Three Essential Sets of Skills for All Educators

1. Classroom Management

LEARN NC Teacher Support

How to Deal with ALL Misbehaviors, a Step-by-Step Discipline Guide by Master Teacher (EVERY teacher should know about this!)

Managing Activity and Behavior between the classroom and computer lab (Issues unique to a computing environment)

2. Positive Expectations and Successful Experiences

Learner Profile (Quick, effective ways to assess teacher & student personalities, multiple intelligences, learning styles, organizational habits, and affinities)

Powerful Truths that lead to more effective teacher-student interactions (The Pinnacle, a self-assessment)

DreamBuilder (FUN ways to help students pursue deep interests, eliminate negative thinking, manage test-taking stress, and discover how they learn best)

Emotional Intelligence (How students' emotions impact learning potential)

3. Instructional Delivery

Technology and Achievement: How High Performing Schools Set the Table for Learning

Technology Applications for "Classroom Instruction that Works" (Marzano)

Brain Research (Quick and easy strategies that yield DRAMATIC results in classroom)

Memory Booster (Memory tricks & strategies your students should know)

Reflection Activities (Activities that provide productive processing time, which is essential if we expect learners to make meaning out of new information)

Content Coliseum: Find Outstanding Interactive Web Content for Any Lesson!

All Kinds of Minds (Helping educators understand how specific brain functions affect the way a student learns and performs in school)

Best Practice Quizzes (Best practices rewritten as student-administered pop quizzes- How would you score?)

Knowledge Flow ("We collect information for a purpose. We expect that information will shed light upon important questions or will lead toward insight and understanding. We must seek out authentic audiences for our students and opportunities to share what they have learned." -Jamie McKenzie)

FREE Online Tools (Puzzlemakers, 3D graphing tools, map generators, brochure & newsletter makers, flashcard & spelling worksheet generators, & MORE)

Copyright-Friendly Sources for Clip Art, Animations, Movies, Photos, Sound Effects (TK Multimedia Diner)

Study Habits and Test-taking Skills

Your Grade-on-a-Page (Make those essential interdisciplinary connections, Grades 5-8)

Powerhouse Reading Comprehension Strategies (Written in kid-language with graphic organizers)

Professional and Personal Resources for Teachers (See Coliseum: Sites for every content area)

"...we've learned that helping kids find out who they really are---what they are good at and what they love to do---is the most important way of maintaining natural curiosity and an eagerness to learn. We need to stop drawing attention to what kids can't do and start emphasizing what they can do."
(Willis/Hodson, 1999)

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