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How to Help Students Set and Reach Their Goals
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” Yogi BerraHelping Students Reach Their Goals…One Step at a Time
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Creative Literature Projects Students Love
Sometimes it’s difficult to get students interested in literature, especially the classics. Spicing up lesson plans with some creative projects allows students who are not traditionally academically...
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4 Tips to Address Late, Missing Homework
As teachers, we’ve all had to deal with late work / homework from students. Whether it is a legitimate illness or a case of chronic truancy, dealing with late / missing work is annoying to say the least.
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Christmas Movie Curriculum Connections
Just because you're showing a movie before the end of term doesn't mean you are abandoning learning.Here are a few ways to get the most educational value out of holiday favorites.
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Passport to Education: Exploring World Calendars
It's the start of the New Year. For those of you that follow the Western calendar (Gregorian calendar), this means making resolutions and beginning a new year on January 1st with a fresh start. This is...
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5 Ways to Promote Summer Reading
You and your students worked too hard all school year to let the “summer slide” erase their reading progress. Rather than just assign books for the fall, the most effective way to make summer reading...
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Using Movies to Increase Student Learning
In the past, students in my English class often looked forward to the end of literature units.
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9/11 Teaching Resources
With the 12-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks happening today, now is the time for you and your students to commemorate that infamous day in American history. We've collected some...
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Celebrate a Healthy Halloween in Your Classroom
As Halloween approaches and candy sales rise, students look forward to celebrating this spooky holiday in the classroom. Fighting childhood obesity is becoming a bigger focus in schools, so a candy...
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Halloween Movies with Lesson Plan Ideas for All Grades
If you’re looking for a movie to watch this Halloween in your class, and incorporate a quick activity that will get your students thinking critically, look no further. The following movie list and...
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Classroom Halloween Activities for Any Grade
Believe it or not, Halloween is just around the corner. Maybe you’re already bracing for the costumes and the sugar rush, but what if Halloween could serve a useful educational purpose?
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Women's History Month Lesson: Your Place in the Race
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they're capable of understanding ~ Steve Prefontaine
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Earth Day: Recycling with Students
Recycling: everyone knows they SHOULD do it; not everyone does. What better place to start green habits than in the classroom?
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How to Get a Teaching Job: 3 Proven Ways
Finding a job teaching in this economy is harder than ever, and nothing is worse than spending four years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars preparing for a career that doesn't seem to need...
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Get a Teaching Job: Cover Letter Tips
Few professions require you to be as fearless as teaching - standing in front of a classroom of children, or worse yet, teens and try to share knowledge day in and out - yet many teachers fear the...
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Classroom Activities to Honor Veterans Day
Veteran's Day has always been one of those days I never got off school, so I never paid much attention. I'm guessing even those who do get the day off don't give it the attention it deserves. One of my...
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Christmas Movie Curriculum Connections
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