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Quality Teaching for Australia
The concepts of "quality teaching" and "quality teacher" are a hot debating topic in Australia. Now researchers are producing a clearer definition of the terms.
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How to Plan a Lesson Unit
Learning how to plan a unit of lesson plans is a skill. Here are some tips to help you along.
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Playing Board Games Benefits Families
Chess and classic games have provided family fun for thousands of years. Board games provide family benefits and build skills. Today there are many games to choose from.
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TEFL: Things to Consider Prior to Accepting Jobs
Many have felt the urge to travel somewhere new and exotic to teach English. But what things should you consider before catching your flight?
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Books For New Teachers
Creating a personal library of teaching books that you can refer to throughout the year is a must for new teachers.
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Motivating Small Groups To Learn
Are you short of ideas for motivating your small groups especially now that the end of the school year is here? Read on for some teaching tips.
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Teaching Creative Thinking
Many new teachers find it hard to teach creativity, but it can be a part of the entire curriculum.
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Awards for Teachers
Teachers are well deserving of more respect, reverence, and honour these days.
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School Coaches
Teachers have many roles in the school and coaching a sport afterschool is just one of them. Is a coaching class worth the investment for teachers?
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A comparison of teacher efficacy for pre and in-service
Here is an excellent article that a reader sent in. I think it deserves recognition. I am posting it in a series because it is quite long.
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Career Teaching Update Tech
Career Teaching - how DO instructors keep up with Technology skills? By attending seminars - which is something you should be checking out as well.
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Homeschooling and Games
Games can be a great homeschooling tool. Learn how to give yourself permission to play.
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How to Become a Certified Teacher
Becoming certified is the first thing that most schools and employers look for when hiring a new teacher. Learn all about the certification and training process.
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Preservice Teaching Problems
Here's a list of do's and don'ts when it comes to lesson planning and how you as a preservice teacher can avoid potential lesson planning problems and disasters.
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Book Review: The Jamlady Cookbook
If you are in the need of an excellent cookbook on canning, making jams, jellies, chutneys, marmalades, butters or preserves, I have the book for you!
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Children's Fitness - Part 1
This article takes a look at some new developments in school physical education programs designed to make PE more relevant, and more fun.
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Constance Tom Noguchi - Researcher and Mentor
Constance Tom Noguchi is Molecular Cell Biology Section Chief at the Laboratory of Chemical Biology, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health. She is a well-known mentor to science and medical students and teachers.
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Documenting a Scope and Sequence
Schools that are interested in personalizing their instruction for gifted students can begin by mapping what they teach.
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Earobics--Exercise for your Ears and Brain
Review of the CD-Roms in the Earobic Series by Cognitive Concepts
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End of the Year Vocabulary Games
For smart end of the year planning, you'll need a handy bag of vocabulary games - especially for those last few days of school.
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Eroshenko in China. Part One
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Great Riding Teachers Are Actors
An English riding instructor can have a list of abbreviations after her name, and still be horrible. Here's how to find a great, safe, wonderful riding teacher.
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Language in Primates
Non-human primates' capability for language is a result of their motivation, which lies in the importance of protection, social status, and for teaching skills.
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Library Skill-Building Scavenger Hunt
Since the library is a multi-media learning resource center, why should the student experience of the library be one-sided? Presenting library skills doesn't have to be a dull, when the teacher hosts a library scavenger hunt!
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Living Skills -Sorting Groceries
Putting groceries away in some organized fashion is a part of life. This functional skill is important for kids with cognitive delays because of the benefits in other are
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Managing School Phobia
Learn what school phobia is, what signs to look for, and how you can help.
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Play Therapy
Therapy is expensive and many parents have concerns about paying for a child to play. Still, decades of research have demonstrated many benefits to skilled Play Therapy.
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Psychological Bullying
Bullying isn't limited to pushes ahd punches in the schoolyard. Psychological bullying is behavior that intentionally harms another person, and has nasty consequences.
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Teach Empathy to Preschoolers
Empathy is the ability to understand how another person feels in a given situation. How and when do young children develop this ability?
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Teach Kindergarten Students Calendar Skills
Songs, games, and a bulletin board are used by Kindergarten teachers to teach students about the calendar using reading, math, and science mini-lessons.
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Teacher Comparison: Final Part
The final part in a series of articles comparing two countries and their methods for educating teachers.
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Teachers Plan for Summer Travel
Teachers enjoy the unique advantage of long summer vacations. Exciting travel opportunities can be educational and purposeful, but they don't have to be expensive!
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TeachNet
Review of TeachNet - "Smart Tools for Busy Teachers"
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Testing and Social and Emotional Learning. Part 1.
Social and emotional learning skills are a key part of any school curriculum now. But how are these skills being evaluated and are they being taken into account in making decisions about the student's academic life?
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The root of social and emotional issues . (cont'd)
Something about the job of teaching triggers the teacher to a point of irrational behaviour. There are several factors contributing to this and these factors must be dealt with for SEL programmes to be effective.
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Writing Lesson Plans
Lesson plan design involves planning good starting points, middles and ends of lessons.
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Asperger Community?
This article is meant to serve as an open call to all who have Asperger's Syndrome or are in any form of relationship with someone with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) of all ages. We need to think about why there is so much divisiveness and why parents of today's AS kids don't get more involved with the plight of adults with AS when their kids are going to be adults and land in the abyss of services that the rest of us already are forced to live with.
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Bibliographic Instruction: An Overview
An overview of BI with a list of resources for further information.
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Building Students' Vocabulary
Build your students' vocabulary through reading aloud children's literature. Listen for interesting words, discuss their meanings, and place them on word walls.
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Giving Homework to Students
Giving homework to students is one of the more confusing issues in the first year of teaching. Here are homework issues and some possible solutions.
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How to Choose the Appropriate Dance Class
Information helpful for those looking to take dance classes
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How to choose the appropriate dance class
Information helpful for those looking to take dance classes
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Leap Into Phonics
A review of Leap Into Phonics, educational software produced by the Douglas County School district in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Misconceptions about Feng Shui
Concerned about the who, what, wheres and how much regarding the Chinese Art of Placement? This article examines common perceptions and misconceptions about the practice.
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Modifying Curriculum in GATE Class
While many schools find it difficult to totally differentiate education for gifted students, can a whole school curricular advancement help everyone?
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Stages of Marriage
Like the individuals themselves, marriage is a living creature, fluid and shifting over time. The following two theories help to explain these changes.
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Women Baseball Players 1940s & 50s
After an inactive period of nearly a decade, women's baseball was again played. This time on a level never before reached.
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Recorder Resources
I'm sure you have some of your own reasons for teaching recorders, and I'd sure like to hear from you about those reasons. We improve and refine our thought processes and our teaching skills by sharing our experiences, our strengths and weaknesses and what we hope to accomplish over time.
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