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Teacher Survival Kit for Classroom Management: 10+ Tips & Resources

Classroom Management TIps from Shelly Terrell

Teacher Survival Kit for Classroom Management: 10+ Tips & Resources:

"The first day with a new class often dictates what the rest of the year will be like. If we start the learning journey well with our learners then we can look forward to what the year ahead will bring. However, we must show our learners how to act in order to have a successful journey. How our learners approach that journey- their attitudes and behaviors- will determine if they end the journey better individuals than they were before they entered our classrooms. Even though classroom management isn’t adequately taught in most teacher development programs, I think it is one of the most important skills for a teacher."

http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2012/08/10/teacher-survival-kit-for-classroom-management-10-tips-resources/

Google+ Hangouts now have Live Captioning

"Google+ Hangouts are quickly becoming a very good way to communicate with lots of different people. They've recently opened up their Hangout OnAir Live function that lets anyone start a broadcast, via their hangout. Which includes professional Lower Thirds, and other fun stuff.

They also released an add-on for Live Captioning. Here's the post from Google+"

What Can You Do With Google?

Source: gcflearnfree.org via Pilar on Pinterest

Common English Mistakes of Native Spanish Speakers

Common Mistakes from Peter Mangiaracina

7 Ways to Engage Students with Writing – SimpleK12

7 Ways to Engage Students with Writing – SimpleK12:

"Peer Editing: Create a peer editing checklist and let students review each other’s work. NOTE: be sure to establish ground rules about positive constructive criticism and honesty. You may want to go so far as to mix the papers up yourself and then redistribute them randomly before pairing students up together.

Highlighting: Students of all ages love to highlight! Allow them to highlight certain aspects of their papers that you deem important. The focus can change as you review different writing skills. (Think: they can highlight all transitions, or their details, or their topic sentence, or all adjectives, etc.)

Showcasing: Choose a few anonymous papers to use for student review. (Think: a great paper, an OK paper, and a not-so-good paper) Scan in student papers to show through a projector (Smart Board or Promethean Board). Or, if your school lacks this technology, run off enough copies for each student to write on…"