M401 Fall 2014

This article includes twelve volumes of ice breaker activities for the new year.

Use these resources and tips to help prepare your child for the new school year.

Not all of us will get teaching jobs right away, which means we will be subbing. These are GREAT tips for classroom management as a substitute teacher because we all know how difficult that can be.

This is perfect for those of us who are about to be student teachers!!!! This article takes you through how to set up classroom management when starting with a class in the middle of a year!

Charity Preston takes you through her 6 motivational styles that helped her improve classroom management.

This takes you through a list of things you should and should not be doing that will help better classroom management and explains them thoroughly.

This article take you through a 4-step process to administer Tier II interventions, as well as supplying plenty of ideas and resources for addressing specific behavior problems for Tier II students or "frequent flyers." (There is also a link in the article to Tier 1 intervention strategies).

This article talks about how punishment doesn't work for behavior management and a nice alternative is empowerment, which the article explains how to implement.

Use these behavior management tips and strategies to help you establish effective classroom discipline.

This website contains a lot of various advice for new teachers. One of the interesting sections contains information on current and popular topics in education.

It's a blog for teachers that has effective ideas and tips for organizing the classroom including how to change it up each year.

This is another website with ideas for classroom organization. It has pictures and suggestions from teachers all around the United States.

This website lists effective methods for teaching ESL that have been developed more recently and shown to work.

This is a teacher resource website, but it contains great advice for interviewing and answering tough questions.

This article gives advice on little things for an interview that some people might not think of or put much thought into. This article is based on experiences of teachers. The article is broken down into categories which makes it extremely easy to understand to to reference later on if need be.

This link connects you to a book that has answers to over 100 interview questions that are common in teacher interviews. There is a mobile version of the book as well.

This website contains tons of advice on how to make a great teaching portfolio. There are also examples.

This is an information guide on how to create a portfolio for interviews.

This website contains important procedures that need to be taught during the first week of school and how to teach them.

This blog contains brain break activities that are based off of the show "Minute to Win It".

This is a big list of books that are great for the first few days of school.

This website just contains tips for how to document the behavior of students in the classroom and keep it in a record.