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Organization-

  • Ms. Powell's Management Tips for Teachers- Everything possible that you can imagine for organization and classroom management is on this website. She includes photographs of classrooms as well as effective teaching strategies for teachers in grades K-5. She is an incredible mentor.

    Planning-

  • Scholastic Teacher Tools- View unit and lesson plans from various teachers at Scholastic, one of the greatest websites for teachers to visit. The lessons range from literary to beginning of the year to every other subject imaginable. ALL of the links and lesson plans include printables and links. Some also have recommended websites and book lists.
  • Learner.org
  • Online Activities and Interactive Learning|Grades 3-5
  • First Month of School|Two Writing Teachers
  • Exercise Energizers
  • Teaching (Grammar) with Humor
  • Light the Spark|Scholastic.com
  • Verbs to Use in Creating Educational Objectives
  • Teach-nology

    Management-

  • Managing Cooperative Grouping Activities- Four tips from Laura Candler.
  • Turning Behaviors Around- Scholastic Instructor Magazine|April 2008
  • 86 Ways to Rephrase "Very Good"
  • The Crazy Professor Game- From Power Teaching's Chris Biffle. This is a .pdf file I created for it.
  • Variety of Behavior Contracts
  • Quiet Signals in Cooperative Learning
  • The First Week of School|Laura Candler

    Support-

  • A-Z Teacher Stuff Forums
  • Strategies for Gifted Learners Blog|Scholastic.com
  • Special Education and Inclusion|Scholastic.com
  • The Stenhouse Blog
  • Teacher-Degrees.com

    Skills Practice-

  • Rising 5th Math Packet
  • Another Incoming 5th Math Packet- These can be printed for morning work time as well for the students to practice with independent reading.
  • Reading is Fundamental Monthly Activity Calendars
  • Summer Reading Calendar

    Magazines-

  • Scholastic DynaMath
  • Scholastic Storyworks
  • Super Science Magazine

    Affirming and Motivating Your Students-

  • I say hello to them every single morning as they walk through the door. I want them to know their presence is important to me as well as the others in the room.
  • For the science fair, I write them a short note before they go to interview. My teachers did that in elementary school, and I still have the notes. It doesn’t have to be long; it should mainly tell the student that he or she will be in your thoughts throughout the day.
  • I have made "trophies" on large posterboard to celebrate student accomplishments.
  • For Student of the Week, I invite the student to join in lunch with me and invite a friend. He or she is encouraged to hang photos on his or her own bulletin board over the course of the week.
  • We have a Young Author’s Day in February before the Florida Writes exam. The students receive writing “diplomas” and wear the plastic medallions that are in the party section at Wal-Mart. I also took photos of them following our writing basketball theme.
  • Write something in your students’ journals and keep projects for them over the course of the school year that you know they will value by the end of the year!
  • Bring in a breakfast one morning! For the Florida Writes, we have yogurt, healthy wheat cereal, a few kinds of fruit (apples, bananas, and strawberries) and two types of juice.
  • Write stories and math problems with their names in them. It works.
  • I write one-page letters for each of my students the last week of school.

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