The 100th Day of School...
by Jay Davidson
I don't know how or where they got started, but it is meritorious for several reasons...
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100th Day Activities Collected from Teachers.Net Forums...
by Kathleen Carpenter, Editor
A collection of 100th Day activities for the classroom...
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Teaching Gayle to Read (Part 3)...
by Grace Vyduna-Haskins
Gayle is gaining confidence in her reading of connected text...
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Technology Integration Has No Hope of Succeeding...
by Rob Reilly Ed.D.
The critical factor here is that the issue is NOT technology, the issue IS curriculum...
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Children and Stress
by Brian Hill M.A.
Put simply, stress triggers off our fight or flight response, a reactive, automatic defence mechanism...
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Infuse Test Preparation With Life-long Learning
by Lanny Sorenson
Progressive theory and development, more than not, validates what good teachers are already doing...
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Children Do Grieve
by Lori Worline
What may seem normal or abnormal to us may be quite the opposite or at least very different for children...
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Technophobia to Technophilia
by Dr. Mary Ann Bell
In an effort to learn what prompts people to change their attitudes about technology, I posted queries to several on-line message groups...
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The Role of EFL learners' Heterogeneity in Terms of Age in Their Use of Communication Strategies
by Yahya Ghelichli
Communicative language teaching builds on the understanding that language use is governed not only by phonological and grammatical rules, but also by sociolinguistic and discourse rules...
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From "I Don't Care" to "I Did It!"
by Sandy/PA
"I can't read, but I don't care."...
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Planetary Society Offers New Scholarships...
by Susan Lendroth
The Society will award two Planetary Society Scholarship for Space Studies each year for the next five years
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Arecibo Radar Gets 11th-Hour Reprieve
from Sky and Telescope Magazine
The central issue revolves around the fact that the Arecibo program has become part of NASA's effort to find and catalog potentially hazardous near-Earth objects...
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Harry & Rosemary Wong:
A Stress Free Teacher
Administrators, teachers, and parents have often wondered what's Liz's "secret" recipe for success with her students...
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Troubleshooting
in the Words Block at Upper Grades
by Cheryl M. Sigmon
I think teachers need to think, though, about why they're testing and how they're testing...
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How to Achieve 100 Per Cent Student Participation
by Dr. Marvin Marshall
If a student rarely finds himself in the winner's circle, then competitive approaches kill the drive for learning...
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Television--Don't Trash It--Control It...
by Jim Trelease
There's never been a single TV set that caused brain damage or committed a crime...
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Are Private Schools Better?
by Beth Bruno
Tuition payments do not necessarily buy your child a better education...
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Online Teaching Strategies Transferred to Traditional Classes
by Leslie Bowman
There are subject with the special education teacher in charge of your many state-supported virtual high schools...
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Teachers.Net Signs Up for Seussational Reading Excitement NEA's Read Across America: Too Much Reading Fun for Just One Day!
by Kathleen Carpenter, Editor
Honorary Chairman Garth Brooks is at the helm of the 2002 celebration and expects to help inspire even more than the 35 million readers, young and old, who were found in the company of a book last March 2...
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Working with the At Risk Continued!
by Ginny Hoover
If they decided not to act properly I would start making calls with my phone list in hand...
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Lesson Planning Sites Part 5...
by Marjan Glavac
Another set of five websites to help Busy Educators with their lesson planning...
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Around the Block With Gail Gibbons
by Bridget Scofinsky
She has a 300 acre home in Vermont and she also owns a home on an island near the island of the puffins she wrote about...
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Ask the Literacy Teacher
by Leigh Hall
This month;
Students' Self Measurement & Helping Second Language Learners...
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Active Participation Exercises - Ways to Sensitize Your Students to the Needs of Sight Impaired Peers
by Dave Melanson
Here are some helpful exercises you may wish to try with your students...
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Remediation Doesn't Work
by Bill Page
My own experience has been that you must first change their attitude, before you can teach them...
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Top Ten
by YENDOR
Top Ten Rejected Field Day Activities
10. Catch the greased administrator...
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Exceptional Normalcy
by Goose/TX
The chain reaction of the circumstances that provided me the inspiration for this article began behind my house...
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Behavior Management Tips
by Jan Zeiger
Be fair and consistent at all times. Make your expectations for behavior clear...
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Handy Teacher Recipes
by The Teachers.Net Community
Graham Cracker Flag
1. Get one long graham cracker and put it on a paper plate...
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Classroom Crafts
by The Teachers.Net Community
A Cat in the Hat Pin for Read Across America Day
Made from one jig saw puzzle piece...
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Stress
by Joy Jones
"The stress comes from us being out of alignment with our own lives"...
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Cooperative Learning
by Jay Davidson
Cooperation is a significant way to include those students who have been alienated and isolated, both in and out of schools...
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Quantity over Quality--The Problem with Writing Instruction in Our Schools
by Susan L. Lipson
Excessive quantification of written words diminishes the quality of both the writing and the writing experience...
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