WORDS Of ENCOURAGEMENT: Youth Entrepreneurs
The TEEN Principle is a great way for a youth to find a business idea and build it into an enterprise.
Literacy in Any Content Area
My first year of teaching middle school math and science was filled with one realization after another. Early ones included:
Determining a Child's Reading Level
Here’s a quick tool from Sue Klund, Reading Expert, to find a student’s independent reading level (the level that gives you the most growth in reading scores when reading independently). It is also great to have this for a new student.
Google “San Diego Quick Assessment“.
This time-saving tool has been around for a long […]
Math for All Levels
This math resource is for all grade levels (you can even search by grade level)!
Illuminations
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
105 Online Activities
548 Lesson Plans (Which one is your favorite?)
724 Web Links
1377 Math-based Classroom Integrations
Activities, lessons, and standards aligned with the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics.
Special Ed or Language?
Here’s my understanding of the best approaches regarding “How to Tell if it’s a Special Education of Language Issue” and it centers around the parent as expert concerning their child.
Tip & Tease
By Marlene Caroselli, Ed.D
Tip: Use Collective Knowledge
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. So is time. By asking your table groups to record everything they already know about the subject at the beginning of a new unit, you’ll learn what they’ve already learned. Thus you can make some quick, if subtle, adjustments […]
Attention: Parents, Don't Give Your Kids a Cell Phone Until You Read This
You may have heard about “sexting,” a combination of the words “sex” and “texting”, an act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily between cell phones. CBS reports, “The practice of sexting is shockingly common among teens.” And ABC says, “Sexting teens can go too far.”
Some children have committed suicide and […]
Online Continuing Education for Teachers
“This is the most fun I’ve ever had in an online class…”
Spanish for Teachers is a primer for non-Spanish speaking teachers to communicate with students and their families who speak Spanish as a first language. Teachers will be introduced to general vocabulary and phrases that assist with understanding in the classroom as well […]
Teaching a Love of Reading
By Ben Bleckley
“It looks as though school, no matter the age or nation, has had only one role. And that’s to teach the mastery of technique and critical commentary and to cut off spontaneous contract with books by discouraging the pleasure of reading. It’s written in stone in every land: pleasure has no […]
