M401 Fall 2014

This website outlines tips for interviewing, including what to know, say, and wear.

This is a great way to make students feel accountable for misbehaving in class.

This is a great way to keep students busy when they finish early.

Here are 5 effective tips to strengthen your classroom discipline.

These are super fun ways to give students positive praise for specific tasks they do in the classroom.

This is such a fun activity that helps students understand what they will need in order for them to succeed in your classroom.

This is a popular activity for teachers to do in the first week of school. It helps young students understand that "fair" does not mean "same."

This is a great project for students to do in the first week of school. It helps the teacher get to know the students and for the students to get to know each other.

This talks about the very first minutes your class has together and setting a tone of fun and hard work from the beginning of the yea

This blog assembles a list of 14 great books to read aloud in the first week of school to set the tone for a positive and inclusive classroom.

This site lists poems to use at the beginning of the school year that would be appropriate for younger grades. I want to incorporate poetry in my classroom from the very beginning of the year, and this would be one way to start.

This article talks about how to be prepared for interviews in knowing about the interview, about yourself, and about what to bring.

This is an article about what principals say make teachers stand out among others.

This is a news article about the US of A investing a billion dollars in early education.

Ha, I think I just got this article from another site only moments ago.

This article outlines new programs implemented in states to help aid in special education.

This article is a humanitarian article about using education as a way to improve human right conditions across the globe.

An article describing some of the traits necessary for a teach to effectively manage their class' behavior.

I know it's a buzzfeed article but there are actually some really cute ideas! Great ways to get the students attention without shouting over them.

An article that discusses the important of clear and concise classroom rules, and how routines and schedules are the basis for an active and consistently productive classroom.

An interesting article on culturally responsive classroom management that involves ideas that respect cultural diversity such as using pictures along with multiple translations of the same word for classroom items and labels.