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Great info for when I teach about natural disaters.

provides strategies for teaching angry and aggressive students coping skills

Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way.

Promethean Planet has over 50,000 free teaching resources, lesson plans and worksheets. Including free interactive whiteboard resources.

Blog about teaching with technology and ELA

15 Super Easy ways to help your reluctant learners Unfortunately, approximately 40% of kids are considered to be struggling readers. The best way to prevent your child from being part of this statistic is to start teaching reading EARLY. Your children will have much less difficulty learning to read the earlier they get started.

From Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology Kristi Gerig, Jan Perry, and Leanette Spencer The University of Georgia Review of Reading Recovery Eric is a first grade student at Camelot Elementary, a large school that serves a diverse population of 1200 students.

Makes you think about how we teach.

I've seen a lot of hubbub lately touting the teaching of reading at an increasingly early age. First, there was a commercial for a program claiming it could teach your baby to read. Then, I saw an ad for a school whose biggest selling point (according to the ad) was that their school can have your child reading before kindergarten.

I love the scholastic website, especially for elementary teaching. It offers so many great ideas, activities, and worksheets for nearly everything I teach! Some things are free, while others are subscribed to/paid for. And you can't forget the Book Clubs!

Kathie Nunley teaches how to use Layered Curriculum. She also provides insight on some of the hot topics in psychology and neuroscience. We can relate much of this information to the students we teach.

Activity allowing the exchange of compliments/criticism. Teaches students how to properly handle conflict.

readuing and at risk students

Web Search Engine teaching ideas

Economics sites help students learn to be smarter consumers, savers, and investors. The sites provide interactive activities, lesson plans, games, curriculum materials, articles, and other resources for teaching and learning about economics. Included: Fourteen great sites for teaching personal finance and economic systems in the classroom.

I am going to offer a unit on the Civil War and its impact on World History in my World History class (mostly 10th graders) for the first time. They quit teaching about the Civil War in US History that students take as juniors in our district, and I think they need more than what they got in 7th grade. Just saying! I think this blog I added to my RSS will be a great help.

It would also help if I spelled Technology correctly (:

A WebQuest that teaches about Hispanic heritage.