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Weekly Reader: Curriculum-Rich Resources for Teachers

Weekly Reader: Curriculum-Rich Resources for Teachers

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The Ultimate Guide To Using iPads In The Classroom How Students Benefit From Using Social Media 14.60K Views 0 Likes A lot of criticism has been leveled at social media and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information, as well as how distracting it can be. Faces: A World Cultures magazine for kids ages 9-14 Product Description World Cultures for grades 5-9 Your world, your voice, your Faces. Faces takes readers where no other publication goes. Around the world and back, young readers get an honest and unbiased view of how people in other countries and world regions live. From the clothes they wear to the foods they eat, readers get a glimpse into the way their peers live.

Constructivism (learning theory) Jean Piaget: founder of Constructivism In past centuries, constructivist ideas were not widely valued due to the perception that children's play was seen as aimless and of little importance. Jean Piaget did not agree with these traditional views, however. He saw play as an important and necessary part of the student's cognitive development and provided scientific evidence for his views.

whyteboard - A simple whiteboard and PDF annotator Features Draw on top of PDF and PostScript documents using ImageMagick Draw with common tools such as a pen, rectangle, ellipse, text, polygon, circle Draw shapes that can be moved, resized and recoloured Your drawing history is stored, allowing you to replay it Tabbed painting, with each sheet having its own unlimited undo and redo operations Embed as many audio and video files into the canvas as you wish Live-updating thumbnails for each sheet Sheets that are closed can also be undone, restoring its data Note controls, similar to virtual, editable Post-It Notes A live-updating, resizable canvas that stretches to whatever size you want Paste and drag-and-drop text/images Available in mutliple languages (Italian, Spanish, Russian, Galician, German, French, Dutch, Welsh, and more) Installation Windows - download the .exes to either install Whyteboard or run it "stand-alone"

Dig: A Archaeology magazine for kids ages 9-14 Archaeology & History for grades 5-9 Travel into the past with Dig as archaeologists and historians explore the mysteries of ancient civilizations. Full of exclusive scoops and photos seen nowhere else, each issue features articles about the latest archaeological discoveries, on-site reports from important digs, and special sections done in partnership with leading museums. What Does "Technology Integration" Mean? One reason why I love blogging is the chance to get a variety of responses to my ideas and thoughts. A reader of my last post commented: "This article describes how to help children learn to use an unfamiliar computer program.

6 Alternatives To Bullet Lists Sharebar Bullets make lists of important points easy to read. When those near-perfect little circles are vertically aligned, readers can quickly process the text. Calliope: A World History magazine for kids ages 9-14 When gold was found at Sutter`s Mill by James W. Marshall, events were set into motion that were to greatly change the California of the 1840`s and far beyond. See the routes taken by hopeful Easterners and immigrants to arrive at the gold fields by land and by sea. Examine a map to learn the most famous sites of the Gold Rush era. Gaby Rodriguez, Toppenish High School, Fakes 6-Month Pregnancy For Senior Project TOPPENISH, Wash. — When Gaby Rodriguez took off her fake baby belly and revealed to her classmates that for months they had been part of an elaborate social experiment, she did more than force members of her community to examine how they treat pregnant teens – she got the attention of the nation. The Yakima Herald-Republic detailed the experience of the 17-year-old Rodriguez in a story Wednesday that caught the attention of shows like "Good Morning America" and resonated with viewers of popular teen mom reality shows. School officials said they and Rodriguez would have no more comment until she returns from a class trip next week. But her action thrust her into a growing conversation. The profile of teen moms has changed in recent years.

IEP Goal Bank This IEP GOAL BANK is the place where you can "deposit" your own IEP goals/objectives and "withdraw" the goals/objectives contributed by others. Few things cause more angst in our profession than writing IEP goals/objectives! One way to simplify the process is to use the template below. If all sections of this template are filled in, then your goal/objective is measurable.

Teacher Magazine: Community Forums I think the question here is less about whether or not master's degrees have a strict causal effect on teaching and learning and more about whether or not public schools should have lock-step pay increases (for seniority or degrees earned). Or, lockstep teaching assignments (5 or 6 classes with a prep, a study hall, and a 25 minute lunch). If I, as a teacher, can make a strong case that my degree in nursing will help students - for example, by creating an interdisciplinary courses that combine my practical medical knowledge with fields of biology and mathematic, or ethics and literature - why should I not be compensated for that?

The Travelling Teachers: Fakebook - let's have fun with biographies This is a very interesting tool to study biographies in a different way. With Fakebook you can invent a profile of any historical or fictional character. Your result will be a Facebook-like page!You can add images, links, videos, "friends", comments and "likes"!

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