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Teachers Are the Difference
Now in her sixth year of teaching, Melissa Dunbar has helped her students achieve a pass rate of between 92% - 99% over the years, with her ESL and Economically Disadvantaged students achieving a 100% pass rate this past school year!
Changing Grade Levels – Make the Transition a Smooth One!
By Sue GruberChanging grade levels can be a huge challenge. There’s no doubt about it—change is hard. Even if you are the one who initiated the change, it can be stressful….
What Can Teachers Really Be Accountable For?
By Dorothy RichWith so much current pressure about teacher accountability, it’s vital for teachers to ask ourselves: What can we really be accountable for?
A Month of Writing Prompts
By James WayneAround the globe and all through history, there’s a prompt of interest to everyone!
Standarized Testing Alternative
By Robert RoseWould you hire a person to educate the students in your town if he told you 20% would fail or be below average and another 60% would be average?
Changing Society: Why Teachers Need to Embrace Technology
By Guy WeaverToday’s world is inundated with technology. Students of this generation zip and zoom through the World Wide Web. They have embraced a new era, The Digital Age. Students of this …
Turn “Busy Work” into Real Instruction & Make Directions “Stick”
By Barbara PressmanAdvice for Substitute Teachers:
How can I avoid “busy work”?
Please help me find a way to avoid being a “baby sitter”!
Beyond Book Reports
By Jean DomanskiIf you sense that your students dislike writing book reports, but you believe that a comprehension exercise is beneficial, there are several routes you can take. One is the story …
Stakeholder Perception In Child-Friendly Schools
By PR GuruprasadAs many national governments focus on Child Friendly School policies, this article addresses two issues: How can we tell whether a school is child friendly or not? If it is …
The Effectiveness of Discipline Without Stress
By Marvin MarshallThe Raise Responsibility System is so easy to implement. This article is a positive example of the benefits of implementing the Discipline Without Stress program…
Summer is a Raft
By Todd NelsonDip your toes in the current of languor and drifting—the current of creativity and imagination.
Top Stories
American Educational Disease: Its Cure through Voucher Schools
By L SwilleyThe public school systems of this country have become gradually, inevitably poorer because those who should be responsible in the front- lines of education have, without a whimper, surrendered that responsibility to those in ever more remote camps: the teacher denies his/her responsibility, saying that the principal is the problem; the principal denies his/hers, pointing to the superintendent; the superintendent points to the school board; the school board to the state agency, and the state agency protests helplessness, pointing to federal mandates. Finally no PERSON holds himself or herself accountable and we all stand around wringing our hands, while responsibility and authority for our schools are increasingly delivered without protest or question – and in the name of “respect for the law” – apparently into the hands of a sub-committee of clowns, yawning dyspeptic clerks in the backwaters of the U.S. Education Agency.
From the Teachers.Net Community
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- Lessons & Resources for Back to School!
- Apple Seeds (July 2009)
- Design a Hawaiian Quilt Block
- Summer Garden Recipes
Bonus Box
By Rick MorrisThe Bonus Box is a simple classroom activity for encouraging your students to face the challenge of mathematics during their spare time. The puzzles presented–sounds better than problems presented, doesn’t it?–are such that they can be completed in less than ten minutes. By allowing your students the opportunity to focus on just a single aspect of math for a brief period of time, you will encourage them to master critical math skills in a manageable way.
Helping Children Cope with School Transitions
By Leah DaviesTransitions for some students result in academic difficulties, social/emotional problems, decline in self-concept, poor motivation, decreased attendance, and increased dropout rates. Since schools are charged with helping children become well-adjusted citizens, school personnel have an important role in assisting students’ adaptation to change…
Choosing the Right Student Travel Company & Applying for a Passport
By Josette BonafinoI’m about to plan my first educational trip but am concerned about getting stuck with the wrong company. Do you have any selection tips?
The Busy Educator’s Monthly Five
By Marjan GlavacEach 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.
How Smart Are You?
By Tim NewlinSometimes brain-teasers can help determine a person’s profession. The ability to crack codes and secret messages or to program encryption of data is needed more and more these days….
Middle School Brains: Teaching the Distracted
By Alan HaskvitzThe middle school years are very interesting in that students are making that difficult transition into adulthood while still being confined and confused by their minds and bodies. These easily distracted students are all the more difficult to reach because their brains are allegedly going through a brain spurt and they are also dealing with the onslaught of puberty….
The New School Year Brings Some Hard Questions With a Fresh New Start—and Definitive Answers
By Bill PageTeachers have been successful in school, sufficiently successful to have graduated from college. But students who struggle, are not successful, and who fail will have a different perspective and …
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