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TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE
JANUARY 2002
Volume 3 Number 1

COVER STORY
Harry & Rosemary Wong say, "All effective schools have a culture and it is the information one gets from a culture that sends a message to the students that they will be productive and successful." This month the Wongs offer more examples of successful school and classroom management...
COLUMNS
Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong
Promoting Learning by Marv Marshall
4 Blocks by Cheryl Sigmon
Ask the School Psychologist by Beth Bruno
Online Classrooms by Leslie Bowman
The Eclectic Teacher by Ginny Hoover
The Busy Educator's Monthly Five (5 Sites for Busy Educators) by Marjan Glavac
Around the Block by Cheryl Ristow
Ask the Literacy Teacher by Leigh Hall
The Visually Impaired Child
ARTICLES
Teaching Is...
Avoiding the 'Stares' When Intellectually Challenging Disadvantaged Students: Partnership Lessons from the HOTS Program
Why Use an Interactive Whiteboard?
A Baker’s Dozen Reasons!
The Effects Of Diet
Bully Advice For Kids
Teaching Gayle to Read (Part 2)
Both Sides Now in Gifted Education
What Are We Aiming At--What Do We Really Want To Aim At?
Teaching Graph from the Grassroots
Why Teachers Need Tenure
A Different Perspective to the Holidays
TEACHER INSPIRATION FEATURE
A Lesson Learned
FICTION FEATURE
Follow The Wonder
REGULAR FEATURES
The Lighter Side of Teaching
Handy Teacher Recipes
Classroom Crafts
Help Wanted - Teaching Jobs
New in the Lesson Bank
Upcoming Ed Conferences
Letters to the Editor
Chatboard Poll
FYI
eIditarod 2002
Planetary Society Protests Stop to Near-Earth Object Observations
Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
7th Annual Multidisciplinary Symposium on Breast Disease
Arab American Students in Public Schools
School Bus Subsidies for Field Trip to 2002 Tour De Sol
Gazette Home Delivery:

Letters to the Editor...
Parent Accountability

The least that parents should be
accountable for is to make sure their
children attend school every day and check
their book bags and homework each night
(or if they work nights, first thing in
the morning). I have heard of a school
district in my state that made parents
sign a contract to this effect. I don't
think that legally any thing has been done
to parents that haven't held up the
agreement. I do know that my school
district has taken parents to court for
not sending their children to school. The
family in my school that this happened to
was prosecuted and will face some
consequences if her children do not have a
doctor's note as an excuse. I agree
with Cato in that children do much better
with parent support. I have seen this
countless times in my 17 years of
teaching. I think that all parents should
have to sign an agreement stating that
they will at least send their children to
school every day, unless really ill and at
least talk with their children about their
homework (I have had parents that can't
read and therefore could not help with
homework). There should be mandatory
parenting classes for parents that can not
do these small, significant tasks for
their children.

Julie, Jbeebe@irsd.k12.de.us,
1/05/02

This month's letters:

  • Accountability, 1/31/02, by keccles.
  • Accountability, 1/26/02, by Margaret.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/24/02, by Lori.
  • Accountability, 1/24/02, by Keccles.
  • Accountability, 1/19/02, by Whitebeard.
  • Proven Research, 1/09/02, by Kara Sherfick.
  • Keccles, 1/08/02, by Stacy.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/08/02, by Marilyn Treuil.
  • school auction, 1/08/02, by ginger taylor /canaan elementary pto.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/07/02, by Bill Page.
  • Accountability, 1/07/02, by Keccles.
  • It's about time we make them accountable!, 1/06/02, by Mkocar.
  • Do we need them to be accountable?, 1/06/02, by Stacy.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/06/02, by Little John.
  • Parent accountability; teacher responsibility, 1/06/02, by Bill Page.
  • Parent Accountability - the overachiever, 1/05/02, by Don.
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by Doodah.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/05/02, by Jacque/WA/K-1.
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by Bill T.
  • parent accountability, 1/05/02, by sandy m.s..
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by JoAnn.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/05/02, by a middle school teacher.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/05/02, by another 5th grade teacher.
  • Parent Accountability, 1/05/02, by Julie.
  • No tax rebate, surcharge them, or tuition refund incentive, 1/05/02, by George.
  • parent accountability, 1/05/02, by jen.
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by MaryBeth.
  • Parent accountability, 1/05/02, by cato.

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