My family is considering a move back to Nebraska. What is the salary like there for elementary ed with masters? it was pathetic when i moved away 10 years ago. Has it gotten any better?
I have some information that might be worth sharing with Nebraska art teachers. I work in public relations on behalf of U.S. Cellular, and the company is focusing its corporate giving on education. U.S. Cellular has partnered with DonorsChoose.org and has set aside $1 million for a program called “Calling All Teachers.”
Calling All Teachers enables and encourages public-school teachers to post funding requests for projects on the site DonorsChoose.org that might not fit into their allotted budgets. Public-school teachers may post funding requests to the site through Teacher Appreciation Week, May 4-8. There are currently 12 Nebraska projects on the site, and I’m confident that there is a greater funding need than those 12 projects in Nebraska, so perhaps if you shared this information among your colleagues, as well as in a newsletters, blogs, Facebook, e-mail blasts or all of the above that you have access to, it might help more projects from Nebraska appear on the donor site.
You can read up on Calling All Teachers on U.S. Cellular’s site at the link provided above or e-mail me if you have any questions.
As a teacher I understand the importance of learning new methodologies in order to teach. In 1999, I studied for one year the techniques involved with teaching special ed children in a general classroom atmosphere. In 2007 I went to England as part of a teacher exchange program to both teach and learn other methodologies for teaching languages. Additionally, I have participated in numerous seminars through both the councils of the United States and the United Kingdom; in them I have learned strategies to improve my classroom abilities and to maximize the use of modern technologies i.e. the interactive board.
Since Chile is a Spanish speaking country far from English speaking countries, opportunites to learn every day English are few. Thus, we need to emphasize attractive accitivites and opportunites for students to learn. We have organized festivals of English songs in which students would perform karaoke. Other activities include opportunites to share both Spanish and English cultures through online contacts of international schools. These are opportunities for the students to make friends from their age groups and tastes while permitting both schools to have parallel learning opportunites for their students.
Additionally I have extensive experiences dealing with students suferring from social risks. In the Chilean public schools disadvataged students would often need special psychological approaches so as to allow them to communicate and maintain good behaviour in the classroom. This in the context of having forty-seven students per class while maintaining control have expanded my abilities.
Please if you know some information about schools, let me know.
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Please take time to complete this survey. It is for a thesis statement. I would appreciate your thoughts and opinions. After all, if it does not currently concern you, it will eventually. Results will be posted at the end of July, 2009.
I am putting together a 50 postcard exchange! I am collecting address of interested teachers- 1 from each state. I am desperately in need of NE! For our exchange, each class is required to send a postcard from their state to each of the other classes. If all goes as planned, you should receive 49 postcards- 1 from each other state in return. This is a great way to teacher about the US and makes a really fun bulletin board! If you are interest, please email me at [email removed]:
State: Name: Grade: School: Address:
Thank you! Please email me any questions! [email removed]
This line is from my previous post and is incorrect -- this applies to ALL Nebraska teachers, not just art teachers. Sorry for the typo.
Brian