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Everyone has professional development days. Those days where every school in the state has professional development, and while the kids yell “We have no school on Tuesday!!” the teachers groan and mutter to each other that this professional development better be more interesting than the last one, where we learned about a great online ...

Ironically, as a language arts teacher the last set of lessons I taught were for the short story ''The Veldt'' by Ray Bradbury. The truth is, my last week as a teacher I did not want to cheat my good students from their education, so I decided to search for something meaningful to teach which would carry me to survive throughout the week. As I ...

I was a pretty imaginative kid. When shopping with my mom, I pretended everything I touched I got to keep; as though there was a storage unit somewhere being filled up, and my fingertips were my price gun. I imagined that the swing set in my backyard was a rocket ship that could transport me anywhere in the world. I imagined that my breakfast ...

Many of you have probably seen the “If the World Was a Village of 100 People” statistics. I’ve always found them very interesting, and they really put things in perspective in a straightforward way. Plus, my kids could always use an eye-opening lesson in acceptance and appreciation. So I made a bulletin board. If I do say so myself, it is ...

My college roommate took an education course for which the professor had one main objective: that each student in her class would not pass until they had made a yarnball. She hailed the yarnball as the single most important tool a teacher could have. My roommate, who was not very crafty and even less coordinated, claimed the professor was ...

Oscar Movies Writing Prompt 3-5: Movie Rules Think about your favorite movies. What do you like about them? Based on that, write 5 rules to make a great movie. Find activities for K-12 and more Video Writing Prompts on the Teacher Tips page!

My kids are scared of drawing. Even the ones who are good at it get very self-conscious and don’t want to try. They will trace other people’s pictures with no problem, but when I try to get them to draw from life they freak out. So attempting to teach them about gesture drawing was a daunting task for me. I knew I needed to take the focus ...

Returning to school each fall was always exciting for me. Exciting, but also caused me some stress, because I felt that my “first day of school” lesson plans were lacking. In the past, I’d done your typical “Decorate your portfolio with your name” lesson, or the “Make a name tag for your desk” lesson. Nothing new and exciting, I didn’t think, ...

If you’re read some of my previous posts, you know that my elementary class has always been the most difficult for me. The students ranged from first grade to fifth, all in one classroom! Talk about modifications. They also had some of the most extreme behaviors. Restraint was unfortunately a common occurrence with these guys, due to their ...

Creating game-based learning environments or experiences using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) games is becoming an increasingly tenable, valuable, and popular instructional method. COTS games are computer or video games created for entertainment purposes. A few popular examples are SimCity, Age of Empires, ZooTycoon, and Railroad Tycoon. My good ...