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The following is a guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Her previous guest post, 15 Free Resources for Young Readers, was a big hit, so I'm pleased to have her with us again. Finding and sharing lesson plans online can help teachers save time and engage students in new ways. There are several sites that have been set up specifically for this purpose. Here are ten quality lesson plans sites for teachers to try throughout the school year.

Recommended for students grade 3-6. To use the shadow puppets with a writing or performing activity please see the suggestions at the end of this lesson plan. Read all directions carefully and adjust the lesson to suit your students

"You know what they say about the best laid plans. Well, lesson plans are no different. They might go less awry, however, if you write them down. Here's a checklist to work from. It's by no means the end-all, be-all but, it will get you started. Doubtless, you'll have or find things to add as you go along."

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Make life easier by building up a library of ready-made lessons for yourself or your teaching staff to copy and cut as required.   Though relatively easy, it can prove a godsend during the busy season when time is short, or when standing in for absent colleagues.

The well-researched and accessible pedagogy, Seven Principles for Inclusive Education, is the underpinning for all of Tanenbaum's curricula and teacher training programs (training in the Seven Principles is a core piece of all our teacher training programs). The Seven Principles can be applied to any classroom or lesson plan to increase equity and decrease exclusion. 1. Teaching All Students Educators should take several different approaches to teaching the same material so that information becomes more interesting and tangible to a greater number of students. 2. Exploring Multiple Identities Students who are proud of themselves and excited by the world around them will be more compassionate and understanding people; the same is true for educators. 3. Preventing Prejudice Educators should take a proactive approach to debunking preconceived stereotypes and preventing them from escalating into prejudices and negative biases. 4. Promoting Social Justice Students are good judges of what is fair, especially when they are affirmatively challenged to consider issues of social justice. Educators should talk to them about issues of social justice and injustice in terms of fair versus unfair, respectful versus disrespectful. 5. Choosing Appropriate Materials Inclusive classrooms use books and materials that reflect accurate images of diverse peoples and challenge stereotypes. 6. Teaching and Learning About Cultures and Religions Educators should create curiosity and expand students' horizons by teaching about others in a positive manner. Students should have the opportunity to learn from their peers as well as other cultures. 7. Adapting and Integrating Lessons Appropriately Educators should be flexible when using and adapting lessons in our curricula, as well as in prescribed curricula in general. Many of the most teachable moments are unplanned and unscripted.

This lesson makes students aware of online privacy issues, primarily those relating to giving out personal information on social networking Web sites such as Facebook. Students will learn to assess the various types of information they provide in Facebook profiles, along with the different levels of access. They will examine the potential risks and consequences of posting personal information on the Internet, and become more aware of how to protect their privacy.

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"A successful lesson is all about setting realistic aims that meet the students' needs and achieving them! Here's a list of aims and sub-aims, by no means exhaustive"

Focus on Speaking/Writing:          This is for students at beginning and intermediate levels. The objective is to practice asking and answering questions. Each student needs one picture. (Pictures of people from various ethnic, economic, age, and gender groups are particular]y useful. Fashion catalogs are good sources of such pictures.) The procedure is as follows: First, as a class, have the students generate a list of interview questions. Write them on the board. Then distribute the pictures to the students. Tell them they will become the person in their picture. The students must create a biography for that person. Give the students time to think. Next, divide the students into pairs. Tell them to take turns interviewing each other, using the questions generated earlier. Students should give answers based on the identities they created for the person in their picture. As a follow-up, students can write a one-paragraph biography of their person. Focus on Grammar: This works well with intermediate-level students. The objective is to practice using comparatives and superlatives. The materials needed are sets of pictures--one set per student--which show similar objects; e.g.,a set that shows different kinds of shoes, a set that shows different kinds of hats, or watches, or cars, etc. The directions for the activity are: Give one set of pictures to each student. Tell students they should use comparatives and superlatives (which have been taught prior to doing this activity) to describe the objects in their pictures. They should write as many sentences as possible. When students have finished writing, they should form small groups and read their sentences to each other. 'They should check for errors, both spoken and written, and discuss whether they agree or disagree with the statements made about the objects in the pictures. This activity also lends itself to a discussion of culture--for example, if the pictures present items of clothing, teachers can

Critical Thinking - Worksheet which can be used with a lot of texts to develop students' ability to look at texts critically. Discoveries - This is a speaking and reading activity surrounding the theme of discoveries. Estee Lauder - a business diva - Reading activity in which students read and talk about beauty Famous women - Speaking and reading activity in which students read and discuss famous, influential women. Hetty Green - Reading and vocabulary lesson in which students read about an infamous person and answer questions along with learning useful words connected to money. Listen and respond - Teacher reads to the students and the students fill in the missing information. New York, New York - Quiz in which students have to research the Internet to find out answers to questions about New York. People who change history - Rosa Parks - Reading and speaking activity in which students discuss human issues. Reading about Einstein - This is a full lesson plan for reading skills about Einstein. Reading Race - This is a reading activity which practices students scanning skills.

many schools, and certainly students automatically think of a younger person when they imagine their "ideal" teacher. It's the job of an older applicant to make them see otherwise. And it should be the job of the hiring staff to hire the best teacher - not just the teacher that might work out.