Quotation - The purpose of education
Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by
Teaching Kids With Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom
Posted on September 18th, 2008 by
Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Challenge and Motivate Struggling Students
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by Susan Winebrenner, Pamela Espeland |
A gold mine of practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies, and tips, it helps teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas to meet the needs of all learners-including those labeled “slow,” “remedial,” or “LD,” students of poverty, English language learners, and others who struggle to learn. Full of proven ways to significantly improve learning outcomes for students who score below proficiency levels, this is an essential resource for every educator. (more …)
Talk Like a Pirate Day - books and lessons
Posted on September 16th, 2008 by
Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day - 19th September?
Try these resources
– List of pirate books for kids
– Fiction activities for books about pirates
Celebrate Roald Dahl Day on 13th September
Posted on September 13th, 2008 by
Try some of these resources …
– Lesson plans for specific books
– Ideas for teachers
Click here - for some great ideas for your class.– Worksheets for Younger children
Click here for six worksheets to print out for 5-7 year-olds.– Worksheets for Older children
Click here for eight worksheets to print out for 8-12 year-olds.
Video - Ed-tech
Posted on September 6th, 2008 by
Advice about leading successful ed-tech initiatives …
Visual literacy
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by
This is a visual display of the different types of information presentation. Deigned as a periodic table, it is well organised and can be used for all sorts of purposes - presentations, planning and information literacy come to mind.
http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
RSS for educators - Book Review
Posted on August 14th, 2008 by
“RSS for Educators: Blogs, Newsfeeds, Podcasts, and Wikis in the Classroom” by John Hendron explains how educators working with grades PreK-12 can use a news aggregator to harness the power of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) for a variety of purposes including classroom projects, professional development, and keeping students and parents informed.
Quotation
Posted on August 8th, 2008 by
- The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort.
- The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
- K. Patricia Cross
Students can make their own comic strips
Posted on July 31st, 2008 by
free new web site — http://www.makebeliefscomix.com
– where students can create their own comic strips. The site offers fun
animal and human characters with different moods, thought and talk balloons
to fill in with words, and story prompts.
Create animation with Alice
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by
Alice.org
Alice is a 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. It is a teaching tool for introductory computing which uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface.
