites For Beginning Teachers Part 1 (June 02)
- Theme Sites Part 2 (May 02)
- Theme Sites Part 1 (Apr. 02)
- Lesson Planning Sites Part 6 (Mar. 02)
- Lesson Planning Sites Part 5 (Feb. 02)
- Lesson Planning Sites Part 4 (Jan. 02)
- Lesson Planning Sites Part 3 (Dec. 01)
- Five For Lesson Planning (pt 2) (Nov. 01)
- Five For Lesson Planning (Sept. 01)
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