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Substitute Teaching: Tips, Tricks, Ideas, Suggestions, and Methods for Substitute Teachers. Have a collection of tests/quizzes in your packet. Here are Internet addresses of some tests/quizzes, found by doing a search in the Internet for "test of knowledge" or "quiz": Challenge the class with a puzzler. Here are some examples, taken from Lateral Thinking Puzzlers by Paul Sloane, New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1991.

Don't give away the answer until the end of the day! Brain stretchers and mind benders can be found in books published by Critical Thinking Press and Software (800-458-4849 or ct@criticalthinking.com or and NL Associates (Stories With Holes - NL Associates, PO Box 1199, Hightstown, NJ 08520), as well. Prepare word search puzzles for use with one or more students. Another suggestion: "Something I do as a substitute teacher in the last few minutes of a class period when the class is getting restless is play "Do What I Say, Not What I Do. " Still another suggestion: "A game that I use if we run out of work is called ABC. 1. Cooperative Learning. Education Designing Effective Projects: Sort by Grade. Course: Creating Student e-Portfolios with Google Sites. A Balanced Approach to E-Portfolios.

E-Learning | Q&A A Balanced Approach to E-Portfolios An e-portfolio pioneer discusses the value that e-portfolios provide in the K-12 learning environment, what's holding them back in the age of standardized assessments, and which tools teachers can use to improve the effectiveness of e-portfolios in their classrooms. By Bridget McCrea10/24/12 In 1991, long before the term "e-portfolio" was being used in the educational space, Helen Barrett began dabbling with the idea of creating online repositories where students could store, manipulate, share, reflect upon, and archive the work that they were doing in school.

That exploration led to a grant that Barrett, who was a part-time professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage at the time, used to experiment with a concept that would eventually become known as the electronic portfolio, or "e-portfolio. " Bridget McCrea: What is the e-portfolio's role in the K-12 classroom right now? McCrea: Which approach is more effective? Award-Winning Classroom Response System - GoSoapBox. Behavior Management Software - ClassDojo. Storify for iPad on the iTunes App Store. The Franklin Institute Online.

Free eBooks | Best 20 Sites to Download eBooks. 20 Sites to Download Free eBooks for your Digital Library With all the technology around these days, we don’t need a tree to make a book. Scholastic survey of 2014 shows that 61% of school kids in the USA read digital books vs. 25% in 2010. Print books, CDs, Blu-ray discs are going to the past. Now we can download eBooks onto our Kindles, iPads, iPod, phones, laptops… the list is endless. Here’s a useful collection of sites for getting free eBooks (yes, free!) For all of you virtual bookworms. SEE ALSO: 200+ FREE & Useful Teacher ResourcesSEE ALSO: 15 Websites to Download Free Audiobooks for Your Player Free-eBooks.net This great website is exactly what it says on the tin – a huge free source of eBooks available for download.

To download a free ebook, follow the steps below: Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Note that with the free account, you may download up to 5 books each month. Google Play Books Amazon Free Kindle Books eCampus Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble lets you download Nook textbooks. GoClass by LearingMate.