Puppet Shows for Peace
Teaching conflict resolution to early elementary students is difficult, as many don't know how to label their emotions, but teaching with puppet shows can help.
Keep Track of Your Grades
This MS Excel spreadsheet can be used to set and compute grades for all your classes! The directions are on the front page and its pretty self explanatory. You should be able to use this tool with any application that can open MS Excel spreadsheets, including OpenOffice.org Calc and Gnumeric. Just c [...]
Combining Verbal Linguistic and Non-Linguistic: Practice Strategies for Tier One, Two, and Three
I’m always looking for ways to make learning motivating and fun. Vocabulary development and even spelling are a passion of mine that has been building for the past year. I constantly hear teachers lament that students do not remember vocabulary. Reading deficiencies, many times exacerbated by poo [...]
Manage Behavior with Strategic Ignoring
One way to manage classroom behavior is to use strategic ignoring, however it is important to know when this strategy should be used and when it should not.
The Conflict Tool Box
Young people often have a hard time understanding and remembering abstract concepts. One way to combat this problem is to create a “conflict tool box”.