Has anyone ever done "work to rule?" We are having difficulty negotiating a new contract so are union has asked us to work to rule. This where...
Also you can teach them to make a b with their left hand (pointer finger is the stick, other fingers and thumb make the circle.) If they get...
There might be jobs overseas. You could also be a private tutor.
No, estimating can be used in lots of different situations. I can look at a jar of marbles and estimate how many are in the jar. I can estimate...
Buy her book- well worth the $20. It's called the Next Step in Guided Reading. She has different lesson plans based on different reading levels.
It varies by state and district. Most of the research now uses ELLs. In my district we use the term ESL students for all students w/ a lang other...
Talk to his teacher, see if she has ideas. Remind the other boy to avoid this child.
love it! I like math but I would never have come up with this. Its not something I would teach my students, but I think its very creative. ETA:...
If a new contract is not reached, the old stays in effect. We are in this situation right now.
Alice- I'm not sure why the emergency lights were out. I never even thought about fire alarms. Guess we were very lucky that electricty...
I really liked wordly wise (when I was in private school 5th grade, it would be too hard for my current ESL 1st graders!). It was a good challenge...
I think you need some other ways of maintaining attention/ progress monitoring. Instead of all the quizzes have a daily exit slip w/ one key...
Last week we had a major power failure at our school. No electricity, no emergency lights. The power went out the evening before and the electric...
I'm 29. I remember purple dittos from being in first grade. (We did a lot of worksheets that year.) I'm pretty sure that my school switched to...
This is my 8th year planning, but I've moved around to a lot of different grade levels and last year we got new curriculum so this is they first...
I'd play name games or songs. Like Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar etc. Is it your job to teach them English? Games like Simon says are...
I wish I did. I've borrowed one a few times and have been really pleased with the result.
I avoid name activities. Have students retell the story to parents. Have families share a time when they had to do something they dread (like...
The next assessment I would do is a sight word test. There are several good HFW list in the fontas and pinnell kits. What strategies does she use?...
We had a girl who speaks no English in the wrong class for half a day last week. Ooops
