Hello, As a very experienced teacher of History, English, RS, Geography, Business Studies and Media Studies, (it was originally just History but it seems like I have now taught everything!!) over the years I have made a log of every new lesson activity that I have ever used and developed. I have found this log to...See MoreHello, As a very experienced teacher of History, English, RS, Geography, Business Studies and Media Studies, (it was originally just History but it seems like I have now taught everything!!) over the years I have made a log of every new lesson activity that I have ever used and developed. I have found this log to be extremely useful as before I plan a lesson, I quickly refer to it to see which of these generic activities I could use to quickly create a very stimulating and diverse lesson. There are 100 activities that serve as a template to use for ANY lesson. Including primary school lessons I have used them just as religiously during my intermittent projects in primary schools. The kids love them!. These activities range from the simplest activities such as gap-fills to more complex interactive rating and assessment exercises. There are some really fun activities! I have consequently decided to produce a lesson-planning pack which fully explains how each activity can be used in a lesson. Alongside this, I have also created a compendium of 25 exemplary PowerPoint activities. Quite honestly, this makes lesson planning infinitely easier and I am so glad I’ve done it. It occurred to me that every teacher would want a copy of this and thus, I’ll be honest, I thought I could make a little pocket money from this at the same time. Thus, if you are interested in the pack of 100 activities and 25 PowerPoint activities, then could you please download them from this direct paypal link. [link removed]!!!
I used to write stuff on the board to start the day, like so many others. I just was surfing through scholastic.com and found scholastic.com/teachers/daily-starter/teacher
that has a bit of LA, math, and daily thought for every day of the year, by grade level. No more writing for me.
I highly recommend this teacher. She gave my daughter an incredible foundation for her writing skills. She is also just a wonderfully supportive mentor for her students. (Parent of former student/French teacher)
While I do teach many lessons and then have students apply it to there own writing several of us of concluded that we have students that would also benefit from some structured practice that our "old" English/Grammar textbooks provided. Anyone have a book you would suggest we should check out? Thanks.
I am looking for any good titles of African American Biographies. I teach 4th grade and our next book report is to be about a Famous African American. Do you know of a good series or specific title?
dan4thgrHere is a great resource for you whenever you are looking for books. BookWizard has 84 titles on 4th grade interest level African American biographies. Here is the link to bookwizard---[link removed]
Do you think that Ipad's are good technological tools to integrate into your lessons in the classroom, or is it more of a distraction for the students because it is more of like a toy or something to play with to them?
On 1/21/12, Wendy wrote: > On 1/20/12, Allison Schmidt wrote: >> Do you think that Ipad's are good technological tools to >> integrate into your lessons in the classroom, or is it more >> of a distraction for the students because it is more of >> like a toy or something to play with to them? > > > My school just started to use the iPad2 for DRA testing. Each > teacher received an iPad to keep for the year (still belongs > to the school) and we're encouraged to download other > educational apps to use in the classroom. I use it when I > provide Tier 3 interventions to a very small group of > struggling students. It's working out nicely.
iPads are very beneficial. Students are more engaged and don't even realize that they are reinforcing the skills that have been taught in class. Many of the educational apps allow for self monitoring which prevents extra work for the teacher. It is a great tool.