Education Short List

My Dream of Appreciating Diversity

Rosshalde — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:09:57 +0000

Yesterday I wrote an article for the Teacher 2 Teacher blog about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Each year I am reminded and inspired by the commitment that Dr. King made to equality. For me, I feel that the best way to truly obtain, and maintain, equality is through greater exposure to difference we do […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Teach Hub: Making Standards Work For You

Rosshalde — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:50:48 +0000

Before the winter break, I wrote an article for Teach Hub about How to Make the Standards Work for you. That article, really gets into specific details on how we, as educators, shouldn’t be afraid of the standards – but rather use them to our advantage. A few people already commented on the article through […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Get It While You Can

Rosshalde — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:50:00 +0000

Although most schools are out for the winter break (lucky ducks) – there are still some teachers trying to make it through. For those educators, you are really struggling to keep in your students’ excitement and energy. Maybe you have a shorter winter break, year-round school, or have snow days that you already need to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Big FREEBIE full of lessons

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:27:50 +0000

Have you gone and downloaded the mega huge Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) book that is 100% completely free? Well you better get a move on. It’s already been downloaded over 5,000 times! Can you believe it? Click on this link here, and get it all.

Games for Educators: Jeopardy in the Classroom

Rosshalde — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:57:23 +0000

Earlier this Fall, I wrote two articles for Games for Educators. The articles focused on games that can be played in the classroom. You can read the first one here , it talks about ways to bring games into the classroom. The articles received such a positive response, that I was asked to write an […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Holiday E-Book – FREE

Rosshalde — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:24:46 +0000

Free December/Winter/Holiday E-Book I participated in a really huge – like 50 contributers huge – December/Winter/Holiday FREEBIE lesson plan book. Every contributor had to create and donate at least one item (preferably three). Which means…drumroll please…. there are at least 50 (FIFTY) but up to ONE HUNDRED FIFTY free worksheets, lesson plans, and holiday ideas […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Teach Hub: Be Specific With Praise

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:20:08 +0000

Here is my latest article for Teach Hub. The article is about why it’s important to be more specific in your feedback to students. As well as the ways in which you can do that. I really do enjoy being able to share my insights with others, I hope you feel the same. And, as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Fourth Grade Vocabulary Quizzes

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:24:52 +0000

When I was a student teacher I studied in fourth grade. I loved it. Fourth graders were just old enough to understand the concept of ‘school’ and what it can entail; as well as being young enough that they got the jokes and still had purse happiness and joy. . While I was a student […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

What I’m Reading – November 16th

Rosshalde — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:57:31 +0000

Teaching Tolerance Gym Article Game Changers I will admit it – I am not athletically inclined. I’ve never been on a sports team and I was never excited about gym class. The opening sentence of this Teaching Tolerance article says “You might as well give me an ‘F’ now – get it out of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...

3rd Grade Vocabulary Quizzes

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:49:00 +0000

When I was a 4th grade teacher, I created a whole series of vocabulary quizzes that were aligned with the reading stories we did in class. They were a big hit with students and teachers. So much so, that I had third grade teachers ask me if I could make them for their stories too. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...