M401 Fall 2014

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

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!

Executive job-seekers must stay above competition to land next top job. Expert job-search advice for executives, top managers.

KPBS coverage of education news. There are stories at least every other day about major issues in the news about education. This is a little easier to read than the NY Times online Education section.

From the "about" section: A Global Leading News Source covering educational, political, business, and environmental issues. Since 1997 EducationNews has provided the latest daily EducationNews coverage from world-wide sources. In addition to the U. S. and world media publications, commentaries and reports are featured and include comprehensive views on education issues from all sides of the political spectrum. EducationNews.org has been ranked Number 1 for many years in our coverage of education. EducationNews.org is a fresh approach to the age-old problem of increasing coverage of education news. Unfortunately, education is not a topic that news organizations are able to provide premium coverage to all the time, thus ironically, all education experts face the same problem - the difficulty of educating the public.

The title says it all. This is a great place to get information about what is going on in the world of education in grades K-12.

This is a news site with an emphasis on global education news, reminding us that it's important to maintain a global perspective regardless of where we teach.

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 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.

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 a very brief teacher reference sheet reviewing Wong's First Days of School. Good refresher that highlights some things to think about when planning for the first week.