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Google Image Slideshow - Online Slideshows from Search Results Writing Practice Worksheets "What wonderful worksheets! Our students really like answering your questions and prompts. Thanks for these!" -- Anika K., Salem, WV. 08/19/12 Like these materials? Show your support by liking us on Facebook... While we love logic and vocabulary, we understand that writing is paramount: chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent. Below you'll find our writing practice worksheets for students to use to practice writing. COPYRIGHT NOTICE: The below publications contain copyrighted work to be used by teachers in school or at home. Finish the Story Writing Worksheets In these writing practice worksheets, students practice both reading and writing in these exercises. Question Response Writing Worksheets In these writing practice worksheets, students practice reading and writing in these exercises. Practical Writing Worksheets In these writing practice worksheets, students practice reading and practical writing. Argumentative Writing Worksheets Writing Worksheets Using Precise Language

A free school under a bridge in India Altaf Qadri / AP Founder of a free school for slum children Rajesh Kumar Sharma, second from right, and Laxmi Chandra, right, write on black boards, painted on a building wall, at a free school run under a metro bridge in New Delhi, India. At least 30 children living in the nearby slums have been receiving free education from this school for the last three years. Related content: Rajesh Kumar Sharma, teach Somnath, an underprivileged Indian slum child at the school. Students help to keep the school clean. 18 different ways to Tie a Necktie How to Make an Interactive Network Visualization Networks! They are all around us. The universe is filled with systems and structures that can be organized as networks. Recently, we have seen them used to convict criminals, visualize friendships, and even to describe cereal ingredient combinations. In this tutorial, we will focus on creating an interactive network visualization that will allow us to get details about the nodes in the network, rearrange the network into different layouts, and sort, filter, and search through our data. In this example, each node is a song. Try out the visualization on different songs to see how the different layouts and filters look with the different graphs. Technology This visualization is a JavaScript based web application written using the powerful D3 visualization library. jQuery is also used for some DOM element manipulation. Quick CoffeeScript Notes Functions First and foremost, This is what a function looks like: So the input parameters are inside the parentheses. Indentation matters Setting Up Data

Son of Citation Machine Make sure that titles in APA citations are properly capitalized. Capitalize only the first letter of the first word or any proper nouns. Notes about MLA Style: MLA is a style of referencing, primarily used in humanities, especially in the writing of language and literature. MLA Style Overview Works Cited lists are generally included in research to allow readers to locate sources themselves. Last name, First name Middle Initial. Citations are listed in alphabetical order by the author's last name.If there are multiple sources by the same author, citations are listed in alphabetical order by the title of the work.According to the MLA Handbook, a URL is not required for web sources. MLA Citations for Books with One Author Structure: Last, First M. Example: Collins, Suzanne.The Hunger Games. Don’t forget, Citation Machine allows you to generate MLA citations for books quickly and accurately. MLA Citations for Books with Two or More Authors Last, First, M., and First M. Example: Last, First, M.

Poorest pupils 'weaker at maths' 22 November 2012Last updated at 22:12 ET The scheme focussed on pupils aged six and seven The poorest children are twice as likely to struggle at maths early on at primary school, research suggests. But a study found a short but intense tutoring scheme enables struggling children to make strong gains. The report on 47,237 children with weak numeracy levels in England's Every Child Counts scheme found 73% went on to meet average levels. The tutoring involved half an hour of daily tuition over three months. The scheme was originally managed and funded, directly, by the Department for Education. It is now run by Edge Hill University and has developed into two schemes, Numbers Count and 1stClass@Number. Instead of being automatically offered to schools, head teachers now decide whether they want to buy it in as a means of helping their pupils. 'Sustained progress' They were twice as likely to be poor pupils on free schools meals and two and half times more likely to have special educational needs.

30 Different Ways To Tie A Tie Knot Here is a list of many different ways to tie a tie, for every and any occasion, many of which you probably never knew existed. We’ve gathered 30 of the best tie knots ever created by mankind to give you just the edge you need to look your best at all times. Each tie knot has been judged on four different factors: aesthetics, symmetry, difficulty, and knot size. You can make a statement with these knots any day of the week or simply use them to look elegant and stylish during those special events where you really need to stand out. Either way, you’ll practically be a forefather of men’s fashion no matter which style you choose. There is no doubt that this knot is one of a kind. This beautiful knot has a three-way symmetry and resembles the Celtic Triquetra. An augmentation of the Prince Albert, adding a third turning of the active end. This awesome work of tie artistry is shaped in the form of a fishbone, hence the name. Looking to get in touch with your romantic side?

Voices from the iTDi Community 2 – Victor Hugo Victor Hugo Rojas B. is a teacher trainer and educator with more than 26 years of experience. He is associate professor of the Didactics of TEFL at U.N.E. He currently lives and works in Lima, Peru. What are you passionate about, Victor Hugo? I am really an ambitious and critical educator who tries to be outstanding. I am also passionate about integrating technologies in teacher training and teacher development courses. How and why did you become a teacher? I think that I am a born teacher. When I was a child and teenager, I used to play teacher with my brother, sister and cousins. What are you most interested in right now, Victor Hugo? Actually, I am most interested in becoming an online mentor of novice and experienced English teachers worldwide. What things do you do to help you get better at being a teacher? I think learning is personal decision. In addition, I am so grateful to all my virtual mentors. What’s the biggest challenge you face as a teacher?

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STEM Students Must Be Taught to Fail Elizabeth Gerber is a public voices fellow with the OpEd Project and the Breed junior chair of design in the McCormick School of Engineering and School of Communication at Northwestern University. She is the founder of Design for America. Within minutes of losing the presidential election, the Republican party was back on its feet, and preparing for the 2014 election cycle. In that way they were like most competitors. As a mechanical engineering professor at Northwestern University, I believe that that's precisely what we should be teaching our students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects: how to fail. [Check out the U.S. But STEM educators are teaching our students the opposite. Here's one of the critical reasons STEM educators don't teach falling: because we ourselves are out of practice. [See a collection of political cartoons on the economy.] Of course, the football metaphor fails at a certain point. So what shall we do?

Not All Bad Ideas Are Created Equal Some say ideas are everything. Others say ideas are cheap. David Lynch says ideas are fish. David McCandless of Information Is Beautiful took a closer look and tried to chart "a taxonomy of ideas" of a two-axis graph (much like New York magazine’s popular "Approval Matrix"). Any idea you’ve ever had should fit somewhere in these four quadrants. The upper right zone is the promised land, the intersection of "functional" and "well-structured" ideas where everything from "genius" to "interesting" lies. What the chart doesn’t capture, of course, is that ideas are motile, evolving creatures. McCandless’s chart is a work in progress, an idea itself. [via Information Is Beautiful; top image: Margo Harrison/Shutterstock]

Please Stop Using the Phrase 'Achievement Gap' | Education on GOOD Recently, I've been more and more troubled with the phrase "achievement gap." I was a 1999 Teach For America corps member and recently, in my occasional work with the organization, I've begun to share my concerns about what this concept suggests. Because of America's racial history and legacy, the cross-racial comparison that holds up white student achievement as the universally standard goal is problematic. Further, the term "achievement gap" is inaccurate because it blames the historically marginalized, under-served victims of poor schooling and holds whiteness and wealth as models of excellence. As a critical race theorist who understands that, in the United States, whiteness is viewed as precious property, this conceptualization of the so-called achievement gap does not surprise me. In Beloved, Toni Morrison taught us that usually "definitions belong to the definers—not the defined." Her language was indicative of her regional, cultural, and historical memory. Indeed!

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