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The Eight Elementary Personality Types: An Introduction
Focusing on personality type in lesson planning increases classroom engagement and learning.
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Create the Habit of Reflective Writing
Developing the habit of reflective writing can help you analyze, organize, and improve your teaching.
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Less is More: How to Write a Six-Word Memoir like Ernest Hemingway
Follow Ernest Hemingway's lead and lead and teach your pupils to write their own six-word memoir!
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Part Two: A Truly Inspirational Book List for Teachers
The second article of my two-part series on terrific books for teachers.
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Play with Powerful Poetry
Use stations to teach skills relevant to the Common Core and tap into individual creativity.
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Reel in Learning with Reptiles
Whether it’s all about a Jackson Chameleon or a North American Bearded Lizard, learners will be eager to embark on informational text with reptiles.
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Batter Up! Rediscover the Poem "Casey at the Bat"
The baseball themed poem, "Casey at the Bat" is a great summertime focus for reading and writing.
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Get Everybody Reading This Summer!
Continue building literacy skills this summer to ensure that your kids won’t become susceptible to the summer slip!
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Project-Based Learning & Leading Through the 16 Habits of Mind
Blending Costa & Kallick's 16 Habits of Mind, personality type, and project-based learning in your classroom.
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Make it a Hemingway Day
It’s always a good time to have your class read the works of this Nobel Prize recipient.
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Part One: A Truly Inspirational Book List For Teachers
This book is not short on inspiration or terrific, practical ideas and techniques you can implement in your classroom.
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Playing with Prepositions of Place
Transform the way you teach prepositions of place with Harry the Hiker, the age-friendly, easy-to-understand model.
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A Quest for Author Importance
Class members discover information about an author through a WebQuest and a brochure project.
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Three Easy Steps to Help Your Pupils Avoid the Summer Slide
By engaging parents in their kids’ learning over the summer, you can help make sure your pupils kick the summer slide to the curb.
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Summer Reading to Get Teens Thinking
While summer reading usually involves entertaining fluff, here is a list of books that are thought-provoking, unique, and entertaining.
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Celebrate Independence Days Around the World
Discover how other countries remember their fight for independence and how their celebrations compare to typical American-style revelries
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Eight Ways to Celebrate Fruit
Activities designed to incorporate the study of fruit into your classroom during National Fruit and Vegetable Month.
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Engineering Lessons Adapted for Special Education
Modifying engineering lessons from NASA makes them accessible to a wider variety of learners.
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Instill Inherent Reading Strategies
Marking the text can help transform novice readers into experts and enrich the reading experience
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Closing Up Shop: the End of the School Year
How to say goodbye, stay organized, and handle stress as the school year comes to a close.
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Study Skills Increase Success in High School Mathematics
Although your pupils are older, they must be taught how to effectively learn and retain mathematics.
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Solar System
Explore the solar system in detail, from it's origins to its components. Visual data gathered by actual space missions has been used to create the images and animations on each page of this stellar electronic book about the solar...
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Hometown Travel Journalism
Steinbeck’s witty memoir, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America,” inspires kids to investigate their neighborhoods as local travel journalists.
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Not All Classrooms Are Created Equal
Insights as to why a certain instructional techniques may work, or not work, for every school or every classroom.