Education World's
Learning Machine
Explore the coolest teaching resources on the Web.
From the Reading Machine
Invite students to visit Fun City to practice their spelling skills. (Grades 1-3) From the Math Machine Mission: Magnetite is a fun Web site for teaching percents and fractions. (Grades 3-5) From the Science Machine
Use floe to explore the topics of climate change and energy. (Grades 3-12)
|
|
Wow box text starts here, about 20 words or so and ends with an ellipses so readers know to click the This Weeks Highlights link (or whatever text you choose to use as a headline) to read
Don't Go Back to School Without a Flu Shot
As teachers and administrators finalize all the last-minute details for the start of a new school year, the American Lung Association wants them to remember to include an influenza vaccination in their back-to-school preparations.
Speak Up or Burn Out The best way to fight teacher burnout is to take active steps to resolve the problems that threaten to consume us.
Getting to Know You
When Freyja Bergthorson discovered that many of her 150 students didn't know their classmates' names, she took action in a flash -- a camera flash!
Wire Side Chat
Class Rules Smooth Way for the Year Rules in School, a book from the Northeast Foundation for Children, tells teachers how they can regain instructional time during the school year by helping students develop class rules and consequences at the beginning of the year.
Strategy of the Week
Responsive Classroom Developed by classroom teachers, the Responsive Classroom approach emphasizes students' social as well as academic growth.
Ken Shore: The Classroom Problem Solver Class Participation
When students speak up in class, they learn to express their ideas in ways others can understand. When they ask questions, they learn how to increase their own understanding.
Ms. Powell's Tips for Organizing Your Classroom Pockets of Real-World Reading Material
A large, heavy-duty chart with clear pockets is a great way to store a wide variety of authentic, real-world reading materials.
Classroom Management Article of the Week The Secret's in the Little Things: Simple Tips for Successful Teachers
Here they are -- 12 quick tips to help make managing your classroom a breeze! Included are tips for getting to know your students, communicating with parents, getting your day of to a good start, and much more.
From Our Classroom Tips Library
Classroom Management: Seat Assignments Behavior Management: Make-Up Work Motivating Kids: Engage Them With Props Book Report Makeover: Character Interview Homework Tips: Excuses, Excuses Best Idea: Calendar Art Testing Tips: Just in Time
Joe Martin: The Teacher Motivator Go for Your (Teaching) Goals
Persuade yourself to buy what youre selling by overexposing yourself to your own commercial. And what are you trying to sell yourself? Your teaching goals!
Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor The Secret Weapon: Getting to Know Your Students
Building positive relationships with students is the number one way to forestall behavior problems. The more students know and respect you, the more they will behave for you in the classroom.
Fred Jones: Tools for Teaching Weaning the Helpleas Handraisers (Part 1)
Ah, the helpless handraisers -- students whose hands are waving in the air no matter what you do or say. Discover how to turn helpless handraisers into independent learners.
Eric Baylin: Songs to Brighten a Teacher's Day Go, Teacher, Go
It's almost September, when the lazy pace of summer will soon be overwhelmed by the quickening pace of school. On your markget sethold onto your grade books and Go!
Meet other members of Education World's Professional Development columnist team.
Create a Classroom of Writers Using the Meet the Authors Collection
Drive home the importance of each step of the writing process with real words from real authors.
The Writer's Notebook Laura Nardi's third graders get the "write" idea.
Writing Lessons Goldilocks: The Sequel Write a sequel to "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." (Grades 3-8) How the Kangaroo Got Its Pouch Create a play based on an Australian kangaroo legend. (Grades 3-5)
Fame, Money, or Power?
Fame, money, or power -- which is most important?
A Really Bad Day
When was someone upset by something you did -- or did not - do?
Reader's Theater Writer's Block
John is out of writing topics -- until characters from his imagination help him overcome "writer's block."
Cathy Puett Miller:
Phonological Weakness and Struggling Readers
Learn why phonological awareness is important to all emerging readers.
Reading Feature
Free Voluntary Reading Pays Big Dividends
Teacher William Marson shares his success in motivating sixth-graders to read using a program he calls RFF (Reading for Fun).
Best Books for Teaching About...
Spelling Hurricanes
Find Us on Facebook -- and Twitter!
Are you a fan?
Visit us on Facebook to find daily innovative and educationally sound lesson plans in all curriculum areas. Read -- or participate in -- spirited discussions of provocative education topics by those in the know. Communicate -- and collaborate -- with colleagues to share ideas, resources, and solutions.
No time for Facebook? Tap into Twitter, where snatches of conversation keep you plugged in to education issues, and up-to-date on the most successful classroom strategies and resources.
It's a whole new Education World out there. Are you part of it yet?
|
|