TIE Online Class: Web Lit for Educators

Kindergarten - respect, resource, rant

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COUNTDOWN is a challenging interactive television math program which has engaged tens of thousands of students through broadcasts on cable television in Chicago. Capitalizing on the one on one relationship a student viewer has with television, COUNTDOWN makes math "work".

Great Resource for creative writing and integrated lessons/activitities.

The narrowing of some curriculums and the rigid school assessment formulas under the federal No Child Left Behind Act drew comments from researchers and educators at forums on different sides of the U.S.

Looking for ways to work news into your classroom curriculum? Check out these great ideas for connecting current events to all subjects. Young Americans today know less and care less about what's going on in the world than young Americans of previous generations did.

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Reading textbooks is very different from reading your favorite mystery novel. Naturally, the way you read a textbook will vary depending on how well you know the material already, and the Textbook Surveys you have performed should have started to show you how you can handle each of your books.

I first heard about this at the Title I conference this year in Maimi and have become interested in knowing more and why. - - "the boy crisis" -- the decline over the past decade or so in academic achievement and college attendance among U.S. males -- is one of the most serious issues facing U.S. society today.

Article to create a successful open house. In my school parent invovlement is a target area as a part of school improvement - so this was good for me and to share with staff to increase parent involvement

Students engage in writing a number story, focusing on writing content as well as the understanding of the mathematics.

I have to tell you that it was a tough call to make these decisions, especially when we're talking every teacher no matter what grade level or subject, but I hope that you find a couple of gems to put away in your virtual treasure box.

In film and in literature, medieval life seems heroic, entertaining, and romantic. In reality, life in the Middle Ages, a period that extended from approximately the fifth century to the fifteenth century in Western Europe, was sometimes all these things, as well as harsh, uncertain, and often dangerous.

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