Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.5 No.9

September 2008

	Cover Story by Hal Portner
	High Quality Teaching: The Intangible Element
	The cornerstone of quality education in our schools is what happens between teacher and student.
	Harry & Rosemary Wong: Effective Teaching
	It Was Something Close to a Miracle
	Columns
»	More Tools for Classroom Fun and SuccessCheryl Sigmon
»	Time Flies!Sue Gruber
»	"Getting to Know Each Other"Activities, part 2Leah Davies
»	Our Back PagesTodd R. Nelson
»	Using a Butterfly Analogy to Explain the Hierarchy of Social DevelopmentMarvin Marshall
»	The Busy Educator's Monthly FiveMarjan Glavac
»	Dear Barbara - Advice for SubsBarbara Pressman
»	The First Day of Hell? and Still No Job! How Do I Stay Positive?Kioni Carter
	Articles
»	The Music, Movement, and Learning Connection
»	Notes And Quotes From My Summer Reading
»	Chinese Royalty and Cedar Wood, The History of the Pencil
»	Teaching and Stress: Symptoms and Cures
»	September 2008 Writing Prompts
»	Learning About Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
»	Donna’s Lesson Plan Files For Music Teachers
»	A Teaching Guide for The Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel
»	Virtual lab
	Features
»	Printable Worksheets & Teaching Aids
»	Ineffective teachers? and Laura Bush's speech on July 28
»	School Photographs for September 2008
»	Lessons, Resources and Theme Activities: September 2008
»	Video Bytes: Brainiac science; Puppies lulled to sleep; Pilobilus dance; and More
»	Today Is... Daily Commemoration for September 2008
»	Live on Teachers.Net: September 2008
»	The Lighter Side of Teaching
»	Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes for Teachers
»	Peanut Free School?
»	HELP! First Time Teaching Kindergarten!
»	"I don't have a pencil [again]!" Does anything work?
»	Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers

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Brainiac science; Puppies lulled to sleep; Pilobilus dance; Power teaching demo; Kids talk about their food allergies; Music classroom tour. Neat stuff! Explosions and science from UK Sky One series Brainiac Let's See the Dog Whisperer Do This! Amazing Pilobolus Dance Power Teaching Kids Living With Food Allergies Music Classroom Tour

by Kathleen Alape Carpenter Regular Feature for the Gazette September 1, 2008

Zodea was kind enough to submit this Brainiac science video, saying: "I really like Brainiac's Alkali metals video. It shows the increasing reactivity as you go down the periodic table. Evidently the video is somewhat faked when they did Rubidum and Cesium but it still gets the point across." Explosions and science from UK Sky One series Brainiac. (3:16) www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55kgyApYrY Let's See the Dog Whisperer Do This! Maybe this man should work with kids, too! (1:40) uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jCnAjel02lM Tom Houston recommends this video: Amazing Pilobolus Dance (3:08) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n8gxEwLx0w Demonstration of a critical thinking exercise using "Power Teaching" in a fourth grade classroom. (9:03) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTwjFHorQhk Kids Living With Food Allergies A film of food allergic children produced for general audiences by www.faiusa.org (5:53) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzyLv2IKoGA Music Classroom Tour Music Centers, behavior management, more, shown in a tour of Mrs. C's elementary music classroom. (2:33) www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdpTB8dpbvE Please send your favorite YouTube videos to kathleen@teachers.net. We'll consider all submissions for future Video Bytes! » More Gazette articles... http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm

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