writing I have tons and tons of writing ideas to incorporate in the classroom - some I've found on line - many I've made up! email me at...
I'm sending all my thank you cards after break! Definitely send them - teaches by example!
they notice every little thing we do - and appreciate small ways we pay attention to them
anything by Janet Allen is fabulous! Also check out If It Ain't Broke, Break It! Creating Organized Chaos in the Classroom! Lots of ideas for...
I would set up a daily routine - then just mix up what you do for each segment. Like when you break up a 90 min class period (bellringer, read...
Bribes work! Think about it - no matter how much we love teaching would we do it 50 hrs a week for free? Uh - no - we're "bribed" with a...
We have a class similar to that - just called "literacy". I've got tons of stuff especially for writing. What grade do you teach? One idea:...
too late now - but maybe for next year - one of our science teachers had the kids make snow globes out of jars - they were really cool!!
Do you teach at a public school? If so, students will be taught the state standards. If a parent takes issue with that, perhaps they should seek...
riding bike to work i think it's great you'll bike to work - it is totally professional and could spur really good conversations with kids about...
i have pencils, pens, markers, glue, scissors, construction paper, notebook paper, sharpeners all in plastic containers where kids can get them...
how bout "STARt up your vocabulary engines" - put a car in the middle of the word wall with stars for wheels
don't burn ur bridges - 1st year teachers are the first to go when there are cut-backs
rap isn't for one race of people - period - just like opera or poetry or football or surfing isn't for one race of people - sounds like the...
it's a major raise - and it's b/c she wants to improve herself - a great teacher is always a student!
get kids in circle and play "I'm going to . . . " u decide where ur going so say ur going to the beach - you say "Mr. ___ is going to the beach...
how bout take a common play and have ur students change it to rap and do a musical - they could do a children's play like Where the Wild Things...
wow - that is going to be alot of preps!!! at the beginning of school when all the kids are gunho and want to be the teacher's pet - make a wish...
Our team's English teacher had her 7th graders read the Hunger Games - they luved it! For final project they made their own movie trailers for...
high school is awesome - the kids are really invested in what they're doing!
