New Tax Law Provides $250 Deduction for Educators
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Kathleen Alape Carpenter - Editor
Qualifying educators can deduct up to $250 in out-of-pocket expenditures
A new tax deduction is available to teachers, instructors, counselors, principals and aides who work at least 900 hours during a school year in public and private elementary and secondary schools...
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Maslow's Theory of Hierarchical Needs -- Alive and Well in the Classroom
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Chuck Brickman
Schools and government agencies have long realized that if students' basic needs are not met student performance will suffer. The advent of free breakfast and lunch programs was a direct result of such considerations...
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H.O.T.S. Activities for Use With the Classroom Word Wall
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Michelle Stankevicius
I went to a workshop this summer about the importance of teaching our students HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills).
One activity that I learned is called "List, Group, Label"...
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Mid-Year Mark:
Closing the Curriculum Gap for ESL Teachers
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Jen Cullerton Johnson
As the school year approaches the midway mark, many ESL teachers may grow more anxious as the countdown begins. One looming question may be on their minds: How do we fit everything in with less time? How do we determine what is essential?...
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Teachers.Net Again Joins NEA in a Seussian Reading Celebration!
Retired educators will read to kids on March 3, 2003
The year-long reading extravaganza that culminates on -- or near -- the birthday of the late great Dr. Seuss will be led throughout the 2002-2003 school year by Ming-Na (better known as Dr. Chen on NBC's ER) and Esai Morales (Lt. Tony Rodriguez on ABC's NYPD Blue)...
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LT Marshall Branch
December 14th update from Operation Deep Freeze
As you all recall, my last update had not included anything about the Initiation Ceremony for the Crossing of the "X" yet. Well, before we made it into Australia, the ceremony took place...
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Kathleen Carpenter - Editor, Teachers.Net Gazette
Editor's e-Picks - January Resources
The Teachers.Net Archive is a treasure trove of material, available 24 hours every day. Archived chat transcripts overflow with teachers' favorite, practical ideas and activities, free for the reading...
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Bill Page
A Time for Change
Times have changed and "we can't go home again." But we can:
Change ourselves,
Change our attitudes...
and
If We Want…
If we want teachers to teach in an inclusive, diverse classroom, they must be empowered to make changes day by day in their classrooms in accordance with the needs of each student
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Joy Jones
Writing Tips for Teachers
It never fails to happen. After a teacher training workshop, or at the end of a book signing, there will be one woman who hangs back, wanting to talk to me privately.
"I like to write, too," she'll say. "Can you help me?"
Interestingly, most teachers I talk to don't want to write about education. Although some want to write scholarly articles, many want to write personal essays and experiences...
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Dr. Dorothy Rich
Practice Doesn't Always Make Perfect
Even For "High Stakes" Testing
Homework is a big concern of most parents and teachers, probably because of the common view that practice leads to improvement. Everyone from Ben Franklin to Little League and Olympics coaches have drummed that into our consciousness...
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Janet Chapman
Attention Teachers!
Homogeneous is [not always] a bad word!
Some adults today have painful emotional memories of long past days of "Dick and Jane" and reading groups of Redbirds and Bluebirds. Those traditional, inflexible, homogeneous reading groups of the past could often be humiliating and demeaning...
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Bikika T. Laloo
A Primer for
Teaching in the University
The article discusses how the art of teaching is learned on the job, on the basis of personal experiences. It also touches some teaching methods, relationships with students and some ways and means for earning their respect...
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P R Guruprasad
Dividing With a Difference
I was trying to teach single digit division to my children but with no success despite meticulous lesson planning and 'proven' teaching methods. I have failed in my self administered litmus test...
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