TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE JUNE 2000 Volume 1 Number 4 COVER STORY Harry & Rosemary Wong lend a hand to new teachers preparing for the first time in the classroom. FEATURES Help with Kid Writing Keeping New Teachers Quality & Quantity Time I Teach, Therefore I... Teachers.Net Teachers Do London COLUMNS New at Teachers.Net Effective Teaching by Harry Wong Schoolhouse Views by Beth Bruno 4 Blocks by Cheryl Sigmon Letters to the Editor Archives: Ethan Bronner Chatboard Poll Gatherings on Tap New in the Lesson Bank Upcoming Ed Conferences Humor from the Classroom Help Wanted - Teaching Jobs Live Events Calendar Gazette Back Issues Gazette Home Delivery: Getting and Keeping New Teachers... "Coming out of college I was enthusiastic and probably filled with too much idealism---I couldn’t wait to make a difference. After my first year I was thinking about leaving." These words are from a new teacher and were quoted in the book The First Year of Teaching (Kane, 1991). Not many new teachers are quoted in books as this one was, but almost all experience similar feelings when they enter the classroom for the first time.... Click for Full story Quality & Quantity Time... In my third/fourth grade classroom we just finished reading Alice in Wonderland. One of my students’ favorite chapters was about the Mad Hatter’s tea party. Seated around the table, Alice, the Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse engage in a great deal of non-sensical banter where everyone is talking and no one is actually listening. The characters jump from subject to subject, each with a line of thought that appears to makes sense only to the speaker. Still, Alice leaves the table enriched for having been there, even if she never did actually drink any tea.... Click for Full story

New Column by Harry & Rosemary Wong! Exclusive - Teachers.Net proudly debuts "Effective Teaching," a new monthly column by Harry K. and Rosemary Wong. More than a half-million teachers worldwide have heard their message. Find out why teachers everywhere recommend their work as indispensable reading!   Full story Help with Kid Writing First of two installments Isabell Cardonick, teacher and co-author of Kid Writing. Ms. Cardonick answers questions submitted by our kindergarten and grade one teachers. Full story End of Year Syndrome... Kathleen Carpenter asks the Teachers.Net community, "Do you contribute to the 'end of year syndrome'?" Check out the answers to this month's Chatboard Poll. Full story T-Netters Descend on London Teachers.Net teachers converge London, in the first gathering of T-Netters in the U.K. We get the full scoop from Cath22, and we find out exactly what Skippy! did to get handcuffed by that bobbie.... Full story Also in this issue: Find Out What's New at Teachers.Net Jan Fisher on Getting and Keeping New Teachers Roberta Sargent explores Quality & Quantity Time Cheryl Sigmon's Four Blocks Column Schoolhouse Views by Beth Bruno Chatboard Poll: Do You Contribute to End of Year Syndrome? Melly asks I Teach, Therefore I... Our Own Goose Loses His Mind From the Archives: NY Times Editor Ethan Bronner Featured Lessons from the Lesson Bank Current Teacher Job Listings from around the world Live Meetings & Workshops this month on Teachers.Net The Teachers.Net Gazette is a cooperative publication by the members of the Teachers.Net community. If you would like to submit an article or story for publication, write editor@teachers.net.