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Oklahoma Tornado And Stude ...May 20, 2013, a ferocious tornado cut a 17-mile path of destruction through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. Among the lives lost were seven students from Plaza Towers Elementary School. As ma ... read more The Best Commencement Spee ...The end-of-year rituals are coming, from school picnics to graduations, and like every year, many feelings arise and many words are said to send off students to the next level of life. Thi ... read more |
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End-of-Year Haiku Contest 2013
April 29, 2013 - 04:54 pmThe 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? If you like writing, you may enjoy writing ...
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Education World Community Enhances Search Tool ...
April 29, 2013 - 04:32 pmMERIDEN, CT.— Education World has updated its teacher collaboration platform, the Education World Community, to make searching for educator-shared content easier and more precise. The Education World Community provides a way ...
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Catchup Math: NEW Assignments Tool
April 25, 2013 - 06:47 pmA popular Web-based math instruction platform has announced a brand-new feature. Catchup Math, which diagnoses and fills in learning gaps for students in middle school through college, now lets teachers assign math homework th ...
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Finally a Garden
April 24, 2013 - 09:18 pmThis has been a busy week for my class. Last week, we began our plant study. As I mentioned in my last post, I started the unit by having my students brainstorm what they knew about plants. We created this chart to track our learning. &nb ...
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The Cicadas are Coming!
April 23, 2013 - 01:45 pmCicadas to Soon Arrive! They're coming....After 17 years, cicadas are about to return. From states along the eastern coast, billions and billions of the insects will soon be making an appearance. The cicada,a relative of the katydi ...
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Differentiate Through PBL
April 22, 2013 - 05:35 pmDuring my last blog, I shared a story about how problem-based learning was used to challenge one of my students. In this post, I want to outline the steps that have personally helped me implement this method. First, you have to find the r ...
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The sources of lateness
April 22, 2013 - 01:50 pmYesterday evening, three students who were late for class were caught on the spot by the student council, as a result, 1.5 scores were deducted from my class’s total points. Seeing this, I called one of cadres of my class: ”tell Shenb ...
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Top 5 Benefits You Are Sure to Have If Your Ed ...
April 22, 2013 - 11:30 amWhen I was in school, going to classes was a big chore for me. I had to get up at an impossibly early hour and be at school by 7:45 am to attend the morning assembly. The first two classes always felt unbearably long while I tried my best not ...
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Teaching Reading incorrectly Creates Learning ...
April 20, 2013 - 02:27 amThe middle class and rich are informed or powerful enough to avoid faulty learning traps; or are they? Considering America’s disappointing world-wide reading rankings this is not a fact today, and it certai ...
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Tarantula Expert-Career Survey for Kids
April 20, 2013 - 12:25 amI've posted many different career surveys(they are all free)...check them out at my website for teachers/young people at this link:http://gailhennessey.com/index.shtml?careers.html Here is the latest posting... Peter Kirk, ...
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