M401 Fall 2014

This website gives homemade sensory tools that could be used for students who often act out and need something to calm them down.

An example of a behavior management technique based off of the clip chart. The mini clip chart allows for the same things except that it's much smaller and kept private so the student is not embarrassed.

This site helps you download an app that lets the students know when they're being too loud and hints that they need to calm down.

This website has tons of useful apps that will help manage your classroom. My favorite is the "Too Noisy App"

This blog contains multiple resources and links to help teachers organize their classroom based on reading level.

This article not only gives examples of extremely common interview questions but also gives samples of how they could be answered. Now, everyone is different...but these are some good answers if you can't think of anything!

This goes through a list of qualities that principals will be looking for when they interview you, so it is a good idea to somehow work these qualities into your answers!

This is an especially helpful resource given what seems to be an increased prevalence of ADHD in today's classrooms.

This is a list of suggestions for implementing a job chart in your classroom. I really dig this one: "Historian - this person keeps a record of the major activities of the week, and writes one positive thing about each student in the class. I collect the historian report at the end of the week (sometimes the class helps by offering suggestions) and we will have a written history of our class that I will type and give to each student at the end of the year as a way to remember 4th grade"

This is a compilation of suggestions from several different teachers on how to arrange and manage learning centers during different activities. Very helpful.

This is a huuuuge list of different rewards-based strategies to manage your students.

There are two tips here related to classroom management - creating a "cover folder" for your students to use during tests, and one teacher's method for recording her classroom rules.

This has links to a bunch of resources and activities for the first week of school. There are name games, lesson plans, and management ideas and materials as well.

This is far more education-centric than the Monster.com Resume resource, and has table of contents with specific categories sorted by areas of concentration and the types of degree the applicant holds.

Written specifically for those going into jobs in education, this extensive article details everything you need to know about each part of your resume and cover letter.

This is a link to a handout that educators get. Its a guide for creating a solid resume.

This is a unique resource because it's not from a strictly education-related entity but a careers website, which means it will be useful in addition to more teacher-focused resume advice.

This is a collection of blogs from different educators around the world, curated by EdWeek.org. The blogs are all sorted by category, making it incredibly useful when looking for insight on a particular topic as well.

A lot of these things seem pretty obvious, but what I like is that the list is relatively all-encompassing which makes this a pretty handy reference for those of us who may be likely to forget something obvious like a seating chart (aka me) or are looking for a little extra motivation as the first week of school gets closer.

This website provides resources for the first week of school. It gives plenty of ideas to consider.

This is particularly relevant to us give the use of Class Dojo at Poston Rd. I really like their logic behind deleting student data every year, saying: "We want to help kids succeed by recognizing and sharing the things they do well," the company said. "No part of that vision needs 'permanent records.' "

This is the magazine Alandra brought into class this week. It has a lot of great articles and editorials relating to multicultural education, and seems worth the cost of a subscription or at least the purchase of the occasional back issue.

This is an extensive list of teacher-submitted behavior management strategies employed in a wide variety of grade levels.

Everyone's favorite time waster, reddit, can actually be pretty useful depending on which subreddits you subscribe to. This one features lots of interesting education-related news.