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TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE
Volume 3 Number 11

COVER STORY
A new museum dedicated to exploring the role of visual art in children's literature from around the world will open in Amherst, Massachusetts in November 2002...
COLUMNS
November Columns
ARTICLES
November Articles
REGULAR FEATURES
November Regular Features
FYI
November Informational Items
Gazette Home Delivery:

Also in this issue:

COLUMNS
A Class Size of 500 Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong
Suggestions For Motivation Promoting Learning by Marv Marshall
Stress Relief for Teachers Instant Ideas for Busy Teachers by Barbara Gruber and Sue Gruber
Benefits of Homework Ask the School Psychologist by Beth Bruno
Dealing with the Back Stabbers and Happy Haters The Eclectic Teacher by Ginny Hoover
Sites For Grades 4 to 8 The Busy Educator's Monthly Five (5 Sites for Busy Educators) by Marjan Glavac
Thinking About Your Curriculum 4 Blocks by Cheryl Sigmon
November Postcard from Planet Esme - News from the world of children's books by Esmé Codell
 
FYI
SMORK's Awesome Internet Sites for Kids from: Deanna Phillips
The World’s Largest Lesson - 12 November 2002! from: Charis Kumpula
Cornell News - Removing stains from: Susan S. Lang
Parent resource for the DOE from: Dean Kephart
Nestlé Very Best In Youth - All About RIF - Reading is Fundamental from: Reading is Fundamental
2003 Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program - Three Week Study Visit to Japan from: Jaime McQueen
U.S. History 101: Preserve and Protect from: Hallie Reed
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd): A Guide for Educators from: Gina Hoagland
Volunteer at a Library in Africa or Central America from: The World Library Partnership

The Teachers.Net Gazette is a cooperative publication by and for members of the Teachers.Net community. We accept for consideration brief articles (approximately 350-2500 words) on topics of interest to educators. Articles should be fully edited, spell checked, and ready for publication. Send submissions by e-mail to editor@teachers.net along with a brief biography written in third person. A digital photo (headshot) is desirable but optional. Teachers.Net reserves the right to edit articles accepted for publication.
Kathleen Carpenter - Editor in Chief
Mary Miehl - Technical Editor

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from the Teachers.Net Community
Classroom Photos

Teachers LOVE to look around in other teachers' classrooms so we are showcasing some examples that capture the results of planning, hard work and the organizational skills of members of the Teachers.Net community in a digital photo album.

This month we are featuring the classroom of Alison Taylor, a Richland Elementary 3rd grade teacher in Gibsonia, PA...

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Barb Erickson
Apple Seeds for November

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end. ~ Genghis Khan...

Ron Victoria
Today Is...

November is . . .
International Drum Month,
Peanut Butter Lover's Month,
and
Slaughter Month...

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A Poem for November

The Inward Morning
by
Henry David Thoreau

Packed in my mind lie all the clothes
Which outward nature wears,
And in its fashion's hourly change
It all things else repairs...

from the Teachers.Net Community
Featured Schools

November's Featured Schools are;
Suzanne Middle School,
Loganville K-2 Primary School,
and
Alma Middle School
...

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Goose/TX
Reading, Writing, Zip-Locks, and "The Rest of Us"

During my public school years, if those bumper stickers about a son or daughter being on the honor roll would had been around, my parents wouldn't have had a reason to purchase one on my account...

from the Teachers.Net Community
Classroom Chuckles

Once when I was teaching the "ar" sound I gave examples like car and star. One of my little Texans said "I know one...arn". Because I didn't quite get it, I asked him to use it in a sentence and he said, "My mom arns the clothes."...

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Also in this issue: MORE REGULAR FEATURES

PRINTABLES

ON-SITE INSIGHTS

ARTICLES
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Teaching Children about Native Americans -- How teachers can avoid promoting stereotypes by Diane Tells His Name, Oglala Lakota
Update on Operation Deep Freeze by LT. Marshall Branch and Kathleen Carpenter, Editor in Chief
Education's Rotten Apples by Alfie Kohn
Teacher Classroom Control Means Student Self-Control by Bill Page
Keyboarding: Some Assembly Required by Dr. Rob Reilly
The Music, Movement, and Learning Connection by Hap Palmer
Early Years Are Learning Years -- Mathematics Through Play by Dr. Smita Guha
Shifting the Approach - Middle School Math in American Community School, Abu Dhabi by Sara Turansky
The Hero Within by Don Quimby
Textbook Under Test by P R Guruprasad
Introverted Children in Extroverted Schools by Marti Olsen Laney
Vocabulary Words - Jargon by Jay Davidson
If You Can't You Should, If You Should You Must, If You Must, You Can! by Glenn Dietzel
Peace by Joy Jones
Positive Parent Contact Logs - An invaluable addition to the Teacher's Toolbox by Chuck Brickman
Bits and Pieces - Various Small Articles by The Teachers.Net Community

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