This American Life - 1 views
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Jeremie Smith on 17 Sep 10I love this website! It gives a glimpse of stories not often discussed in mainstream media.
Why I Love Teaching, and Advice to New Teachers- http://equality101.net/?p=1980 - 3 views
This is a simple, yet valuable reminder of why we are becoming teachers in the first place. With large piles of papers to grade and uncooperative students, it's easy to become a little down- so thi...
Educational Rap song - 2 views
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This rap song is catchy and also can help students learn the different parts of speech.
English Club: Teach English - 2 views
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This website is geared more towards ESL teachers, with many helpful tips on teaching grammar, as well as information about jobs. This website also offers teacher forums.
One Literature Nut - 2 views
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This blog is a high school English teacher that likes to post about novels usually in the chick novel, romantic, youth categories that she feels high school students would appreciate. Its a good site to look at if you are wanting to teach your kids to free read outside of class a book that is worth while
English Lit, American Lit, and All Things Humanities - 2 views
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This blog seemed like a great site to explore ideas on lesson plans, book recommendations, and other articles to aid in literature studies.
Taylor Mali-What Teachers Make - 2 views
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This is a video that I saw at the Epsilon Delta spring initiation. It's a poem! Kind of like slam poetry, but a little less bash-y :)
How to use a semicolon - 2 views
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Pretty funny, illustrated explanation of when to actually use semicolons.
Successful Teaching Blog - 2 views
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This blog gives strategies and tips for successful teaching globally.
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz - 2 views
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This is proof that high quality prose and poetry can pop up in the most unlikely places. Thousands of people have used Amazon's page selling a peculiar product to demonstrate their writing skills. The web allows for interesting forms of Internet graffiti.
Historical Tweets - 2 views
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Speaking of twitter, do this! It's great.
Information/lesson plan ideas on basically any author you would ever teach - 2 views
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This is another page from webenglishteacher, and it lists seriously any author you would ever teach in your class. Click on an author, and instantly it points you to different lesson plan ideas about that author. So cool.
School Success - 1 views
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This website offers helpful tips for new teachers. It gives information that may be beneficial during the first day of class.
Top 5 Classroom Management Strategies - 1 views
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The strategies themselves might seem like common sense, but the explanations that back them are solid and give decent food for thought. It's also comforting to know that this teacher backs these methods after 17 years and after teaching many diverse students and subjects.
Conversations about Teaching, Blocking, Motivating with Dr. Garcia's Students - 1 views
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Dr. Garcia is very confident in his teaching practices and gives advice on how to avoid having students shut down and the process of building trust and relationships.
Technology in the Classroom - 1 views
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This website gives advice for teachers who want to integrate technology into the classroom. Teachers share their opinion on different technology devices and use them in lesson plans.
Waiting for Superman - 1 views
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This is a trailer of an upcoming documentary presenting the ugly side of public education, and why it is failing our students. While this isn't the most optimistic view of public education, it's important to see where public education is lacking, and how you can make a difference.
PLN: Your Personal Learning Network Made Easy - 1 views
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Since we are all in the early stages of developing our personal learning networks (PLN), I found this blog post to be a useful description of what a PLN should include and the purpose it can serve. Definitely some things to keep in mind as you continue to build your own personal learning network.
SOAR - 1 views
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If you are looking for an opportunity to volunteer tutor in the Champaign Urbana area, SOAR is an after school tutoring program for kindergarden through fifth grade. Students with experience speaking Spanish are always needed, as well.
YouTube - Mercutio & Tybalt's death - Romeo & Juliet (1996) - 1 views
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I found this clip of Mercutio's death scene from the 1996 Romeo and Juliet. I think it would be useful for the students to see what they are reading be preformed in a way they could relate to more. This clip can also be used in a discussion of whether this play is a tragedy or a comedy.