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- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Raleigh was born in the 1550s. In his early years he showed much of the character he would display as an intercontinental adventurer in his adulthood. He fought for England in France and Ireland, and even went to college for a time at Oxford. While he was...
- By William M. Wisser.
- Listening while you work: Using informal assessments to inform your instruction
- In The First Year, page 2.2
- Ongoing classroom assessment can be informal, but it provides invaluable information about what students are actually learning.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- New beginnings
- In The First Year, page 2.11
- Treat January as an opportunity to start fresh, in your relationships with students and colleagues and in your classroom management and instruction.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Our students: Not just ours, and not just students
- In The First Year, page 3.7
- Often, your difficulties with students will have nothing to do with your actions, your classroom management, or your school.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Finding an emotional outlet you can get into
- In The First Year, page 3.8
- If you don't take care of yourself and respect your own needs, you can't meet your students' needs, either.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- I know who they are, but who am I?
- In The First Year, page 3.10
- In your efforts to build relationships with your students, be sure to maintain your status as their teacher.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Mentor's guide
- My first words to any veterans, mentors and administrators reading this section should be “thank you.” The support and counsel you offer new teachers is invaluable. It is my hope that The First Year will assist you...
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Comics in the classroom
- Graphic novels aren't just “literature lite”: they're a genre you can use to explore philosophy, history, human interactions, visual literacy, and more with soon-to-be adults in a high school English class.
- Format: article
- By Ross White.
- Celebrating the freedom to read
- Banned Books Week teaches the importance of our First Amendment rights and draws attention to the danger of restricting information in a free society.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Children's literature promotes understanding
- Bibliotherapy and critical literacy are two ways to use books to help children better understand themselves, others, and the world around them. This article explains both strategies and provides resources for selecting appropriate books.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Improving your technology utilization
- A quick review can help you determine whether your school is making the most of its technology budget.
- By Chris Hitch.
- Persuasive writing: A classroom model
- In Arts of persuasion, page 4
- A plan for modeling persuasive writing with middle school students, using homework as the topic.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
- Professional development by email
- Conducting professional development by email can be an effective way to reach busy teachers, tailor the content to their needs, and provide an authentic context for learning.
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Assessing the learning process
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 3
- Assessment, like instruction, needs to be geared toward various learning styles, and teachers can create rubrics for ongoing assessment that keep a formal daily record of what students are learning.
- By Gretchen Buher and David Walbert.
- Choosing books that are just right
- This teacher research study examines how students select books for independent reading and how teachers can help them make choices more appropriate to their reading levels.
- By Melinda Parks.
- An introduction to teacher research
- Every day, teachers develop lesson plans, evaluate student work, and share outcomes with students, parents, and administrators. Teacher research is simply a more intentional and systematic version of what good teachers already do. This article explains the basic process of teacher research, including formulation of a research question, data collection and analysis, and writing up your findings.
- By Amy Anderson.
- Becoming an online teacher
- For even the most experienced classroom teacher, teaching online requires a thoughtful transition to the new environment.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood.
- Managing a classroom with brain food
- Tina Maples' eighth-grade language arts students are serious about their work they do. When students work on projects they care about — what Maples calls "brain food" — they manage the classroom themselves.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Reading is for the boys (and girls)!
- This WebQuest for teachers looks at the difficult issue of how to get — and keep — boys interested in reading. It guides you through the research, then looks at text selection and pedagogy and helps you find specific strategies for narrowing the adolescent "literacy gap."
- Format: article
- By Kimberly Bowen.
- Conventions
- In The five features of effective writing, page 6
- Conventions — grammar, spelling, and the like — are important to good writing, but should be taught only after the other Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
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