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The Importance of Culture
What results would you expect if you had over $15 billion to spend to effect change? Each year over $15 billion in Title 1 funds are made available to schools with results that are marginal. Now imagine a skilled teacher/consultant going into a dysfunctional school in the most impoverished school district in all of America with a mission to transform the culture of the school in one year. What would you expect? Success, of course! This is the story of Phoenix Elementary School in Detroit, Michigan, and how money is not the greatest asset of a school; it is its people.
Teaching Online – with Zombies!
By Eric WignallOnline classes suffer from the lack of deep but often unexamined visual cues, prompts, reminders, and social information– everything from the weather outside the windows to campus posters to the social conversations drifting around the space before a teacher starts the class. In an online discussion the student is writing …
“You Just Got a Detention” – What We Call Programs Affects Their Impact
By Chick Moorman and Thomas HallerLet’s end detention and suspension rooms. Let’s help students take a big step toward responsibility by taking the first step ourselves. It’s time to create the Responsibility Room.
The Last Quarter – A Middle School Story
By Teachers.Net News DeskThis came across the News Desk and might be of interest to our readers:
Please consider viewing my website, thelastquarter-book.com. In addition to information about my book The Last Quarter – A Middle School Story, the website contains over 20 good lesson plan ideas for English teachers …
At-Risk Student Credo
By Bill PageDon’t try to change me–you can’t do it. I am the only one who can change me.
Show me, teach me, help me to see what you see. I can change myself.
Helping Children Cope With Worries – From the School Counselor’s File
By Leah DaviesChildren’s worries often interfere with their learning, it is helpful to understand their concerns. School counselor Leah Davies asked 320 third graders to list one or two things they think about when they can not sleep. The results indicate that children today are anxious about the following…
Prophecies for the New Year
By Bill PageI am pleased to proffer some pretty certain classroom prophesies for the 2012, “back-to-school,” new, calendar year.
Alphabet in Nature
By Teachers.Net CommunityAn activity for early literacy learners.
Snow Theme Activities by Karen Cox
By Karen CoxPlace two English muffin halves on a plate, one above the other, like a snowman. Spread cream cheese or white cake icing on the muffins. Add M&M candies or raisins for the eyes and mouth. Add a baby carrot for the nose. Add a piece of a fruit leather strip …
Using Genetics Mini-lectures and Podcasts to Make Time for Active Learning
By Teachers.Net News DeskUsing Genetics Mini-lectures and Podcasts to Make Time for Active Learning [pdf, iTunes]
http://scientificteaching.wisc.edu/materials/molecular/active_learning.htm
The goal of the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching is “to enhance undergraduate biology education by training a new generation of scientific teachers.” The hope is that these future faculty and researchers will also become …
Poor Teaching for Poor Children - in the Name of Reform
By Alfie Kohn
Love them or hate them, the proposals collectively known as "school reform" are mostly top-down policies: divert public money to quasi-private charter schools, pit states against one another in a race for federal education dollars, offer rewards when test scores go up, fire the teachers or close the schools when they don't. Policy makers and the general public have paid much less attention to what happens inside classrooms - the particulars of teaching and learning - especially in low-income neighborhoods. The news here has been discouraging for quite some time, but, in a painfully ironic twist, things seem to be getting worse as a direct result of the "reform" strategies pursued by the Bush administration, then intensified under President Obama, and cheered by corporate executives and journalists.
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At-Risk: Multiple Choice Definitions
By Bill PageTeachers are permitted to flunk kids instead of teaching them; Kids are permitted to flunk subjects instead of learning them.
Shakespeare in the Parlor
By Teachers.Net News DeskShakespeare’s works were quite popular within the United States from the time of the early colonies, but the first illustrated version of the bard’s works did not appear until the …
It’s Not the Kids Who Need to Shut Up
By Bill PageWhether you call it intercourse, conversation, exchange, chat, discussion, interlocution, discourse, communication, or gabbing, it ought to be required in every class.
Spring Concert Ideas
By Teachers.Net CommunityThink Spring! Music teachers share ideas for a Spring Concert.
Coaching the Urban Educator – 5 Simple Ways to Teach Positive Self-Talk
By Andrea ClevelandYou’ve heard me talk about positive self-talk and how it affects us and our students. The question then becomes, how do I actually teach positive self talk to my …
Winter Theme Activities for Young Students
By Teachers.Net Community100th Day, Snow, The Mitten, Penguins, Bears, Grounhog! Lots of great ideas to make your winter themes come alive, making them the most exciting and educational ever!
Teaching Literary Analysis
By Chad DonohueUsing the idea that “every novel in every sentence does something important” teachers can teach students how to talk and write about literature in concrete ways.
A Teacher Looks at Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
By Todd NelsonThe voices of gossip, teasing, exclusivity or indifference plead constantly in our daily walk with classmates and colleagues around the schoolyard. Why does it grow harder to say “That’s not …
Apple Seeds Quotes for Educators
By Barb Stutesman
Every morning, 365 days a year, Barb S./ret. posts a quote on the Teacher Chatboard. In case you missed …
New Book: Safe Spaces: Making Schools and Communities Welcoming to LGBT Youth
By Teachers.Net News DeskRecent studies find that LGBT youth face bullying at a much higher rate than their straight peersand gender conforming peers, and are at increased risk for suicide. Without support, LGBT …
Printables for PreK-12
By Teachers.Net Community
Visit http://teachers.net/gazette/printables.html to access all of the following FREE printables on Teachers.Net!
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Today is… Special Days in January 2012
By Ron VictoriaJanuary is…
National Eye Care Month
National Birth Defect Prevention Month
Volunteer Blood Donor Month
National Hobby Month
National Soup Month
National Hot Tea Month
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