TIE Online Class: Web Lit for Educators

A reading site that offers tools for reading and comprehension strategies by reading level. It's free. Would like to learn more???

Project Based Learning ties in with common core. This article is a good reminder how PBL can meet student needs through CC

Worksheet with horizontal addition Would be good to discuss strategies to fluently add quickly (doubles neighbors strategy, build to 10 strategy)

AppCrayon is a great app to help interactively motivate students to write. Could be great for 3-4 year olds

Are you spending as much class time squelching skirmishes and fighting for students' attention as you are on fractions and essays? The book Rules in School can help you regain instructional time by developing class rules and consequences for infractions at the start of the year.

EducationWorld is pleased to share these stress-fighting tactics from HeartMath , widely recognized for its science-based stress solutions. According to the new MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Challenges for School Leadership, 51 percent of teachers report that they feel great stress in their job at least several days a week.

EducationWorld is pleased to present this professional development resource shared by Dr. Jane Bluestein, an expert in relationship-building, positive school climate and effective instruction. Like boundaries, choices are motivational tools that encourage young people's cooperation through empowerment. Choices build responsibility and commitment, communicate the teacher's respect for students' needs and preferences and can encourage students to perform a particular behavior.

Facing fierce competition to get into top colleges, many students are compromising their health and values to get ahead. Experts are even seeing stress levels increase at the elementary school level. Some educators are working to reduce the pressures on students. Included: One school's efforts to reduce student stress.

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.

This is a good article that addresses digital ethics.

These are apps for the ipad that categorized according to grade level.

This blog has great ideas to use with various books. This is the link to the Eric Carle list.

This is a great website for reading fluency and comprehension activities.

Teachnet.Com | Smart Tools for Busy Teachers: Bulletin Boards

Many new technology sites for teachers listed every day.