Fellow Teachers
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken
joy in creative expression and knowledge."
-Albert Einstein
Hello Teachers! Thank you so much for visiting my website and thank you for all that you do in the classroom! Below I have listed some links that I have found to be helpful tools regarding lesson planning, classroom management and being a successful teacher.
joy in creative expression and knowledge."
-Albert Einstein
Hello Teachers! Thank you so much for visiting my website and thank you for all that you do in the classroom! Below I have listed some links that I have found to be helpful tools regarding lesson planning, classroom management and being a successful teacher.
- http://712educators.about.com/od/discipline/tp/disciplinetips.htm This is a terrific website that offers many helpful hints on how to succeed in a classroom. (Perfect for new teachers or student teachers)
- http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm This website offers many tips and techniques on how to survive the first day of the school year as a new teacher, lesson planning, classroom management, developing tests and syllabi plus a lot more!
- http://www.livejournal.com/ Have students create their own online blog. Creating an online blog is an excellent way of using technology in the classroom as well as getting your students to write (and enjoy the writing process!)
- http://home.cogeco.ca/%7Erayser3/lessons3.htm Offers a variety of different English lesson plans.
- http://www.ncte.org/journals/ej English Journal is a fabulous journal that encourages English teachers and offers new insights, projects and unit plans that can be brought into the classroom.
Recommended Reading List
- http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Like-Champion-Techniques-Students/dp/0470550473 This book is amazing for new, old and beginning teachers. It offers forty-nine different teaching techniques that will help to improve your teaching, maintaining a classroom and how to effectively teach all groups of students.
- http://www.amazon.com/Middle-Understandings-Writing-Reading-Learning/dp/0867093749 A fantastic read that encourages English teachers on how to properly teach reading and writing. It provides techniques that will make students enjoy reading and writing!
- http://www.amazon.com/Tech-Savvy-English-Classroom-Sara-Kajder/dp/1571103619 A fantastic read that explains all the different way to bring technology into the classroom.
- http://www.amazon.com/Fires-Bathroom-Advice-Teachers-Students/dp/1565848020
- http://www.amazon.com/Fires-Middle-School-Bathroom-Schoolers/dp/1595581111 Both Fires in the Bathroom and Fires in the Middle School Bathroom offer fabulous advice on working in a secondary school setting and how to work with the students.
