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|   April 21, 2007 - 05:33 PMHi, It"s towards the end of the year here and I am having an awards ceremony to honor my students and am inviting my parents. I already have several awards templates but am looking for more. I teach first grade and am not good on the computer (meaning I am not comfortable-or I guess you could say not ambitious,) creating my own awards. If anyone has ideas for academic and/or silly /sentimental end of the year awards I would greatly appreciate your wisdom and input and especially your templates. Thanks!!! :) Jen | ||||||||
| April 20, 2007 - 01:10 PM Hi, I"m a student teacher. I am looking for ideas to help me create a classroom that will be interactive. Any ideas please let me know. | ||||||||
| April 15, 2007 - 10:13 PM Hello! I am a Social Studies teacher of all girls school. They are 14 to 16 years old. I"m looking for a collaboration. I would like to start on line learning where in my students will exchange ideas, history of their places and country to other nationalities. I have 160 students. I hope I can hear from anyone interested out there. | ||||||||
| April 15, 2007 - 09:35 PM Hello, I was surfing the web and discovered this site. I am a special education assistant teacher in a moderate class k-2. I am currently pursuing a online master"s degree in special education and my assignment this week is to write a curriculum guide for reading, writing and spelling. The problem is that I have never seen what this looks like and since I am a visual learner, I am having a difficult time of doing this assignment. I would like to know if there are any special education teacher out there who could guide me trhough this process. I would greately appreciate it by Monday April 16th. since my assignment is now overdue. Thank you. | ||||||||
| April 15, 2007 - 01:59 PM HELP!!! I am desparate and completely burned out. I work in an inner city school district in the Hudson Valley that is more like working in the South Bronx. The language and actions in my classroom mimic more of a prison atmosphere with insults, fights, and foul language than a classroom. The administration has pretty much told myself and the other teachers that work with these students (grade 7, 8, & 9), that we are the ones trained in Special Education and we have to deal with it. I am constantly being reminded on a daily basis by the students that I am white and they are black (majority of them). I try and acknowledge what they are saying, but almost daily the students try and tell me that decisions that I make are "because they are black." I am not even through the full school year, and with two months to go I am totally and completly burned out. I do not know how I will make it to June. I am in constant fear that I will loose my job, but I desparately need it. What options do I have? I have to stay, my family depends on me financially. This is also my third position in 3 years, but with only 2 districts. I left this district for a year and thought I was so lucky to be back. The administration has made it completely clear that they will take the word of the students over mine. I had my life threatened and all the students in the class heard it and lied for their classmate. When I "thanked" them for their support and honesty, I was told they were not snitches. HELP!! What should I do. I really need professional advise. | ||||||||
| April 12, 2007 - 05:35 PM Hi everyone, I need some advice on where to begin catering for the needs of one of my students. They have a chronological age of 5.4 and a developmental age of 11 months. We have teacher aid support for 2 thirds of the day. I am not trained in anyway to deal with special needs and am finding it all rather overwhelming. Nothing has been put in place for this child. Can anyone recommend some websites or resources that they have used with success. Where do I start? Cheers. | ||||||||
| April 11, 2007 - 01:43 PM I am enrolled in a children with exceptionalities class and have chose cerebral palsy as my final presentation....I need a couple of ideas for activities plans on awareness of the disability as well as a modification activity...if anybody has any ideas please email me at geridanielle@yahoo.com Thanks in advance! | ||||||||
| April 07, 2007 - 03:41 PM Hello, My subject area is Spanish and I am looking for a behavior strategy to use with my upper grades. Any suggestions? I am soooo glad to have found you!!! | ||||||||
| April 07, 2007 - 06:33 AM I am home schooling a 5th grader who was failing in public school, then private but not because of the teachers but because she will not do the work unless you stand over her. Any ideas on how to get her to do the work? She can do it, she just will not. | ||||||||
| April 05, 2007 - 10:54 AM Hello, I am just about to graduate undergrad and I want to apply for a full-time job and be a full-time grad student, and now I am starting to second guess myself if I can handle both and succeed with flying colors. Any suggestions from people who have done both? | ||||||||
| April 02, 2007 - 10:54 AM I am about to start teaching. I have been wondering what activities i can do inorder to prepare the special needs children for state issued tests. If you have any ideas or activities , please email me! Thanks! | ||||||||
| March 25, 2007 - 05:51 AM This is a great site for teachers who just began to teach, great ideas, and its feel that like having a mentor next to you. Keep up the good work. | ||||||||
| March 22, 2007 - 01:26 PM I am doing a unit on weather with my Kindergarten class. Any ideas for fieldtrips? | ||||||||
| March 20, 2007 - 07:46 PM it"s a great forum for teachers! i still longing for the games. is there anybody can help me to show me any literature about cambridge curriculum or any international curriculum? it would be very grateful with web site also. best regard, indarto | ||||||||
| March 19, 2007 - 10:28 PM Thanks for providing this great site. I have not visited for about 5 years but am certainly passing on the details to my colleagues. I work in the remote Australian Outback, in an Indigenous community, some 250 Kms from the nearest large town. Having access to other professionals via this site is great for keeping in touch with the latest issues and also helps to keep us focused on what we can achieve here. | ||||||||
| March 19, 2007 - 07:43 PM Good morning (it is morning here:)). i"m teaching english for as a foreign language for junior high school student. it would be very greatful if there is somebody share material games for speaking. i have difficulties to encourage them to speak in english. i hope it is easy for them if i use games. best regard, stephanus indarto | ||||||||
| March 17, 2007 - 02:49 AM Hello! I just discovered this wedsite, it"s fantastic. I am a first year teacher from Canada, who is teaching grade 5 in Hong Kong. We are switching to a program, as a school, in which every student has a personal laptop. I am on a mission to find lesson plans and/or software that could help next year. Particularily French, Math and Health. I am hoping for sutff that would keep them moving around rather than siting at their desks. If you have any tips or advice I would greatly appreciate it! | ||||||||
| March 16, 2007 - 01:59 PM I"m looking for some ideas for a teacher retirement party. I"d love to hear what ideas are "out there" that worked well and were fun. I"d love to take a familiar song and change the words to relate to the teacher retiring from our school this year. Any suggestions??? thanks Sue | ||||||||
| March 16, 2007 - 12:03 PM Hi everyone there teacking english.I"m looking for friends of ELT teachers to contact and share ideas or lesson plans due to the multiple intelligences .I"m really very late to learn and practice the way of MI in my classes.I like to chat and make friends of other countries and nations. | ||||||||
| March 16, 2007 - 12:04 AM It"s nice to find a forum where educators can converge. As of me, i am currently in experimentation of pedagogy that will work so well in countries with very young educational history like in pacific areas. i hope to share it soon with anyone. | ||||||||
| March 11, 2007 - 06:15 PM I am getting resistance to changing a course schedule to 6 hours/one day per week for 17 weeks from what has traditionally been taught 3 hours/four days per week for 8 weeks. Is anyone aware of any research that has been done that would support this change? | ||||||||
| March 11, 2007 - 04:16 PM I am a new teacher and am planning to use the Sarah, Plain and Tall series in my class, does anyone have any lessons and/or teacher"s guides to go with these books? Email me anything you can! Thanks so much!!! | ||||||||
| March 10, 2007 - 05:33 AM would like to re-sell personal purchases used in teaching...have lot of folk dancing records, 45, 78, 33 rpm, difficult to get today but great for music classes, elementary, special units, physical education...email for more info | ||||||||
| March 09, 2007 - 07:18 PM I am a new teacher and currently working in a special ed unit covering grades 3-6 and prep. i am looking for some social skills games and something to build skills in the area of ignoring others in class. Any ideas would be warmly welcomed. thanks. | ||||||||
| March 07, 2007 - 03:07 PM Hello teachers, I have this insane idea to quit my lucrative job and teach school- too late I did it... Now as I work toward a college degree in education I really want to discover how I can be good at this new occupation. Please help, what are the platinum rules of teaching? | ||||||||
| March 06, 2007 - 10:58 AM Hi everyone. I am in the midst of my student teachign and will need to complete a unit plan to graduate. This unit needs to be an intergrated unit and will be done in an 8th grade social studies classroom. I am completly comfortable with my topic, which is the late 19th to early 20th century US history, specifically the indians, the expansion of the railroads and such. I am trying to determine some possible ideas on how to make the unit intergrated. I am looking for art, music, PE, health lessons or ideas that i can incorpate into this lesson. I will be teaching the lesson over a 2 to 3 week period. Any suggestions would be fantastic. Thanks. | ||||||||
| March 05, 2007 - 03:17 PM Hi everyone! This is a great site. I didn"t know that theres a site that teacher can help other teachers. As for me, this is going to be a 5th year for me to be a SPED teacher in the elementary. But this is my first time seeing this site. But let you all know that I will try my best to use this ideas that is in here to serve my special need students. And if its working, I will come back to you guys. Thanks alot for the help. | ||||||||
| March 05, 2007 - 10:59 AM We would really appreciate your advice and thoughts about how children with low self esteem react in your classroom towards learning? Please share your experience if you have any. Thank you from www.enlightenminds.org | ||||||||
| March 01, 2007 - 10:08 AM I"m a new SPED teacher at my high school. I feel I could be doing more. The schedule at the school has me visiting many differents classrooms throughout the week. So I have very little time to bond with the students. Also, everyone keeps mistaking me for a student (I wear collar shirts and dress pants and make up). What can I do to seem more mature? | ||||||||
| February 28, 2007 - 07:42 PM I would like ideas/ lessons plans for a Texas unit on a Kindergarten level.3692 | ||||||||
| February 28, 2007 - 04:39 PM I am in my last year of school, where I will receive a Masters Degree in Special Education. One of my projects is to write an IEP, Manifest Determination and a PLAETT. Can anyone point me to a location of where to get good reference information | ||||||||
| February 26, 2007 - 10:57 AM Does anyone out there teach 11th grade AP American Lit. in one semester? | ||||||||
| February 25, 2007 - 09:00 AM Wow! I already had a response to my previous message. Thanks. I love this site. Here"s another question. Does anyone have any good suggestions for teaching Reading to 10th and 11th graders. I teach in a very diversified SED classroom, but I only have six students. It kind of makes it difficult to break them up into groups according to need because there are so few of them. If I get very simple, some of them are bored out of their minds where maybe 1 or 2 need that type of instruction. It also makes planning very difficult. I"ve tried REWARDS but as I said, the ones that can read somewhat get bored and complain. | ||||||||
| February 24, 2007 - 02:14 PM Hi, I forgot to leave my email address for those who would like to respond. Thanks | ||||||||
| February 24, 2007 - 02:09 PM I am a somewhat experienced ESE teacher (5 years), teaching in a new county and at a new school for me. I have been having issues dealing w/my full-time aide. Because I"m new, it seems as if everyone believes I"m the problem and not him. I see things differently. I think that he is abusing the fact that I am new to the school and is not doing the job he was hired to do. The first time I went to people regarding the way he handled students (Reprimanding and doling out consequences in front of other students in the lunch room), he turned my suggestions of dealing with the student in a more private setting, into my disregard for the school"s behavior plan. I was subjected to a meeting that ended up w/me looking like the bad guy because of his twinsting my words around. Since then he has taken it upon himself to come and go from the classroom whenever he sees fit. After my first experience of what I call a witch hunt, I am afraid that no one will listen to my complaints. However, I feel this is an issue that must be dealt with before I have no say so at all regarding what he does in my classroom. Can I get some advice about this? | ||||||||
| February 19, 2007 - 04:36 AM Hi..I"m currently a jr. in college working on my bachelor"s in elementary education. I"m in my first year of methods classes and feeling a little bit overwhelmed. Sometimes I just don"t feel like they teach me everything I should know about writing lesson plans. If anyone has any advice for me or anything I"d be happy to hear from you. | ||||||||
| February 16, 2007 - 05:08 AM I visit your website and i find it very helpful and interesting. I want to try your classroom activities for my grade-five students. Thanks! | ||||||||
| February 16, 2007 - 02:54 AM I am teaching a class of special needs (above average ability) kids who need to learn the main elements of the periodic table (symbols, atomic number and weight etc). This is very abstract for them and I was wondering if anybody had any ideas as to how to make it more fun and interesting and easier to learn? I"d appreciate any ideas! Thanks! | ||||||||
| February 14, 2007 - 03:26 AM I am taking a sports trip for yaer 8 pupils (age 12/13) and have to produce a workbook that pupils can fill in, something like a diary or a reflective log. Has any one got any examples / templates? | ||||||||
| February 11, 2007 - 07:31 PM I want to teach a mini lesson on how to choose credible websites while conducting internet research. I teach 5th grade language arts. Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! | ||||||||
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