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Higher Education: Software Training, Support, and Course Technology Integration Tools. Really Good Stuff - Teacher Supplies for Today's Classroom. Wikispaces. Romeo and Juliet. No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today. Table of Contents Characters Prologue. Purdue OWL. Coming Soon: A new look for our same great content!

We're working hard this summer on a redesign of the Purdue OWL. Worry not! SurveyMonkey : logiciel gratuit de sondage en ligne et de questionnaire. Elementary Teacher Resources on Pinterest. Teaching Materials for elementary school teachers in grades K-6, including school supplies, publishers of educational booksand products resources. Lakeshore Learning. Elementary Teacher Resources, Get The Teaching Resource You Need. Unique Teaching Resources: Lesson Plans, Book Report Projects, Bulletin Board Displays. Understanding Science: An overview. To understand what science is, just look around you.

Understanding Science: An overview

What do you see? Perhaps, your hand on the mouse, a computer screen, papers, ballpoint pens, the family cat, the sun shining through the window …. Science is, in one sense, our knowledge of all that — all the stuff that is in the universe: from the tiniest subatomic particles in a single atom of the metal in your computer's circuits, to the nuclear reactions that formed the immense ball of gas that is our sun, to the complex chemical interactions and electrical fluctuations within your own body that allow you to read and understand these words.

But just as importantly, science is also a reliable process by which we learn about all that stuff in the universe. However, science is different from many other ways of learning because of the way it is done. Interactive whiteboards - Collaborative multi touch learning technology for education. Enliven teaching and learning with our range of interactive whiteboard systems.

Interactive whiteboards - Collaborative multi touch learning technology for education

Designed to focus attention and provide a platform to boost the interactivity of your lessons, ActivBoard interactive whiteboards and Promethean's teaching software provide the essential building blocks for any digitally connected classroom. Because each classroom is unique, Promethean ActivBoard Systems are available in a wide variety of configurations, enabling you to tailor the right solution to accommodate your needs. Which is the right ActivBoard for you? Precise, cost effective, adaptableActivBoard 100 is a great starting place for those looking for a flexible entry-level interactive whiteboard.

It's a classroom-tough interactive display that features ActivInspire Personal Edition software and is easy to enhance as your needs change. TeachersPayTeachers.com - An Open Marketplace for Original Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Resources. Teacher Prep and Better Resources: How to Reach Urban Students  Students in urban schools tend to have stereotypes attached to them.

Teacher Prep and Better Resources: How to Reach Urban Students 

Rather than see these students as individual learners, many urban kids and their schools are often thrown into the "lost cause" category. Problems like deteriorating buildings and overcrowding often become too overwhelming for reformers. As always, before we can implement change, we need to fully understand the problem. Are urban schools lost causes? In a 2009 article in the Harvard Political Review, writers Tiffany Wen and Jyoti Jasrasaria discuss the "myths of urban education. " Studies have found a correlation between overcrowding and lower math and reading scores.

Are we too quick to remove students? Removal from school as a disciplinary measure, while potentially the easiest short-term solution, feeds the school-to-prison cycle that is built primarily in urban schools. Extreme Weather on Earth and Other Planets. Kindergarten Math Activities. Laura Candler's Teaching Resources - Free Printables and Lesson Ideas for Teachers! Early Childhood Center - Teaching Philosophy. Teaching Philosophy How children learn and the theoretical foundation At the BMCC Early Childhood Center, we view our early childhood classrooms as a microcosm of a learning community.

Early Childhood Center - Teaching Philosophy

Our children are viewed as members of a peer group. As we begin to think about 'learning through play', the emergent curriculum is part of the early childhood methodology we utilize to foster learning in children. Our curriculum is diverse from classroom to classroom, from age group to age group, yet planned to reflect the Centers philosophy and goals for children. Early Childhood Center - Teaching Philosophy. UNICEF in action. Early Childhood Development interventions cut across all UNICEF programme areas.

UNICEF in action

Ensuring that children develop to their full potential requires interventions in programmes for child survival and development, education, HIV/AIDS, child protection, and social policy and partnerships. For example, UNICEF’s work to support community and family care practices that impact the lives of young children not only use health and nutrition interventions but also add early stimulation and interaction. Earlychildhood NEWS - About US & Contact Information. Early Childhood Ohio - Education Expansion Funding 2014-2015. Ohio's General Assembly increased the state's investment in high–quality early learning preschool services when the governor signed into law House Bill 59.

Early Childhood Ohio - Education Expansion Funding 2014-2015

For Fiscal Year 2015, this allocated an additional $12 million to the early childhood education program. This program will help an additional 2,940 children receive high–quality preschool during the 2014–2015 academic school year. The new funds for Fiscal Year 2015 will be offered to existing high–quality early learning programs within high–needs areas of the state who can serve children.