Wednesday, September 10, 2008

NEA Toolkit for Improved Instruction

In This Issue
  1. Setting Up Your New Classroom
  2. Classroom Management: When the Ship Sails Adrift
  3. Team Teaching: Two Cooks in the Kitchen
  4. Dress to Impress
  5. Retired Educators Love Technology
  6. Lesson Plans, Classroom Resources, And More

Sponsored By: NEA Teacher ToolKit
It's about time... that teachers can focus on students rather than paperwork! Are you looking for an easy, convenient way to record and retrieve student data? The NEA Teacher ToolKit can help. This exciting new classroom resource for teachers is a fully integrated web-based application that can help save you time. Learn more at http://nealist.nea.org/t/4810966/2200845/21213/0/. NEA Teacher ToolKit... classroom tools designed for teachers by teachers.

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  1. SETTING UP YOUR NEW CLASSROOM
    Your classroom is your home-away-from-home 5 days a week -- for you and your students -- so make it a fun, productive learning space. Get started with tips for assessing your space, arranging the room by function or activity, and decorating with a theme.
  2. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: WHEN THE SHIP SAILS ADRIFT
    Already feel like your classroom's sailing between Scylla and Charybdis? Your colleagues offer advice to get back on course.
  3. TEAM TEACHING: TWO COOKS IN THE KITCHEN
    These days, you might be sharing your classroom with another teacher. Can you work effectively together -- without spoiling everything? Find out what teachers are doing to make it work.
  4. DRESS TO IMPRESS
    For an aspiring educator, knowing curriculum and classroom management aren't the only things that make you a teacher. You've gotta look the part to be at the head of the class.
  5. RETIRED EDUCATORS LOVE TECHNOLOGY
    When someone says "techie" you're likely to imagine a pimply-faced teenager or twenty-something hunched over a keyboard surviving on a diet of chips and soda pop, but these members are making the most of their 21st-century retirement.
  6. LESSON PLANS, CLASSROOM RESOURCES, AND MORE
Check out these articles and many more resources for educators at NEA.org!

Sponsored By: NEA Teacher ToolKit
It's about time... that teachers can focus on students rather than paperwork! Are you looking for an easy, convenient way to record and retrieve student data? The NEA Teacher ToolKit can help. This exciting new classroom resource for teachers is a fully integrated web-based application that can help save you time. Learn more at http://nealist.nea.org/t/4810966/2200845/21213/0/. NEA Teacher ToolKit... classroom tools designed for teachers by teachers.