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by Agsrul!

Jul 6, 2012

I would like to start out my 6 th grade world cultures classes with Olympics related activities such as charting medals won, reading articles, making their own Olympic pin, etc. this would be for the first week or so of classes while schedules are being adjusted. But yesterday I realized that the Olympics are over on August 12th. We go back to scho...See More

by Sandy

Jul 9, 2012

What do you think about pre-testing? When I was a student teacher, I had to pre-test students to test their prior knowledge before I began a particular topic. Now that I'll have my own class, I wonder if I should continue this practice? Sometimes it helped me, but most of the time I realized the kids knew very little and it ended up being a waste o...See More

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Froggybee I believe you need to do some kind of pre-assessment for every unit you teach, even if it is informal. Giving a full-blown pretest is silly (I think) but it is great to know how much background knowledge kids have for certain topics. One way to do this is to have kids put their names on a sticky note and then choose either "know nothing", "have som...See More

Jul 26, 2012

Paula Having pretests may not be so much to tell you that the students have so much to learn, but it is one way to measure growth and see evidence of teaching/learning.

In this culture of hating teachers, it's always good to have evidence-based learning happening.

Also, the hope is that teachers use the standards to write these pretes...See More

Aug 25, 2012

Teaching supply you couldn't live without...

by Jim

Jul 9, 2012

Can you name one or two teaching supplies that you couldn't live without? Anything counts...

agsrule! my promethean board & projector storage containers & baskets

Jul 10, 2012

Debbie On 7/10/12, agsrule! wrote: > my promethean board & projector > storage containers & baskets Sticky notes & the document camera

Jul 10, 2012

How to Use Quotes to Promote Literacy Development

by Teachers.Net Gazette

Jul 12, 2012

For the past fifteen years of my teaching career, I have incorporated the use of quotes into my classroom’s morning routine to inspire my students, start the day on a positive note, and build lasting habits of character. Discussing well-known sayings brings out the best in children and helps them focus on important ideas.

[Click below t...See More

How to Use Quotes to Promote Literacy Development

by Teachers.Net Gazette

Jul 12, 2012

How to Use Quotes to Promote Literacy Development

For the past fifteen years of my teaching career, I have incorporated the use of quotes into my classroom’s morning routine to inspire my students, start the day on a positive note, and build lasting habits of character. Discussing well-known sayings brings out the best in children and h...See More

by Rhonda

Jul 15, 2012

Help!! I need peace slogans for a middle school classroom. Thanks.

Middle School Freebies!

by Krystal

Jul 16, 2012

Hi everybody!

I know I'm not in here very often - I find myslef getting wrapped up in various forums:) Anyhow, I just posted a linky on my blog that you may be interested in. It's all middle school freebies from various teacher-bloggers. The collection will be up indefinitely, and so it should only continue to grow. Please come on over an...See More

Desperately Need Advice

by Jaycee

Jul 28, 2012

I have just accepted a newly created MS math position. I am a veteran teacher and very excited to be teaching all math classes but here are teh problems. First, my classroom is the stage. Right now the only thing I have there that I can use is a nice white board. I have no storage and no way to lock up anything or even make anything less accessible...See More

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Here are a few ideas Rubbermaid makes very nice plastic locking cupboards. You can store things you might not want "lifted" from your room. Your purse and calculators come to mind and pencils or correcting pens and white board markers. Maybe small dry erase boards, games, flash card sets.....

You can color code your classes and use one color of hanging storag...See More

Jul 29, 2012

ok A locking rolling cart with a padlock and chain.

Jul 30, 2012

Any good ideas for 8th grade LA Beginning of Year Activity?

by Andrea

Jul 28, 2012

Sorry if this is a duplicate.

I'm moving from teaching 7th grade LA to 8th this fall (I just found out).

I had some great beginning of the year activities for 7th grade, but I don't want to use them for 8th because I'll have some of my students again. Does anyone have a good opening activity that you use? Thanks.

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Julie Sara - great idea! Would you mind sharing the Faulkner sentence you're referring to? Thanks!

On 7/31/12, Sara wrote: > > I like to begin the year with a 'Two Word Sentence Contest'. > Write an interesting or even intruiging two word sentence. It > gives me the opportunity to say - again - a sentence has a > subject and pred...See More

Aug 2, 2012

Sara On 8/02/12, Julie wrote: > Sara - great idea! Would you mind sharing the Faulkner sentence > you're referring to? Thanks!

If you google it, it will tell you on what page that sentence is in Absalom, Absalom. I could not find the actual sentence on the web. It's 1,287 words long. It's rather a stream of consciousness sentence - it co...See More

Aug 2, 2012

Spelling in middle school?

by What do you do?

Jul 31, 2012

I don't think we have any organized spelling in our 6-8 middle school. Should there be? What does your school do for spelling?

I don't know about you but texting short hand has taken over and invaded writing. I get IDK on answers for tests too.

Just thinking out loud and wondering what you think.

Lisa On 7/31/12, What do you do? wrote: > I don't think we have any organized spelling in our 6-8 > middle school. Should there be? What does your school do > for spelling? > > I don't know about you but texting short hand has taken > over and invaded writing. I get IDK on answers for tests > too. > > Just thinking out loud an...See More

Jul 31, 2012

Sara On 7/31/12, What do you do? wrote: > I don't think we have any organized spelling in our 6-8 > middle school. Should there be? What does your school do > for spelling? > > I don't know about you but texting short hand has taken > over and invaded writing. I get IDK on answers for tests > too. > > Just thinking out loud an...See More

Jul 31, 2012

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