Partner Book Talk Procedures
Kindergarten Precursor to Literature Circles
by
Sandy Hamilton
Our Partner Book Talk is an extension of our Read Aloud with accountable talk...
Teachers.Net Adds Chatboards for all U.S. States & D.C.
From the Editor
Teachers.Net has dramatically expanded with the addition of chatboards and mailrings for every state in the U.S. and the District of Columbia...
Homeschooling
from
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management
Homeschooling -- educating children under the supervision of parents instead of school teachers...
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Jamie Robert Vollmer The Blueberry Story: The teacher gives the businessman a lesson
"If I ran my business the way you people operate your schools, I wouldn't be in business very long!"...
A LOOK AT . . . Getting Back to Basics
by Alfie Kohn
We are facing an educational emergency in this country. You've heard that claim before, of course, but this time there's a twist...
We Have Achieved Education For All...Now We Seek Education for Each
by Bill Page
In any classroom grouping, there are only two possibilities: either all the kids in class are alike or some of them are different...
Revisiting a "Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood"
by Dr. Rob Reilly
I believe that educational technology will greatly enhance the ability of students to learn and will provide educators with terrific tools to facilitate learning...
How Teachers Can Benefit From School Choice
by Robert Holland
Rarely does discussion of the prospect for increased educational freedom in the United States extend to the classroom teacher, the person whose work is so crucial to academic progress...
The Tipping Point
by Jay Davidson
Gladwell has made a study of significant changes that result when influential people change the way they approach problems...
Best Practice: Establish a "No Putdown Rule" in Your Classroom
by Susan Gingras Fitzell Class rule: No putdowns, no exceptions...not by students or by the teacher...
Online Course with Leslie Bowman Aims to Break the Cycle of Bullying
by Kathy Noll
Bullying is a widespread (international) problem that has serious ramifications on students' ability to progress academically and to grow emotionally and socially...
Teaching Is A Full Time Profession
by Dave Melanson
In Quebec Many Politicians Do Not See It This Way...