This year Teachers.Net will focus upon rallying a corps of retired educators who will read to children on March 3, 2003 in schools, day care centers, and libraries in the U.S. and around the world...

If children are fidgeting with items inside their desks or doodling with their pencils, you do not have their full attention. This classroom-management strategy teaches your students how to pay attention when you say "Time to listen." This is an easy routine to teach your class and it comes in handy when giving directions for taking tests...

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In a recent class visitation, I observed the teacher having great difficulty getting students to behave responsibly. The teacher continually raised her voice commanding the students.

In private, I interviewed a number of students who gave the teacher trouble and asked them the reasons for their irresponsible behavior...

I first started using Microsoft's Word in 1993 when it was version 4.1. I have 'grown up' with the various versions of Microsoft Word; and now we are at version 8 or 9 (I know it has now become versioned by its year of introduction; we have seen Word 97, which was followed by Word 2000...

How can you, the individual teacher, remove the isolation and put much of your professional development within your own control? This article is the first in a series about how to do just that -- and in the process, learn to teach better. Each month's article will offer suggestions and strategies that will help you be proactive in directing your own professional growth...

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According to the Internal Revenue Service, teachers should save their receipts for purchases of books and classroom supplies.

"Many teachers dip into their own pockets when funds for classroom supplies run out before the school year does," said IRS Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti. "A new law gives them a tax break this year and next, and we want them to have the records they'll need to claim it on their returns."...

Printables

This month's offerings;
Cinnamon Bear
Categories Bag Take Home Activity
and
Here's a Little Groundhog...

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Project update
We have just completed two wonderful weeks of port calls and transits around Southeast Australia. We were lucky enough to visit two ports, Sydney in New South Wales, and Hobart, on the island of Tasmania. Both were beautiful and unique in their own ways. Sydney is world renowned after their wildly successful Summer Olympics a couple of years back. The Sydney Opera House and Sydney Bridge are icons that greet the world similar to our Statue of Liberty...