Education World Professional Development Newsletter -- Volume 1, Issue 10
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor Myths and Truths of the Job Hunt
On the hunt -- Emma McDonald discusses myths, truths, and helpful hints for a new teacher's job search.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/mcdonald/mcdonald018.shtml
Dr. Ken Shore's Classroom Problem Solver Trouble-Free Field Trips
Dr. Ken Shore provides nine tips for avoiding discipline problems and ensuring safe and educational school field trips.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore021.shtml
A Student With Asthma
Eight common sense tips on how to help minimize the effects of asthma on students' academic and social success.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore077.shtml
Dr. Fred Jones's Tools for Teaching Calm Is Strength; Upset Is Weakness
The more adept you become at building work check into teaching, the more responsibility students take for quality control, and the more your evenings are freed up for lesson planning.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones009.shtml
The Body Language of Commitment
Kids read body language. They are born with that ability, and they get better at it with each passing year. Dr. Fred Jones explains how you can exploit that skill by employing the body language of meaning business.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones010.shtml
Voice of Experience The Power of Educator Listservs
"Using the Internet, we communicate regularly, support one another unconditionally, celebrate one another's teaching successes, and mentor one another in spite of the obstacles of global separation."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/voice/voice039.shtml>
Teaching in a Lower Gear
An expanding curriculum and high-stakes testing leave many teachers feeling pressured to just "cover the curriculum." Brenda Dyck reflects on the place of "slow teaching" in a speed-teaching world.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/voice/voice111.shtml
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OUR WEEKLY PRO DEV FEATURES
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Reader's Theater Uptown Mouse and Country Mouse
Two very different mice discover that home is the place where you belong.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/ReadersTheater
/ReadersTheater019.shtml
The Reading Coach Summertime Reading
Cathy Puett Miller explains how teachers can encourage parents to include reading in their summer plans, and help them keep their kids reading by making summertime reading different than "that stuff I do at school."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller016.shtml
Teacher Features A View from Behind the Lens: Starring Liese Ricketts
"The prospect of using the podcast format appealed to me because so many students use their iPods for more than simply listening to music."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature153.shtml In a State: Starring Tina Dunn
"For me, the greatest part of the Arkansas Scavenger Hunt project is that students are not just learning about our state and local community. They are learning research skills, time management and organizational skills, how to work with other people, presentation skills, and so much more."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature154.shtml
Go Figure Count the Monkeys
Students look for an elusive monkey in this amazing "vanishing" puzzle.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/math/go_figure/go_figure001.shtml
Explain That! Probability
Probability is a numerical measure -- in fractions or ercentages -- of how likely an event is to happen.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/explainthat/explainthat008.shtml
Bulletin Boards That Teach The End
Encourage summer reading!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bullboard/bullboard010.shtml
Strategies That Work Looping
Discover the benefits and disadvantages of looping.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy014.shtml> Shared Reading
An approach that engages students and makes them better readers.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy008.shtml
Backpacktivities Which National Park?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homework/pdfs/backpacktivity_035.pdf> We're Off!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homework/pdfs/backpacktivity_036.pdf
Join the Conversation
What's your favorite book for summer reading? What book are you most looking forward to reading this summer? Share your choices!
http://forums.educationworld.com/
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MORE FROM EDUCATION WORLD AND OUR ARCHIVES
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Brenda's Blog Have You Tried YouTube?
The very online tools that provide incredible learning opportunities also allow students access to inappropriate information and images. The enduring challenge for educators is how to access one without the other.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/dyck/dyck015.shtml
Doug Johnson's Tech Proof Is Educational Climate Change Ahead?
“I believe a meteor is on the educational horizon that will so dramatically alter the school climate that our current dinosaur-friendly environment will cease to exist and give rise to a new breed of educators – and that meteor is affordable 1:1 computing.”
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson018.shtml
Larry Bell's Somebody Needs You Simulated Test Days Are Key
"You never want to surprise at-promise kids when they have to take a standardized test. By planning simulated test days, you work out the kinks and kids know what to expect."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/bell/bell004.shtml
Education World Humorist Regina Barreca Charmed, I’m Sure
"I want to argue that the trinkets I wear on special occasions (or even on everyday ones, such as the days I teach) were forged in the lives of others. These heavy bracelets are not my chains -- they are my charms.”
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/columnists/barreca/barreca020.shtml
Reflecting Poole Kindness Counts
“Life is constantly thrusting at us random realities that we either can accept or deny. One day, about two months ago -- every day seems like an age here in India where my experiences are so frequently fresh and new -- there was a knock at my guest house door. In walked Thasleema, with her friend Madhu."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/poole/poole008.shtml
Lorrie Jackson's Techtorials Tots and Technology
The skills young students need for successful computer use in the preschool and primary grades are no different than those needed to be successful in other areas of the curriculum.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial019.shtml Improving Media Literacy
Choosing quality Web sites to use in your classroom can be a time consuming endeavor. You can make that endeavor easier and more successful, however, by using COCOA P (and your instincts) to find the class among the trash on the Internet!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial002.shtml
Wire Side Chat of the Week Using Acting Skills in the Classroom
By using acting techniques, teachers can grab and hold students’ attention and enjoy teaching more.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/chat/chat213.shtml
Teach for America Diaries Defeating Self-Defeating Behavior
“I have been given the role of preparing students for their Math MCT…I now had seven weeks in which to teach students all there was to know about fifth-grade measurement and data analysis.”
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/TFA_diaries/TFA_mostaghimi006.shtml Templates of the Week Volunteer Award Certificate
Award this certificate of appreciation to your valued volunteers.
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#awardCertificates Home Reading Log
Invite students and parents to record their thoughts as they read together.
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#lang_artss
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Teacher Features
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Backpacktivities
Reflecting Poole
Lorrie Jackson's Techtorials
