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Teachers.Net Gazette Vol.5 No.9 September 2008

Cover Story by Hal Portner
High Quality Teaching:
The Intangible Element
The cornerstone of quality education in our schools is what happens between teacher and student.


Harry & Rosemary Wong: Effective Teaching
It Was Something Close to a Miracle

Columns
»More Tools for Classroom Fun and SuccessCheryl Sigmon
»Time Flies!Sue Gruber
»"Getting to Know Each Other"Activities, part 2Leah Davies
»Our Back PagesTodd R. Nelson
»Using a Butterfly Analogy to Explain the Hierarchy of Social DevelopmentMarvin Marshall
»The Busy Educator's Monthly FiveMarjan Glavac
»Dear Barbara - Advice for SubsBarbara Pressman
»The First Day of Hell? and Still No Job! How Do I Stay Positive?Kioni Carter

Articles
»The Music, Movement, and Learning Connection
»Notes And Quotes From My Summer Reading
»Chinese Royalty and Cedar Wood, The History of the Pencil
»Teaching and Stress: Symptoms and Cures
»September 2008 Writing Prompts
»Learning About Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
»Donna’s Lesson Plan Files For Music Teachers
»A Teaching Guide for The Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel
»Virtual lab

Features
»Printable Worksheets & Teaching Aids
»Ineffective teachers? and Laura Bush's speech on July 28
»School Photographs for September 2008
»Lessons, Resources and Theme Activities: September 2008
»Video Bytes: Brainiac science; Puppies lulled to sleep; Pilobilus dance; and More
»Today Is... Daily Commemoration for September 2008
»Live on Teachers.Net: September 2008
»The Lighter Side of Teaching
»Apple Seeds: Inspiring Quotes for Teachers
»Peanut Free School?
»HELP! First Time Teaching Kindergarten!
»"I don't have a pencil [again]!" Does anything work?
»Newsdesk: Events & Opportunities for Teachers


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Brainiac science; Puppies lulled to sleep; Pilobilus dance; Power teaching demo; Kids talk about their food allergies; Music classroom tour. Neat stuff!
by Kathleen Alape Carpenter
Regular Feature for the Gazette
September 1, 2008
Zodea was kind enough to submit this Brainiac science video, saying:
"I really like Brainiac's Alkali metals video. It shows the increasing reactivity as you go down the periodic table. Evidently the video is somewhat faked when they did Rubidum and Cesium but it still gets the point across."

Explosions and science from UK Sky One series Brainiac. (3:16)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55kgyApYrY

Let's See the Dog Whisperer Do This!

Maybe this man should work with kids, too! (1:40)
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jCnAjel02lM

Tom Houston recommends this video:

Amazing Pilobolus Dance (3:08)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n8gxEwLx0w

Demonstration of a critical thinking exercise using "Power Teaching" in a fourth grade classroom. (9:03)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTwjFHorQhk

Kids Living With Food Allergies
A film of food allergic children produced for general audiences by www.faiusa.org
(5:53)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzyLv2IKoGA

Music Classroom Tour
Music Centers, behavior management, more, shown in a tour of Mrs. C's elementary music classroom.
(2:33)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdpTB8dpbvE

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