Guest Post by: Dee Mason I have taught English in multiple countries on multiple continents to multiple age groups. I was considered a successful ‘English as a Second Language’ instructor because my students were comfortable speaking in English, could communicate their ideas clearly on paper, and their listening and reading comprehension skills were often noticeably better after a semester or year in my classroom. I was pleased that my students improved, and it felt...
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Guest Post By:Maria Rainier With more and more consumers tapping into the iPad app market, there are various different iPad apps that have been created specifically for teachers who are hoping to integrate their favorite new technological device into their classrooms. As a matter of fact, there are numerous different apps that could not only make educating students a lot easier, it could also make learning more entertaining as well. If you own your own...
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This is a fun project for 1st-6th grade. The age of the child will determine how much adult help they will need. I made the mistake of letting each of my 24 1st graders make their own. Next year the class will make one as a group. This is a great Earth Day Project but you can also use it as a tie in to a lot of social studies themes. I did endangered animals...
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Guest Post by: Miriam Holt If your student is preparing for a standardized test like the SAT or GRE and needs to expand his or her vocabulary, your primary goal should be to develop in your student an automatic, reflexive response to seeing an unfamiliar word: first, your student should guess its meaning (from roots and prefixes, context, or both), and second, he or she should look it up immediately to see if the guess...
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This 12 month calendar is a great holiday gift for parents. The artwork can be 12 simple pictures or you can have the children create different types of art for a greater variety of work. Some of my favorites are: a self portrait, collage, crayon resist, watercolors, string painting,marble painting, golf ball painting, sponge or finger painting, or a simple picture that goes with the season or holiday of the month.
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