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This forum is for all teachers who want to share successful tips and techniques. You have great lessons that students respond to, tell us about them. If you have some tools for managing behavior, outline the steps you take. Thanks for your participation.
Best all around Smartboard site
Smartboard sites
Here's another site we use in my schoolhttp://www.theteachersguide.com/InteractiveLitSitesSmartBoard.htmfun stuffhttp://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html
Help for substitute teachers
Need videos for your Smartboard?
Here are some sites that can provide free videos for your Smartboard and classroom:
Behavior oh boy
I had issues with disruptive students in my classroom until I found the Pre-Referral Intervention Manual. It's loaded with management tools, forms, strategies, ways to document behavior so you can share successes with other teachers.
You can buy it with free shipping here
http://www.mcasmentor.com/PRIM.htm
Behavior Intervention
There's another book that's useful for this purpose, The Behavior Intervention Manual, you can find it
here, http://www.mcasmentor.com/PRIM.htm
Free stuff
There's a site that has all kinds of free stuff for teachers:
http://www.kalama.com/~zimba/freeforteachers.htm
Best sites for teachers
The best sites I've found for teachers:
And, do you want to raise test scores?
http://www.core-standards.org/testwords.htm
More about teacher evaluation
Research shows that direct vocabulary instruction will increase background knowledge especially for ELL's,
you can raise test scores by 10 to 20 points by teaching vocabulary that appears often in test questions.
There's a set of ebooks at the link below that pulled the words out of standards and benchmarks from tests all over
the country, it has lists but also graphic organizers and information on teaching vocabulary in interesting ways.
http://www.core-standards.org/testwords.htm
Getting worried
I've been following teaching websites in New York to see how the state is going to handle teacher evaluation.
Here's an article that union leaders point to:
and here's what is said about the protest under way by some Principals in the state
and to see what the plan is for New York State's teacher evaluation system
kind of scary, I'm glad I'm getting close to retirement
Technology in the classroom
I found a place where some of the newest technologies for classrooms are critiqued and described:
Technology Ipads or Iphones?
For teachers, the new technology being touted now is Ipads or other tablet PC's to help us keep
track of student performance. Companies are lining up to provide software and apps for those
devices. Here's some information about that; http://www.nea.org/home/41992.htm
Oganize you stuff in the cloud with Dropbox; http://www.dropbox.com/
APPS for teachers, keep up to date, grade books, essay grader, etc. http://appadvice.com/applists/show/apps-for-teachers