Classroom organization can be a challenge, especially in the primary grades. As a primary teacher, I tend to accumulate a lot of stuff. I have always...
Already a hit with the education market, Apple’s iPad is poised to completely take it over, according to the analyst firm Needham & Company,...
Over the past year~ I have seen behavior management in classrooms take a turn away from the negative behaviors and focusing on the positive. School...
Teachers know that creating a genuine audience for students’ work dramatically increases their focus and motivation. Yet when student work goes...
With the upcoming election, I have developed materials which you may find of value to use with your students. The first resource is a webquest on the...
Do you want to know one of the biggest mistakes teachers make?Waitwaitwait for it.Thats it! They dont wait for the answer.The number one mistake...
Change is hard something that those in the education community may know better than most. Whether it is changing a school culture, a childs life...
Today was day 2 for my first graders. Today I introduced an anchor chart (formerly known as thinking maps). I prefer the term anchor charts because I...
Are your students bored? Then let them make a board. A game board that is.As a teacher of gifted students, I am always amazed at how my classes have...
This guest blog post was made by EducationWorld Web Assistant Joseph Murphy, a student at Furman University in Greenville, SC.
Students in the...
Employment Web site CareerBliss recently ranked the happiest and unhappiest jobs in America and, according to their methodology, teachers are the...
As a teacher, do you want to have tunnel vision? Do you want to be locked into one way of doing things? Do you want to stop growing and building upon...
September 22 is Elephant Appreciation Day. Did you know that elephants can be right or left tusked, kind of like humans are with their hands? Did you...
Changing jobs can be stressful. Lets face it. No matter what you know from the previous job, you will always face a learning curve when entering a...
A Louisiana charter school's policy requiring female students to submit to pregnancy tests and expelling those found to be pregnant has come under...
This guest blog post was made by EducationWorld Web Assistant Joseph Murphy, a student at Furman University in Greenville, SC.
In the first...
Reputations are like shadows. They follow you everywhere!We often tell our students that their reputation is important, and that it will follow them...
Differentiation in the classroom is a given, and one way to differentiate is by changing up the product for different level/interest of the...
As a constituency, children receive little attention in federal budget discussions. Today in Washington, and indeed leading up to the implementation...
Seton Hall University is partnering with Microsoft to outfit all 2012 incoming freshmen with a bundle of Windows devices in an effort to better...