What Should Teachers Know?!   It's not always easy picking the right information out when your planning the next semester or school year! This year, change that. Check out this great guide that will help address middle and high school classroom teachers, administrators, and parents immediate need for basic information about how to build ...

I created this blog because I want to find out from teachers, administrators, and parents their thoughts on implementing a more diversified curriculum for students. The current curriculum, I feel based on my own experiences with the educational system, is extremely limited.  We need to be pro-active with students if we want them to become ...

Did you know that the Library of Congress and the History Channel have created a partnership? It sounds like teachers will benefit from this as well! According to the Library of Congress website at http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-075.html, ''The Library of Congress and History™ have joined forces to create a multimedia partnership to ...

http://www.educationcrossing.com/There's a great site you guy's need to check out it's  and it is an excellent source of TEACHING JOBS.there are a tremendous amount of jobs available here(really the most), their job board is An exclusive one for people who are very serious about finding Work. There are various tools on the website to help you ...

As a member of Library 2.0 on Ning, I recently received the following email from mail@library20.ning.com: Steve Hargadon is the creator of a social network for educators called Classroom 2.0 (www.classroom20.com), winner of the 2008 Edublog awards for educational use of a social networking site, and home to nearly 5,000 educators interested in ...

  Because we are in the midst of summer, I have been trying to keep my posts in a relatively light vein.  However, to give you an idea of what is coming up as we get closer to school opening again, I am listing a series of topics that I hope to explore, in no particular order.   As always, I invite readers’ input.  Is there ...

What you got in that fanny pack?? So many teachers at my school ROCK and work so hard it’s ridiculous. I am constantly impressed and amazed by what my colleagues are able to do with children and learn so much from the creative ways they work with their students. HOWEVER, (and you knew this was coming) there remain the few, lazy SOBs who make me ...

    One of my more unpleasant experiences with student dishonesty began when I had given a content test on Dickens’ Great Expectations.  It was always my practice either not to count the test or give a makeup assignment if an absentee had a legitimate reason for missing a test.  One such student told me that he had had a ...

Just as Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, in her seminal work, On Death and Dying, identified 5 stages of grief that dying people experience (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance), I found that there were corresponding levels experienced by those caught in plagiarism:   Denial – the student initially responded with wide-eyed innocence, ...

  It is no secret amongst teachers that the success or failure of a school rests largely with its principal.  Not only are principals responsible for implementing and administering curriculum, meeting parents, and attending a myriad of meetings, but also, perhaps most importantly, they set the tone and climate of the school.  It is ...