It is report time and we all have to proofread each other's reports. Can you please help me with the correct English for the following sentence....
They are really big into digital portfolios here and I have attended a PD on them. The union is on the teacher's side as it takes a lot of time...
We have 'cool down' time. My students are 4 and a half to 5 and a half years old. Cool down time is after lunch. They are usually hot, excited...
Rebel1 A teacher who did an Artic theme made an igloo in her classroom using used (but clean) 3litre milk cartons (in Australia they are opaque...
When it comes to display, my ideas tend to get bigger than Ben Hur! Our theme has been "Nursery Rhymes and Fairytales", so the chldren made a...
Did you use 'slip' to stick parts of clay together? From distant memory it is thick liquified clay. If that didn't help, I'm sorry, I've no...
School jackets cost $40 each, and last year I had over $300 of 'lost' jackets (with no name). Now wouldn't you think parents would be chasing up...
From the other side of the globe, I don't understand how schools can be letting teachers go and downsizing. I mean, it's not as though the...
On the lower levels, he does understand what he is reading. I was also quering Asperger's. He is very much a loner. His social skills are...
I went on a THRASS (Teaching Handwriting Reading and Spelling Skills) course and was told to call words that can't be sounded out conventionally...
I find the whole interview and ratings system means that Principals are missing out on great teachers. If you stuff up your interview, you stuff...
So far, he is not having any difficulties with the phonics but we have only done 6 sounds. I plan to basically start him where the other...
Mum and dad told me that their son is so intelligent and that he can read all the Dr Seuss books. When I tested him at the beginning of the year...
mkate: I've had more thoughts! I use the letter/sounds as a transition tool and we will play a game where 2 copies of the letters are on the...
mkate: the things I do with the children also help to develop fine motor skills, sharing and taking turns. We collage letters, do cut and paste...
Perhaps the other posters should know that with Eduction Queensland, you are told to apply and then, 'Please don't call us, we'll call you". So...
It sounds the same all over. The complaint here is that universities are accepting too many education graduates that there are just not enough...
I use Jolly Phonics and the first six phonemes learnt are s, a, t, i, p, n. Simultaneously, we work on phonemic awareness and start putting these...
Sorry, I got side-tracked with my previous post. Last year I had one boy in particular who would take things, and deny it was him, even when all...
How do you stop stealing? Very young children can steal. I teach 5 year olds and at the start of the year we have stuff 'go missing'. We talk...
