Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.6 No.4

April 2009

	Cover Story by Alfie Kohn
	When “21st-Century Schooling” Just Isn’t Good Enough: A Modest Proposal
Are we serious about educating students for the global competitive economy of the future?
	Earth Day Special Article: GE Project Plant-A-Bulb Give the planet the gift of flowers for Earth Day....
	Harry & Rosemary Wong: Effective Teaching
	The Tools for Success
	Columns
»	Actively Involve Every Reader—Ten Easy Ideas! Sue Gruber
»	Motivating Children Leah Davies
»	Multiple Working Hypotheses Todd R. Nelson
»	Eliciting vs. Punishments Marvin Marshall
»	The Busy Educator's Monthly Five Marjan Glavac
»	Tattle Tales and Classroom Helpers Barbara Pressman
»	Tips for Travel to France or Italy with Students Josette Bonafino
»	Too Much Parent Involvement? Can It Be? Dorothy Rich
»	Return to Sender & The Neon Necklace Rick Morris
»	Be Your Own Mentor: Reflect Hal Portner
	Articles
»	Getting Your Students' Work Published Alan Haskvitz
»	At Risk Students: Victims of Miseducation and Failure Bill Page
»	Teachers – Healing Broken Lives Graysen Walles
»	Get Smart! Doodle! Tim Newlin
»	A Dozen Ways to Build a Caring Classroom Community Susan Fitzell
»	April 2009 Writing Prompts James Wayne
»	Using Photographs To Inspire Writing VI Hank Kellner
»	Quality in School Systems Panamalai R. Guruprasad
»	Problems With 9th Grade Euclidian Geometry Stewart E. Brekke
»	Multisensory/Kinesthetic Alphabet ActivitiesJeanine Horner
	Features
»	Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes Barb Stutesman
»	Today Is... Daily Commemoration Ron Victoria
»	The Lighter Side of Teaching
»	Teacher Blogs Showcase
»	Guided Reading in Kindergarten (printable)
»	Printables - Happy Earth Day, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands, Portable Word Wall, Earth Day Every Day Award, Bringing Choices to Light, and April - May Calendar
»	Photo Tour: 3rd Grade Classroom, Red Creek, NY
»	Lessons, Activities, Theme ideas: Earth Day, Mother’s Day, Paul Revere, Spring, Easter, more!
»	Featured Lesson: Outdoor Activities/Nature
»	Meet Bill Martin Jr. and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Creative Quotes from Shakespeare, Massive Ant Colony Uncovered! AMAZING science!, Tim Hawkins - Cletus Take the Reel, Lovefield, and Dolphin Bubbles: An Amazing Behavior
»	Live on Teachers.Net: April 2009
»	Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers
»	Wisdom for the pain? Why Did You Do It? Why Pursue National Board Certification?

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Earth Day Theme Lessons & Activities – Best on the Web! Seasonal Fun – Spring and Easter Mother’s Day Gifts and Projects! Curriculum - Math, Science, Social Studies Paul Revere Resources Teacher Appreciation Day! Earth Day and Ecology Theme Resources from the Teachers.Net Lesson Plan Bank: Earth Day/Earth Protectors Earth Day in Kindergarten Earth Day compilation Measuring the Earth Earth's Atmosphere How Much Garbage Do We Produce? Rainforest theme Air Pollution Making paper Arbor Day cloze Additional Earth Day & ecology resources Earth Day activities teachers.net/archive/ec032100.html Earth Day & Recycling activities teachers.net/archive/ec032399.html Alternatives to Field Trips teachers.net/archive/ec030700.html Teaching Map Skills teachers.net/archive/ec032800.html Earth/Eco books (annotated list) teachers.net/archive/envirobks.html Going Buggy! Insect theme teachers.net/archive/ec041399.html April Themes teachers.net/archive/ec033099.html Teachers.Net Earth Day/Eco Chatboard at teachers.net/projects/earthday Teachers.Net Earth Day Mailring teachers.net/mailrings April showers rainbow recipe for the classroom teachers.net/gazette/APR02/recipes.html April crafts teachers.net/gazette/APR02/crafts.html Printable Earth Day songs teachers.net/gazette/APR09/printables Seasonal Fun Easter activities were gathered in the March ’09 Teachers.Net Gazette Spring - Activity Day (Pre-School, other) Spring Art Activities (all, Art) Spring Lambs (Pre-School, Art) Mother’s Day Projects Mother's Day Butterfly Art & Poem (EC/Primary) Mother's Day Art Projects (all, Art Curriculum) Mother's Day - Collection of Activities (All, Recipes, Art, Crafts) Curriculum Dice Activity - theoretical vs. experimental (Senior,Mathematics) Word Problem Pen Pals (3-5, Mathematics) Telling time to the hour (Kindergarten,Mathematics) Phases of the Moon (Middle,Science) Fun with Formulas (Senior,Science) From Seed to Plant (Elementary, Science) The American Revolution: A Play (Elementary, Social Studies) Continued on next page » » More Gazette articles... http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm

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