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Learning Objectives: The Heart of Every Lesson
For lessons to come to life in the classroom, they must emanate from the heart. Philadelphia consulting teacher Michelle Shields believes Learning Objectives are the heart of every lesson. They give a purpose to learning. They are the foundations for lesson planning. Objectives provide the criteria for evaluating student achievement....
Leprechauns, Baseball, Spring, Ladybugs – More Lessons, Activities
By Teachers.Net Resources
Lessons, crafts, activities for Spring themes…and a printable ladybug!
Teaching the Difference Between Tattling and Reporting
By Susan Fitzell
Student learning time increases when children understand the difference between tattling and reporting. Yet, children’s observations can help teachers know what is happening when they are not present or when their attention is elsewhere. Allowing students an opportunity to share their serious concerns is a necessary component of a positive …
At-Risk Kids: Cramming Curriculum Down Kids’ Throats
By Bill PageYou can lead kids to curriculum, but you Can’t make ‘em regurgitate.
Four Common Ways to Manage Behavior
By Betsy Weigle
Students learn more effectively when you get classroom management right; kids benefit, and teaching won’t wear you out. A teacher can approach classroom management in four different ways…
Great Quotes About Teaching: Motivation and Humor
By Alan HaskvitzThere are easily as many good teacher quotes as there are educators, and that’s as it should be as every instructor creates their own legacy. Compiled here are some of the best quotes that provide both inspiration and insight into what has always been a demanding job.
Advice for Subs – “This is stupid!”
By Barbara PressmanEach time I gave an assignment he decided that it was “stupid.”
The Blueberry Story: Teacher Gives Businessman a Lesson
By Jamie Robert VollmerI stood before an auditorium filled with outraged teachers who were becoming angrier by the minute. My speech had entirely consumed their precious 90 minutes of inservice. Their initial icy glares had turned to restless agitation. You could cut the hostility with a knife.
28 Tips: Educator`s Guide to Active Listening
By Leah DaviesWhen children sense that they are an accepted part of a school community, they are more motivated to learn. How to help students feel valued and connected to the adults in their school, and enhance mutual understanding.
You Don’t Get To Choose Your Mother OR Your Teacher
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I know of only two ways I can change anyone’s behavior – my kids, your kids, my students, my wife, relatives, neighbors, criminals—and one of them doesn’t work.
Advice for Subs: How to Keep Students Quiet and Listening
By Barbara PressmanHow to get students to remain quiet long enough for the Sub to give directions.
Mentoring – How Do I Start?
I am an African-American male substitute in a medium-sized district with a variety of schools, ranging from poor to middle-class, with varying percentages of African-American students. How do I go about trying to mentor these students about attitudes toward life, academic success, behavior, etc.? I just wonder, as I would …
Codetalking – Classroom Management by the Numbers
By Humorist John P. Wood
I say the same things to my students so many times on any given day that they know exactly what I am going to say before the first syllable is out of my mouth. So why even bother with the whole statement? Why not save my breath?
Teach Ag Day Focuses on Need for Agricultural Educators
Agricultural educators are in short supply in the United States.
2700 Digitized Children’s Books – FREE Access
A treasure trove of more than 2700 digitized children’s books from as early as 1806. Includes McGuffey’s eclectic primer (c1909).
Links & Likes
Links and Likes for March! New links and likes are added throughout each week, so check back often. OR, sign up for a Teachers.Net mailring and you will receive updates delivered right to your computer’s email box!
National History Day – California State Competition Now Open for Entries
Innovative Program Brings History Alive for Some 44,000 Students in Calif
SlimeKids – School Library Media Kids
Packed with book trailers, language arts-related games and much more, this new resource functions as a portal through which students can access educational tools and literacy-related resources. Students can play language arts games, use search engines, read book reviews, watch book trailers, visit author websites, and check reference works in …
Tiger Mother, David Brooks, Mud and Snow
By Todd Nelson
At my little school we love our mud and snow. It is the spectacular raw material of some very significant daily experimenting and learning. It's a standard and benchmark in the Uber curriculum. Mud and snow are practically special subject all their own, the coin of play, engineering, even commerce. They inspire public works projects, nature tracking, and just plain squelchy, sticky pleasure. They too are building blocks, from pre-school through sixth grade....
From the Teachers.Net Community
- Preschool Teachers 3/28/11 Chat Transcript
- Lesson for Teachers: Why Elephants Protect Each Others’ Calves or What Loss of Union Representation Can Mean
- Retirement in Twilight Zone + 4 More Sites for Busy Teachers
- Codetalking – Classroom Management by the Numbers
- SlimeKids – School Library Media Kids
- Advice for Subs: How to Keep Students Quiet and Listening
- Substitute Teaching A – Z
- Leprechauns, Baseball, Spring, Ladybugs – More Lessons, Activities
- Printables for PreK – 12 Teachers
- March Is…Special!
- National History Day – California State Competition Now Open for Entries
- Advice for Subs – “This is stupid!”
- When Your Words Come Back At You
- 2700 Digitized Children’s Books – FREE Access
- Agropolis Museum: Food and Agricultures of the World
- Using a Laminator in the Classroom
- How to Introduce a Story to Build Retelling Skills
- Links & Likes
- Apple Seeds – Quotes for Educators
- Teach Ag Day Focuses on Need for Agricultural Educators
- Tips for Teachers Starting Out (or Struggling)
- Mentoring – How Do I Start?
March Wind Science – Karen’s PreK Page
By Karen Cox
When March comes in like a lion, seize the opportunity to have some science fun with the wind!
How to Introduce a Story to Build Retelling Skills
By Teachers.Net Community
For children to be able to retell a story accurately, they need to KNOW the story. They need to “own” it. These are all things you can do in your …
Retirement in Twilight Zone + 4 More Sites for Busy Teachers
By Marjan Glavac
Professor Ellis Fowler is a teacher who has taught for 51 years. The board of trustees has sent him a letter of retirement. He contemplates his teaching career and comes …
The Problem with Music Advocacy
By Sharon Burch
Have we, as an interested group in music education, damaged our own efforts simply by labeling it as “music advocacy?” I, along with many music educators, am very thankful for …
Writing Prompts for March
By James WayneWhy did the US Government buy a herd of camels? What did Dennis the Menace and Albert Einstein have in common? Whose brain set a record for the smallest brain …
HomoPHONEs – Make “Phone” Storage from Envelope
By Heidi Samuelson
A clever way to reinforce the concept and store homophones!
Using a Laminator in the Classroom
By Teachers.Net News Desk
How preschool and elementary school teachers can utilize a thermal laminator machine to enhance, create and protect learning aids and artwork.
Teacher Job Opportunities – Don’t Rule Out Private Schools Just Because You Didn’t Attend One
By Betsy Weigle
School system differences provide opportunities for teachers who need jobs during tough economic times. Private schools are sometimes overlooked as an option for new graduates since many had no experience …
Tips for Teachers Starting Out (or Struggling)
By Teachers.Net Community
From the Classroom Management Chatboard, few thoughts for those starting out – or shaping up – in the teaching profession.
When Your Words Come Back At You
By Teachers.Net CommunitySo…all year I’ve been working on my students learning to help each other, not by telling answers, but instead giving each other clues… This morning while doing SOTD…
Apple Seeds – Quotes for Educators
By Barb Stutesman
Apple Seeds posted on the Teacher Chatboard during February 2011
02-01: The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ~ Paul E. …
Agropolis Museum: Food and Agricultures of the World
By Teachers.Net News Desk
Discover the astounding itinerary of the world’s foods from the field to the dish. Compare their nutritional functions, histories, production, transformation, consumption, and the cultural traditions they are attached to. …
Substitute Teaching A – Z
By Teachers.Net Resources“When I feel confident, the classes seem to respond to me positively. How can I be sure that my first impression is the one that I want?” asks a Substitute …
Printables for PreK – 12 Teachers
By Teachers.Net Resources
Happy Earth Day decorated song sheet for Earth Day, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle decorated song sheet for Earth Day, We’ve Got the Whole World In Our Hands – Earth Day song …
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