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Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.6 No.5 May 2009

Cover Story by Matt Levinson
Schools and Facebook: Moving Too Fast,
or Not Fast Enough?
Schools can draw a line in the sand, with zero tolerance rules written into school handbooks, or they can shift with the changing sands of social networking and utilize social networking and Facebook to enhance teaching and learning.


Harry & Rosemary Wong: Effective Teaching
Teachers Are the Greatest Assets
On the first day of school, the teacher across the hall commented to me that my students are "always so good!" It's not the students; it's the procedures that have proven to work. The First Days of School helps me to manage my class, so that I can be an effective teacher.


Columns
»Comedy Highlights from Room K-1! Sue Gruber
»What Will Your Students Remember? Leah Davies
»My Mrs. Krikorian Todd R. Nelson
»Discipline Is a Liberating Word Marvin Marshall
»The Busy Educator's Monthly Five Marjan Glavac
»Help! Too Much Talk! Not Enough Work! Barbara Pressman
»Mayan Sites and Paris Easy on the Purse Josette Bonafino
»The Little Things that Count in Our Schools: Doing Something Different, Simple and Powerful Cheryl Sigmon
»Teacher Morale Matters Dorothy Rich
»Team Management - It’s in the Cards Rick Morris
»Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century Hal Portner

Articles
»The Document Camera: A Better Way to Present! Joe Frisk
»Need a Teaching Job? Here’s Where to Find One Alan Haskvitz
»Make Twitter an Ally in the Classroom! Alan Haskvitz
»Teaching Is... Bill Page
»Celebrating True Heroes Graysen Walles
»Digital Pens & Touch-Screens Tim Newlin
»12 Ways to Improve and Enhance Your Paraprofessional- Teacher Experience Susan Fitzell
»May 2009 Writing Prompts James Wayne
»Using Photographs To Inspire Writing VII Hank Kellner
»How to Increase the Number of Physics and Chemistry Majors Stewart E. Brekke
»Bibliotherapy Booklist for Elementary Students Lisa Bundrick
»8 Ways to Make Math Magical at School Steve Sherman
»5 Brainteasers Steve Sherman
»What Will You Do For Shy Kids? Marjie Braun Knudsen

Features
»Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes Barb Stutesman
»Today Is... Daily Commemoration Ron Victoria
»The Lighter Side of Teaching
»Photo Tour: 3rd Grade Classroom
»Teacher Blogs Showcase
»Carol Goodrow's Kids Running Printables
»Dolch word activities, end of first grade test, first grade memory book, map and geography lessons for all levels, IEP progress, and graduation ceremonies songs
»Video Bytes; Are You Going to Finish Strong?, Antarctica, Ted Talks - Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?, How Big Is Will?, The Sling Shot Man, Styrofoam Cup vs. Deep Sea
»Live on Teachers.Net: May 2009
»New Teacher Induction Programs
»Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers


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Teacher News, Events, & Opportunities
From the News Desk
May 1, 2009

This extremely popular topic chatboard complements our monthly column by resident classroom management expert Harry & Rosemary Wong. Visit the Classroom Management Chatboard and share your secrets for maintaining order in the most trying of conditions. If you are a new teacher, you'll find this resource, and especially Harry Wong's Gazette columns, are an invaluable tool in your teaching collection. For support directly to your email inbox, subscribe to the Classroom Management mailring http://teachers.net/mailrings.

New book: Winds Of Gold
by Jessa Lee Scott (pseudonym)

Veteran T-Netter “sunnie” announces:

“My novel is published! Great summer read!”

Historical romance/mystery based on the true Legend of Beale's Treasure (Bedford VA).

From antebellum Richmond to the Santa Fe Trail, Kyndra and mysterious Tyler Andrews are entangled in danger, adventure, and passion as they search for Kyndra’s brother and a fortune in gold, silver, and jewels. Knowing that Tyler must return to Texas and Kyndra will return to her beloved, inherited Faircliffe Plantation, their love seems doomed from the start. Yet as the clues draw them ever deeper into the mystery of Beale’s Treasure, their passion cannot be denied. The treasure may be lost forever but will Kyndra and Tyler be lost to each other forever or is their love strong enough to keep them together?

Jessa Lee Scott is the pen name for mother-daughter writers from Richmond, VA.. Lee is the author of Self Defense for Survival, as well as articles and contributions to books about distance learning.

Free Materials from Teaching Tolerance
www.tolerance.org/teach/resources/index.jsp

Kits & Handbooks, DVDs, Coloring books, much more.

Teaching Tolerance's educational kits and subscriptions to its magazine are FREE to: classroom teachers, school librarians, school counselors, school administrators, professors of education, leaders of homeschool networks, youth directors at houses of worship and employees of youth-serving nonprofit organizations.

Acadia Partners for Science and Learning offers Advanced Placement Summer Institutes on the Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) campus in Acadia National Park. The park provides a unique setting for intense work with other teachers and institute instructors. Accommodations for participating teachers and their families on the SERC campus at Schoodic Point, surrounded by spruce and fir forests and the Atlantic Ocean. Summer 2009 offerings include AP summer institutes in biology, environmental science, calculus, and statistics.

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