A student is accused of spiking a teacher's drink with eye drops to get even with the teacher for suspending one of his friends.  The threats had been in the wind days before the incident.   When I first read this, I thought there had to be something I was missing. VIDALIA, La. - A 16-year-old student is accused of poisoning his ...

All,   I teach 11th grade U.S. History in New York.  I have built a website that contains content k-12.  I am looking for teachers in various states to test it out and email me some feedback.   www.bubbabrain.com is the name of the website.  You need to have internet explorer 7 to use the software.   Try it out ...

 #1. Hot Glue Gun Are you sick and tired of taping and re-taping posters to the walls of your classroom? Go out and buy a hot glue gun. It will hold your posters up for the entire year. I have glued my entire classroom in one way or another.(Perhaps going a bit crazy with it sometimes.) I purchased a cordless glue gun which ...

- Quiet (It can be used in the classroom without interrupting others)- Razor Sharp Cutting Blade (A perfect point every time without the loud grinding)- Sturdy Metal Body (To last an entire teaching career)- Clear plastic disposal tray for easy clean up (No overflows or messy spills)- Automatic Stop (Will never over sharpen your pencil)- ...

    Twenty-seven hours is a magic number, indeed.  Plenty of teachers, union stewards, and administrators know this number by heart.  It spells out the number of hours teachers can use for school-based professional development.  What do 27 hours actually look like on a typical campus?  Let's take a minute to ...

 I love the DVD 212 degrees produced by Simple Truths.  After presenting the scientific fact that it takes one extra degree to turn boiling water into steam, you are taken on a journey to answer a simple question:  What if you gave 99% effort to everything in life?  How would life change without that extra degree of ...

Fate brought me to TeacherLingo,Where I found blogging can be done in gusto,The teacher are united, we are numero uno,Our presences are felt, no longer in shadows.Teaching is my passion, my utmost delight,I learn as I teach, I'm not always right,To me, we are beacons guiding through the night,When the future seems dim, we provide the ...

Below is a brief overview of South Carolina teacher certification requirements:South Carolina Division of Educator Quality and Leadership requires Praxis II Examinations that include all the content area tests and the PLT. The PLT is the ''Principles of Learning and Teaching'' that are divided into three levels: K-6, 5-9, 9-12. Students in teacher ...

During school and college, I had a difficult time finding the help I needed from teachers and tutors.  Therefore, I developed the website www.helpmetutors.com, where students can search tutors, and tutors and teachers can post their study related materials.  The purpose of the study is to help students with their studies and help ...

I'm a teacher who took a year off to go to graduate school...for those of you considering doing the same....DON'T DO IT! Once your used to teaching it is hard to focus on only studying!!! I'm begining to think I have ADD/ADHD...