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Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.5 No.3 March 2008 Cover Story by LaVerne Hamlin Show Me The Money!!! If you can develop a lesson plan for your class, then you can write a grant. Here's how! Harry & Rosemary Wong Effective Teaching Coaching is six times more effective than class-size reduction Columns » A System Is Superior To Talent Marv Marshall » What Writing Isn’t Cheryl Sigmon » The Busy Educator's Monthly Five Marjan Glavac » Privacy in a Technological Age Rob Reilly » 10 Tips for Difficult Parents Barbara & Sue Gruber » Problem-Based Learning Hal Portner » Understanding Autism Leah Davies Articles » Spaceship Toilets » March 2008 Writing Prompts » Internet Assisted Interactive Classroom » Our Civility Footprint » First Grade Family Reading Night Meets Speed Dating » Your Students Are Watching, Listening, and Learning » Teachers Lounge - To Go or Not to Go? » Retirement Guide for Teachers » Daily Lessons: Humility Features » Chatboard Poll: So What About Homework? » Teachers.Net Craft Favorite: Arrow to the Sun » Featured Lessons: March 2008 » Video Bytes: Merit Pay; Tai Chi; Asperger's and More » Today Is... Daily Commemoration for March 2008 » Live on Teachers.Net: March 2008 » The Lighter Side of Teaching » Editor's Pick: Picturing America Program » Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes for Teachers » What Do You Want In A Co-Op Teacher? » Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers Advertisement The Teachers.Net Gazette is a collaborative project published by the Teachers.Net community Kathleen Alape Carpenter Editor in Chief Cover Story by LaVerne Hamlin Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong Contributors this month: Dr. Marvin Marshall; Cheryl Sigmon; Barbara & Sue Gruber; Marjan Glavac; Dr. Rob Reilly; Barb S. HS/MI; Ron Victoria; Brian Hill; Leah Davies; Hal Portner; Tim Newlin; Barb Gilman; James Wayne; P.R. Guruprasad; Todd Nelson; Addies Gaines; Pat Hensley; Alan Haskvitz; Joy Jones; 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

Marjan Glavac The Busy Educator Archive | Biography | Resources | Discussion The Busy Educator's Monthly Five: March 2008 by Marjan Glavac Regular contributor to the Gazette March 1, 2008 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. Sign up for his free monthly Busy Educator’s Newsletter at: http://www.thebusyeducator.com IN SEARCH OF THE WAYS OF KNOWING TRAIL BROOKFIELD ZOO http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/pagegen/wok/ways_index.html An immersive adventure in Africa's Ituri Forest--and an encounter with the cultures of the people who live there. Explore the ecology of the rainforest while learning how to see the forest through indigenous eyes. Gorgeous full-screen illustrations and animations bring the forest to life. MUSEUMSPOT.COM http://www.museumspot.com MuseumSpot.com, is a collection of the best museum-related resources on the Web in one user-friendly spot. You can search for museum sites by city, state, country and name and find exhibit dates, virtual collections, offbeat attractions, industry resources and much more. FUN-ATTIC ACTIVITY GUIDE www.funattic.com/games.htm Unique games, physical education lesson plans, and activities for all levels of play, including the disabled. Free great game list, FlingSock Field Manual, activities for families and preschoolers, supply recipes, and a fund-raiser idea page for your next money making event. THE PEN NEWSBLAST http://www.publiceducation.org/newsblast_current.asp The PEN NewsBlast is a free weekly e-mail newsletter available online or by e-mail. It features school reform and school fundraising resources. The PEN NewsBlast is the property of the Public Education Network, a national association of local education funds working to improve public school quality in low-income communities worldwide. MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE http://www.middleschoolscience.com Liz LaRosa, is a former public school teacher, and a private school teacher and now a stay at home mom. She is also a freelance writer for BrainPOP.com . On her site are lesson plans that she has created and used in her science classes as well as links to relevant topics. Everything she has posted is free for any teacher to use. Also included for teachers is a middle school science teachers egroup where science teachers can talk to each other about curriculum or to share ideas and offer support. All the best, Marjan Glavac www.thebusyeducator.com » More Gazette articles... Discussion For This Article: The Busy Educator's Monthly Five/March 2008 Marjan Glavac (March 2008 Gazette) Wow! Marjan Glavac's Monthly Five are GREAT!!, 3/06/08, by Ollie. See All Comments | Add Your Comment 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 Marjan Glavac Columns on Teachers.Net... 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) Related Resources & Discussions on Teachers.Net... 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