That's My Job! Promoting Responsibility in the Preschool Classroom
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Mary E. Maurer
Samantha bounced into the classroom, and after a quick "hi," headed for the job board. Her smile faded when she didn't find her name. Then she seriously studied the class list posted next to the board. She found the last name on the job board and counted the names between it and her own. Then she slowly and methodically counted again and calculated on her fingers. The smile returned. "Three more days!" she shouted triumphantly. "Three more days and I get to be door holder!"...
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War Impacts Preschool Students -
Current events and behavior changes
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the Teachers.Net Early Childhood Chatboard
I have been wondering if any of you have observed differences in your children's behavior in the past week? I teach at a school where the children are military dependents (4/5 year olds) and I have a class of 25 that is predominately male...
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An Art Historian on Children in the Museum
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Erick Wilberding
An art historian by training, for the past eight years I have taught art history at Marymount International School in Rome, and I regularly take groups of middle school and high school students into the city to tour the monuments and museums. In this time I have learned several helpful tips about taking students to museums that I would like to pass on...
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How To Use Anchoring for Accelerated Learning
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Stelios Perdios
Anchoring is a powerful NLP technique for ensuring access to our greatest personal resources. Anchoring means creating an association of ideas, feelings, thoughts or states with a specific stimulus...
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Direction for Teachers of Creative Writing
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Dan Lukiv
In the hermeneutic phenomenological tradition, I explored through interviews this research question: What, if any, experiences in school encouraged one person to become an adult creative writer?...
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We're Still Leaving the Teachers Behind
Clearly, change is necessary. Successful education reform depends on transforming teaching from an isolated, freelance culture into an open, collaborative culture that fosters professional excellence and accountability...
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Bill Page
Bureaucrat's Field of Dreams: If You Test Them They Will Learn -
A Rousing, Rip-Roaring,Raving Rant
Teachers will tolerate incredible abuse of themselves; but, they will not tolerate their students being systematically, deliberately and inhumanely abused in the name of standards, research, assessment or the state "alphabet soup" of high-stakes tests, accountability, or anything else imaginable...
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Kathleen Carpenter
Editor's epicks for April
Over 30 links to valuable resources located throughout Teachers.Net and elsewhere.
- From the Archives
- From the Teachers.Net Lessons Bank
- Teachers.Net Resources
- Other Helpful Sites
and much more...
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 Catherine Schandl
TEAPOT Word Game -
What Every Teacher Should Know!
I have always been fascinated by old, worn books so it was nothing out of the ordinary that, some years ago in the teacher's room of the ESL school where I was teaching, I noticed such a book. It was nestled between two glossy grammar books on the bookcase of the teacher's room and what first caught by eye was that the cover was missing. That meant that someone -- or many people -- had used it a great deal!...
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China ESL -
An Industry Run Amuck?
In 1862, under the Great Qing Dynasty, the first English Language School was officially opened by the Chinese Government to train ten men for the newly created diplomatic corps...
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Mechele Ussery
Egg Hatching
A PowerPoint Presentation
From eggs to chicks, a pictorial journey...
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From The Teachers.Net Chatboard
Tutorial - High Frequency Words
(for students who struggle)
I have a 3rd grade student who cannot read sight words from a preprimer list. I know about sight word bingo and things like that. Any other ideas besides drilling over and over again? ...
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Lisa Indiana 2-3
Vocabulary Activities
Tap Lights, Inside/Outside Circles, & Quick Draw...
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