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TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE

Volume 4 Number 4

COVER STORY
No matter how many hundred of millions of dollars are spent, school reform initiatives will continue to produce unsatisfying results until we unflinchingly address the critical problem of teacher quality.
We're Still Leaving the Teachers Behind...

ARTICLES

We're Still Leaving the Teachers Behind by Vivian Troen & Katherine C. Boles

Bureaucrat's Field of Dreams: If You Test Them They Will Learn -- A Rousing, Rip-Roaring,Raving Rant by Bill Page

That's My Job! Promoting Responsibility in the Preschool Classroom by Mary E. Maurer

War Impacts Preschool Students -- Current events and behavior changes from the Teachers.Net Early Childhood Chatboard

TEAPOT Word Game - What Every Teacher Should Know! by Catherine Schandl

How To Use Anchoring for Accelerated Learning by Stelios Perdios

An Art Historian on Children in the Museum by Erick Wilberding

China ESL, An Industry Run Amuck? by Niu Qiang & Martin Wolff

Editor's epicks for April by Kathleen Alape Carpenter

Egg Hatching - A PowerPoint Presentation by Mechele Ussery

Direction for Teachers of Creative Writing by Dan Lukiv

Tutorial - High Frequency Words (for students who struggle) from the Teachers.Net Chatboard

Vocabulary Activities by Lisa Indiana 2-3

April Columns

April Regular Features

April Informational Items

Gazette Home Delivery:

Editor's Feature...

Editor's epicks for April

by Kathleen Alape Carpenter

From the Archives:

Earth Day activities
http://teachers.net/archive/ec032100.html

Earth Day & Recycling activities
http://teachers.net/archive/ec032399.html

Alternatives to Field Trips
http://teachers.net/archive/ec030700.html

Teaching Map Skills
http://teachers.net/archive/ec032800.html

Earth/Eco books (annotated list)
http://teachers.net/archive/envirobks.html

Going Buggy! Insect theme
http://teachers.net/archive/ec041399.html

April Themes
http://teachers.net/archive/ec033099.html

Supporting Families in Crisis
http://teachers.net/archive/ec011999.html

Helping the ESL Student in Your Elem./Middle Classroom
http://teachers.net/archive/
elem_ms061699.html

Disarming Bullies
http://teachers.net/archive/
taking_the_bully012501.html

The End of Homework
http://teachers.net/archive/
kralovec111500.html

Looping
http://teachers.net/archive/
looping060700.html

School Legal Issues
http://teachers.net/archive/law060600.html

Running on Ritalin
http://teachers.net/archive/docdiller.html

From the Teachers.Net Lessons Bank:

Earth Day/Earth Protectors
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/281.html

Earth Day
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/404.html

Earth Day compilation
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/1225.html

Measuring the Earth
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/1824.html

Earth's Atmosphere
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/1437.html

Rainforest theme
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/405.html

Air Pollution
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/2823.html

Ecology/Garbage plants
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/1097.html

Making paper
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/1088.html

Arbor Day cloze
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/2273.html

Learn About War Through Personal Stories
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/1901.html

Papier Mache Easter Basket
http://www.teachers.net/lessons
/posts/1657.html

Teachers.Net Resources

Teachers.Net Earth Day/Eco Chatboard at
http://teachers.net/projects/earthday

Patriotic Flag Cracker recipe
http://teachers.net/gazette/FEB02
/recipes.html

April showers rainbow recipe for the classroom
http://teachers.net/gazette/APR02
/recipes.html

April crafts
http://teachers.net/gazette/APR02
/crafts.html

Other Helpful Sites:

National Center for Children Exposed to Violence
http://www.nccev.org

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency free materials
http://www.epa.gov

National Arbor Day Foundation
http://www.arborday.org/index1.html

May Day traditions
http://geocities.com/Athens/
Delphi/2453/may_day.html

Celebrating May Day
http://www.umkc.edu/imc/mayday.htm

Construct a May Pole
http://www.allspecies.org/bbs1
/messages/270.htm


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