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Volume 2, Issue 20
October 06, 2008

Eric Baylin's Songs to Brighten a Teacher's Day
Oops! Lunch Is Over
This song is dedicated to those few precious pressure-releasing moments in the faculty lounge. “Oops! I have to run. My class is waiting."
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/baylin/baylin035.shtml

Dr. Fred Jones: Tools for Teaching
Adding Motivation to Mastery
The question underlying the topic of motivation in the student's mind is, "Why should I?" Learn how the right incentives can motivate your students.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones007.shtml

Escaping the Paper-Grading Trap
The more adept you become at building work check into teaching, the more responsibility students take for quality control, and the more your evenings are freed up for lesson planning.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones008.shtml

Ask Dr. Shore About...
The Unmotivated Student
When working with an unmotivated student, you first have to convince him that he can be successful, and then you must figure out how to capture his interest.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore060.shtml

A Student Who Stutters
Dear Dr. Shore, I teach eighth-grade English and a boy in my class has a pronounced stutter. I want to help make him comfortable, but I'm afraid of making him more self-conscious. What do you suggest?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/shore/shore084.shtml

Angela Powell: Getting It Together
Create a Conference-Form Folder
Keep track of conferences with a conference-form folder.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/organization/organization008.shtml

Store Manipulatives for Efficiency
Keep frequently-used manipulatives and class sets of materials in communal bins.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/organization/organization009.shtml

Each week, Education World spotlights books of interest to educators. This week, read a brief summary of two more of our "top 50 books for educators."

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
This useful book by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis takes as its first chapter title and as its philosophy, "reading is thinking," and builds upon that fundamental realization beautifully. The book, however, is not a simple collection of tips for teaching reading, but really a marriage of practical suggestions and an underlying model for how students learn to read better and, importantly, how to think more effectively.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.

The Psychology of the Child
An essential book in the history of educational theory, this is a great introduction to the work of Jean Piaget. First published in French in 1966, this book lays out Piaget's six stages of sensory-motor intelligence and goes on to build upon that foundation a schema that tries to encompass the development of cognitive abilities right up to adulthood. Surprisingly brief and readable, this is one of those books every education library should contain.
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Cathy Puett Miller: A Four-Part Series on Vocabulary Instruction
Part 3: The Wonderful World of Words
Incidental vocabulary learning requires support every day of the school year. The surest way to include incidental learning is to plan for it.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller038.shtml

Part 4: Building on the Power of Incidental Learning
Researchers Nagy and Scott point to three characteristics of word knowledge critical to understanding incidental learning and vocabulary instruction. They are…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/miller/miller039.shtml

Reader's Theater
Victor's Victuals
An encounter with a lunchtime bully leads a boy to join a crusade against hunger. But can Victor's new perspective on hunger turn Bull around too?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/ReadersTheater/ReadersTheater023.shtml
Dancing With the Nursery Rhyme Stars
Popular nursery rhyme characters face off in the final round of a dance contest as contestants vie for a pot of gold.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/ReadersTheater/ReadersTheater008.shtml

Reading Feature
Lit Tips for Teachers
A handful of suggestions for teachers who are looking for new activities to get students more involved in reading and writing at home.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr130.shtml

Best Books for Teaching About…
Each week, Education World presents our Editors’ Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own.
Best Books for Teaching About...
Explorers
Communities and Community Helpers
http://www.educationworld.com/a_bestbooks/archives/students.shtml

Total Reader
How Cool Is That!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev149.shtml

Strategies of the Week
Character Education
Read about the importance of teaching character education and learn about some of the programs schools are using.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy048.shtml
Visualization
A simple technique -- visualization -- can help transform students from passive to active readers while improving their reading comprehension.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy037.shtml

Math Features
Get Real! Math in Everyday Life
How many times have your students asked "When are we ever going to use this in real life?" Discover more than a dozen answers -- great Web sites for teaching real world math.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr148.shtml

Middle School Math
Lessons and activities that are interesting, fun, and instructionally valid -- perfect for use at the middle school level.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/sites/sites088.shtml

Math Mnemonics
Greater Than or Less Than?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/mnemonics/mnemonics008.shtml
Writing Numerals
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/mnemonics/mnemonics009.shtml

From the Writing Center
Cause-and-Effect Writing Challenges Students
Cause-and-effect is both a way of thinking and a format for writing. Read what three experienced teachers have to say about this teaching approach.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr376.shtml
Kids Can W.R.I.T.E. (Write, Revise, Inform, Think, and Edit)
One key to better writing is better writing assignments -- and the Internet has them! Let's tour a few of the finest writing activities the Web has to offer.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson126.shtml

Family Writers' Workshop
Donna Sacco’s students and their parents blossom during family writing class.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature127.shtml

Writing Lessons
Ten Prompts for Student Writing
Ten prompts for engaging writing assignments. Take your pick! (Grades 3-8)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp249-03.shtml
Headline News
Create simple stories using words cut from newspaper headlines. (Grades 3-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2174.shtml

It's My Business
If you could open a business of your own…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug073.shtml
Not Music to My Ears
I like all kinds of music except...
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/writing_bug/writingbug072.shtml

Featured Articles
Learning Geography Through Email
An email activity you can use to teach geography to your students -- and their parents.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev019.shtml

Teaching Citizenship's Five Themes
Grade-specific activities to help develop K-6 students' understanding of the five themes of citizenship -- honesty, compassion, respect, responsibility, and courage.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr008.shtml

Fifty Great Things About Middle Schoolers!
Why do middle school teachers love what they do? Here, in honor of October, the Month of the Young Adolescent, are the top fifty reasons.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr097.shtml

Tips Library
Classroom Management: Starting the Year Off Right
Behavior Management: Attendance, Reflection, Character Education
Motivating Kids: Give Them a Choice
Book Report Makeover: Once Upon a Timeline
Homework Tips:On the Installment Plan
Best Idea: Up Their Organization
Testing Tips: Testing! Testing!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/management_tips/management_tips009.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/behaviortips/behaviortips009.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/motivation/motivation009.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bookreport/bookreport009.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homeworktips/homeworktips009.shtml
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Carlton Ashby's The Power Is in You
Making Connections Is Key
At our school, we spend a great deal of time "speaking life" to our children by expressing life's possibilities through positive thoughts, words, and relationships. We strive every day to create an environment that enables students to think big and dream big.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/ashby/ashby002.shtml

Education Humor With Regina Barreca
Why We All Need to Appreciate the Gravity of Transitions
When something terrifies you to the bottoms of your socks, it’s difficult to regard the experience as a privilege. One of the best kids I’ve ever met just recently started college and she’s scared.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/columnists/barreca/barreca033.shtml

Mr. Ivan: The Principal Poet
Geography
My teacher said Geography
is about where stuff is at.
Like towns and lakes and mountains
and places that are flat…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/ivan/ivan006.shtml

Miguel Guhlin: The IT Crowd
Web Site Nirvana?
Depending on your level of expertise, you can jump into online publishing with your own district-supported content management system. Taking on the work of a content management system requires three things….
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/guhlin/guhlin002.shtml

Nancy Willard: Cyber Savvy
Youth Risk Online: Foundational Concerns
Advertising lures, privacy concerns, media literacy, stranger danger; Nancy Willard addresses some foundational concerns that cut across many online risks.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/willard/willard002.shtml

Pete Hall's Always Strive To Be a Better You!
Reviving the American Dream
Pete Hall is wondering if the American Dream is dying. "As educators, we can teach -- through some direct instruction and intentional role-modeling -- what the American Dream means," he says. Will you be joining Pete in reviving the American Dream this year?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/hall/hall018.shtml

Paul Young's Young @ Heart
The No-Hat Rule
Would you agree that manners and respect for decorum are values that are heading the way of the horse and buggy? Paul Young says a return to teaching manners in school must start at the top.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/young/young010.shtml

Alma Row's Gadgets of the Week
LEGO Digital Designer
"Build" with LEGOs on the computer and then save the picture or project to your PC.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/gadget/gadget007.shtml
Convert Tube
Save your favorite online videos to your PC, iPod, PSP, or mobile.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/gadget/gadget008.shtml

Practical Advice for Coping With Difficult Kids, Parents
You've all experienced them -- the student or parent who not only pushes your buttons but leans on them. Practical strategies for dealing with difficult people.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin532.shtml

Education World’s School-Wide Discipline Series
Discipline With Dignity Stresses Positive Motivation
Threats and rewards may seem to change a student's behavior, but do they last? Discover how to create positive motivators so kids take responsibility for their own behavior.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin534.shtml

Starr Points
It's Not What You Say … It's How You Say It
As conference time once again approaches, Education World offers 20 favorite phrases from the Dictionary of Education Euphemisms.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/starr/starr225.shtml

Templates of the Week
Morning Moments Skill Organization Chart
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/template_morningmoments_tic.pdf
Homework Assignment Sheet (Secondary)
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/has_oct2002.doc

Election 2008
The primaries and the political conventions are behind us now. The election campaign and the vote lie ahead. The lessons in this Education World resource are aimed at helping teachers capitalize on this once-every-four-years "teachable moment." Included: Lessons for teaching about the Electoral College and the importance of voting; a unique approach to staging a classroom debate about election issues; plus dozens more lesson ideas for teaching about the 2008 elections.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/election.shtml

Techtorials of the Week
Create Student Portfolios With Hyperlinks
Learn what electronic portfolios are, how to create them, and how to use them in your professional career and in your classroom.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial044.shtml
Accessibility Resources for Special Students
Learn about the free accessibility tools found on most computers and about the online resources available for students with special needs.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial016.shtml

School Doodle
Meeting the Tree the Apple fell From
http://www.educationworld.com/a_issues/school_doodles/school_doodles16.shtml

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