Teacher Tipster Home Resources - National Association for Multicultural Education The mission of our good friends at the PeaceJam Foundation is to create young leaders committed to positive change in themselves, their communities and the world through the inspiration of Nobel Peace Laureates who pass on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody.” Join one of the most exciting youth movements of our time: PeaceJam and The Global Call to Action. PeaceJam brings young people together with Nobel Peace Laureates to tackle the toughest issues facing our planet – issues ranging from basic needs, such as access to water, to basic rights, such as stopping the cycle of violence, and expanding social justice and human security. Change starts here. The PeaceJam Foundation provides five curricular programs that explore the stories of 12 Nobel Peace Laureates and the ways they overcame problems in their communities. “What DO I Call You People???” General Teacher Certification Requirements in Each State Wikipedia – An open-content encyclopedia in many languages. Books Awesome Library
80+ Google Forms for the Classroom If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Google Forms is a great tool for the classroom and this post from 2008 has always proven popular on my blog. I hope you continue to be inspired by the ideas here. I have created example forms for each of the different topics, follow the links in each of the ten sections. 1 ) Get to know your class Use this form to gather some indication from your new class about their likes and dislikes, their favourite lessons or after school clubs they enjoy. 2 ) Emotion graph An emotion graph is a simple line graph comparing a range of happiness to sadness against different points (time) in a story or film. Use a Google Form to gather the children’s responses to different parts of any type of linear narrative, written or visual. 3 ) Spelling test Steve Kirkpatrick had this brainwave a while back so check out his excellent post for more information about setting up the spreadsheet. 4 ) Comprehension questions
ICDL - International Children's Digital Library Classroom 2.0 Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) The Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) Hawai‘i Project promotes educators’ use of research-based strategies of effective practice for culturally and linguistically diverse students. These strategies are derived from Vygotsky’s theory and over 30-years of research from the national CREDE project, now at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. These standards were recognized by the national What Works Clearinghouse. The CREDE Standards: Joint Productive Activity: Collaborating with students to create joint products.Language and Literacy Development: Developing competence in the language(s) of instruction throughout the day.Contextualization: Connecting new information to what students already know and teaching in culturally relevant ways.Complex Thinking: Challenging students toward cognitive complexity.Instructional Conversation: Teaching through dialogue.Modeling: Promoting observational learning.Child Directed Activity: Encouraging students’ decision-making.
writing Through the use of Writer's Workshop & the writing component of The Daily 5 my first graders work on various independent writing projects. Sometimes they are asked to work on a specific writing topic & other times they will work on their choice of writing. I have found that the "spark of excitement" that motivates very young writers is so important. If you would like to see more on our "Tooth-rific Writing" click the either picture to read that post. Here are a couple of resource books that I am constantly referring to-excellent writing resources! Donna over at Kinderglynn has also made some super-cute writing strategies posters that I will be using this year-I just love Pete the Cat!
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