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End-of-Year Haiku Contest ...The end of another academic year approaches, and your friends at EdWorld want to give you a chance to win a $50 gift card to your choice of Starbucks, Target or Amazon. Ready to get creative? & ... read more Education World Community ...MERIDEN, CT.— Education World has updated its teacher collaboration platform, the Education World Community, to make searching for educator-shared content easier and more precise. &n ... read more |
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A Letter to Next Year's Students
May 23, 2013 - 12:24 amAre you running out of steam as the end of the year approaches? I am doing my best to keep up but I am exhausted! The paperwork mountain is growing every day and I think my students honestly have ants in their pants! For the next 2 weeks, I will ...
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Summer Packets
May 21, 2013 - 09:15 pmSummer is right around the corner - woo hoo!!! With that in mind, I started to think about summer packets. Join in on the discussion and share what your summer packets look like here: http://community.educationworld.com/content/preschoolear ...
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Self Contained or Departmentalized Classrooms ...
May 18, 2013 - 08:07 pmSelf Contained or Departmentalized Classrooms for 5th and 6th Grade? For those veteran teachers, you know that the old is often "new" again when it comes to teaching! When I first started teaching back in(yikes...1973), I star ...
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End-Of-Year Haiku Contest: We Have A Winner!
May 16, 2013 - 09:04 pmWe asked educators to send in their best end-of-year haiku poems, and we loved reading them all! Unfortunately, all #EdFun contests must come to an end. It was hard to select a winner (so hard that we couldn't decide until this morning), but ...
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Education is a Common Good: There Should Be No ...
May 16, 2013 - 04:03 pmWhile we live in a market-driven economy, where winning and wealth accumulation are desired outcomes, education advocates on all sides of the political aisle currently assert that public schools are failing our children, especially minorities and ...
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Graphing (by request)
May 16, 2013 - 01:20 amLast month, we studied data collection. I began the unit with a review of sorting and classifying. We spent 3 days sorting objects by their attributes and then moved onto tally marks. I gave the students buckets of shells. The student ...
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Time To Party!
May 16, 2013 - 12:41 amIt’s about that time of the year when I start to think about the end of the year celebration – mainly what songs we will be singing. This year, since I am out of the classroom, my thoughts are all about baby! Very fun but ...
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Trekking up Mt. Everest: 60 Year Anniversary i ...
May 13, 2013 - 10:38 pmIn 1923,George Mallory was asked,”Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest?” HIs response, “Because it’s there.” Learn about Mt. Everest, Nepal and the Yeti with this fun and informative webquest! May 29th,2013(60th anni ...
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Differentiation Through A Science Cluster
May 13, 2013 - 07:25 pmResearch has shown that as much as 40 to 50 percent of traditional classroom material can be eliminated for certain students when it comes to science and other core subjects. That means that these students could essentially start mid-school-y ...
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Educators Unite!
May 11, 2013 - 04:38 pmDo you get tired of taking the blame for the failing educational system? Feel like you are managing behavior problems and not facilitating learning? Ready to throw in the towel? There are many wonderful and innovative programs around the world t ...
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