Teaching Resources & Products

Teaching Tip Tuesday – Customized Plan Book/Grade Book

June 19, 2012

For a long time I tried to use commercially produced plan books and grade books, but they frustrated me because they weren’t set up in a way that worked for me. Then one day I realized that I could make my own plan book and grade book and completely tailor them to my specific needs. [...]

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Neighborhood Book Clubs: Keeping Our Kids Sharp

June 7, 2012

With summer’s glorious beating down on us, both  kids and parents fix their eyes upon the calendar. Kids counting the days of unending fun, and parents wondering how to include both good times and good learning throughout long, summer days. The answer to making memories, building community, and extending learning? A kid-centered book club. Last [...]

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Summer Tutoring Tips for Teachers

May 22, 2012

With the school year ending, many of you may want to use your free time tutoring over the summer. Yet it’s difficult to know how much to charge or what average prices are by city. The following are several pointers and statistics to guide you, so that you can jump in ready and prepared at [...]

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Using Audio Recording Technology

April 23, 2012

Looking for a way to spice up your lessons with some tech-related fun? One of the easiest ways to enhance your lesson plans is to incorporate audio recording technology. If you have a computer lab available to your class, each child can access the sound recorder found in the Accessories folder of every Microsoft Windows-run [...]

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Reaching and Teaching the Impoverished Child

April 17, 2012

How many of the students with whom you regularly interact are disorganized, frequently lose papers, bring many reasons why something is missing, don’t do homework, are physically aggressive, like to entertain, only see part of what is on the page, only do part of the assignment, cannot monitor their own behavior, laugh when they are [...]

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Top 10 Teacher Tools for 2012

April 2, 2012

I just got back from attending Ed Expo 2012– a huge convention for teacher store owners where we get to see all of the brand new classroom products that are being introduced this year. As a former teacher, I look forward to this event every single year and can’t wait to get my hands on [...]

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Technology Timesavers for Teachers

March 29, 2012

Teachers today are fortunate to have access to technological tools that make our jobs easier and minimize the paperwork involved in educating our students. I didn’t grow up with computers like today’s students did, but I’m very much on board with becoming more tech savvy and, yes, even accepting help from my students when I [...]

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Energizers!

March 15, 2012
Energizers!

Teaching Tip {And-It’s-Not-Even-a-Tuesday}:  Energizers. Looking for some fresh ideas for classroom energizers?  Need an activity that refocuses your students and provides a fun way to get out some of that extra energy that seems to be coming between them and their math problems? Consider the following several ideas from an excellent resource called Responsive Classroom. [...]

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Using Smart Phones in the Elementary Classroom

March 13, 2012
Using Smart Phones in the Elementary Classroom

Teaching Tip:  Use Smart Phones. We all know that technology continues to creep into our classrooms more and more often these days. I know that many teachers are incorporating interactive whiteboards and tablets into their daily lessons. But, I had never thought about bringing smartphones into the classroom until a teacher-friend of mine was telling [...]

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Asking a Question Might Be the Smartest Thing You Do All Day

January 22, 2012

Today’s guest post comes from Dr. Lori Desautels. Lori has just written a book entitled, How May I Serve You? Revelation in Education, and is currently a university supervisor for the Indianapolis Teaching Fellows and Teach for America. With classroom and counseling experience, Lori has a passion for using neuroscience to teach more effectively. She’ll [...]

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