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<description><![CDATA[Dorit Sasson is ESL and English teacher, freelance writer and a teacher mentor and trainer. 

She is the founder and director of the New Teacher Resource Center, an online resource center that provides strategies and tips for new teachers. teachers to be and veteran teachers.]]></description>
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<title>How to Tell If You Are Appealing to Your Diverse Learners</title>
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<description><![CDATA[So you want to teach diverse learners or are already working with them either in an isolated or collaborative context. That's wonderful. Working with diverse learners is a gratifying challenge for many educators. However, it's not for everyone.]]></description>
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<title>First Day of School Impressions: Are You Building Trust With Your Adult ESL Students?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:32:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the last few months, I've received quite a few emails from troubled teachers who have become frustrated by their efforts to teach their adult ESL students' English. They wanted to know why their students weren't participating, and what teachers needed to do to gain their students' general interest in order to create some momentum. ]]></description>
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<title>The Who, What and Why of Diversity Coaching: Why You May Need a Diversity Coach</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder how your work particularly impacts the students who have diverse learning needs? So you know the diverse learners in your classroom and are prepared to help them. That's a great start! However, not all teachers are aware of what they need to do to make their teaching maximally effective for their diverse learners.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips - Become the Effective Teacher You Want to Be</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:59:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today in the realm of assessments and evaluations, just one bad lesson can leave the bravest of teachers feeling inadequate in the classroom. Teachers are not alone. Most entrepreneurs and business owners go through similar situations in their work day.]]></description>
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<title>Interview With Professor Diane Barone - How to Integrate English Language Learners</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:49:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Read on for more information for tips and information presented by Diane Barone, who is a foundation professor of literacy at the University of Nevada, Reno on integrating English Language Learners in your general education class. Professor Diane Barone is also a member of the board of the International Reading Association. In 2008, Dr. Barone was named by President Bush to the National Institute for Literacy, a federal commission that provides leadership on literacy issues, including the improvement of reading instruction for children, youth, and adults. ]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips - Ways to Become a Good Teacher</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:43:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In today's world of teaching, accountability and evaluations are everything. The more you know how well you are performing, the easier it will be for you to increase that success you need. But there are other problems that get in the way such as: responding to discipline problems dealing with ongoing administrative tasks and...]]></description>
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<title>How to Control a Classroom: Have a Effective Management Plan and Handle Consequences</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:28:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A successful way to manage a classroom includes developing effective systems resulting in controlled student misbehavior.   Classroom management is probably one of the things teachers struggle with on a consistent basis in regards to teaching. Having patience and skills is necessary to become a successful classroom manager.]]></description>
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<title>Ways Writers Can Nurture Emotion Through Personal Story Writing of the Immigrant Experience</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:52:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Readers connect best when writers are able to offer their readers an opportunity read with a "feeling heart and soul" as opposed to just a "feeling mind." After all, great stories are not meant to just entertain, but also to touch the heart. Personal story writing is a great opportunity for writers to connect the "dots" of their lives.]]></description>
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<title>Ways to Use Writing to to Understand the Concept of an Immigrant As an &quot;Outsider&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:35:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Each one of us has been in a situation where we don't exactly feel we belong. We've been in situations where we feel like "outsiders" looking "in." If you think about it, feelings of being an "outsider" is very hard to express in words yet is a universal experience and need that everyone can deeply understand and relate to.]]></description>
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<title>Best Practices for Teaching Academic Writing to ESL Students in the Mainstream</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:23:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to building academic writing skills for ESL college students in the mainstream, teachers will be doing their college students a huge service when teachers are able to build literary connections to the writing skills and concepts they wish their students to learn. Teachers cannot assume that their ESL students understand abstract concepts as well as their native English speaking peers due to the gap in their background knowledge. ]]></description>
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<title>Ways to Use Children's Trade Books to Improve Speaking Skills for ESL Students</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:48:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a means to help facilitate oral proficiency, the Language Experience Approach (LEA) acts as the blueprint for personalizing students' experiences by creating their own story-like text. In the LEA experience, the teacher or parent records students' experiences by writing words, phrases, and sentences and gradually, ELL students see their story unfold as 4-5 sentences of their common experiences are presented on the board. In a language experience approach, the focus is on the child's spoken language as a vehicle for connecting with student's thoughts and feelings.]]></description>
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<title>Ways to Use Children's Books to Build Reading Comprehension for ESL Students</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:36:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recent research has established that effective read-alouds contribute to students' comprehension development (Fisher, Flood, Lapp, & Frey, 2004; Hickman, Pollard-Durodola, & Vaughn, 2004) and background knowledge, language, and listening comprehension skills (Beck and Mckeown, 2001). When teachers and parents use comprehension recall techniques for example, they use direct questioning to encourage students to try to recall and recap information in their own words. Similarly, the tiered approach of modeling outlined below uses questions to assist teachers in teaching a heterogeneous class of ELL students.]]></description>
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<title>Ways to Improve Adult ESL Learners' Pronunciation Skills</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:22:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult and trickiest areas for language educators to teach and ESL (English as a second language) learners to acquire is that of pronunciation. ESL students new to the States, know the importance of speaking communication yet often their accents get in the way of correct pronunciation and as a result, have an even more difficult time being understood. Today's current focus on communicative approaches to ESL instruction and the increasing emphasis on oral communication skills and teamwork are renewing interest in the role that pronunciation plays in adults' overall communicative competence.]]></description>
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<title>Ways to Use Children's Books to Build Oral Literacy and Vocabulary Skills for ESL Students</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:24:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this 3 part article, you'll find tips and information on how to use children's trade books to help literacy skills for ESL (English as a Second Language) K-12 students. This first part of the article focuses on building oral work to strengthen vocabulary development and pre-teach new vocabulary.]]></description>
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<title>Ways to Plan a Language Arts Lesson Unit on Writing Life Stories</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:56:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Behind students' emotional baggage, emotions, story, dreams, hopes, and wishes, every student has his or her own unique and empowering voice.Addressing this element of a unique voice goes hand in hand with designing a lesson unit on life story. Tying lesson to lesson on how to encourage students to bring out their unique voice through writing can help them attain big goals and achievement.]]></description>
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<title>How Writing About Our Life Story Can Lead to Meaningful Self-Discovery in a World of Diversity</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Everybody has an important life story, but not everyone realizes the benefits of taking the time to write it. A life story is what makes us who we are and shapes the foundation of our identity. But the more meaningful part of understanding our life story happens when we are able to link it to new self-discoveries and awarenesses about ourselves and how we are meant to show up in the world.]]></description>
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<title>How Writing Stories About Your Experiences Abroad Can Give You A Voice</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:56:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you ever feel like there is a story of your experiences living and working abroad that is just waiting to be born? You feel like you've been an outsider but do not feel completely understood at home? It is a known fact that people who have lived abroad for an extended period of time (or even for just a few weeks) return to their home countries are never quite the same again.]]></description>
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<title>Tips on Finding Your Diverse Voice in Your Life Story</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:13:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recently I wrote a post about how I was able to come "full-circle" with the memory of my mother who now is well into the advanced stages of Alzheimers. When I wrote this post, I was living in Israel, and it was empowering for me to see how I had come full circle both as a daughter and an returning "immigrant" to the States. My purpose in sharing with you this "snippet" is to show you how any situation, encounter, or revelation is an opportunity in disguise --to help you redefine and write your story.]]></description>
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<title>Why Honoring Students' Voices Is Important for the Diverse Classroom</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:26:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you walk into the classroom for the first time and you see a sea of 30 student faces, you are, at that very moment, absorbing the physical diversity of your classroom - ethnicities, religion, languages, and multi-cultural backgrounds. But behind each face is a student. "How am I going to cater to all these abilities and levels without any stress and discipline problems?]]></description>
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<title>Checklist for Different Methods of Teaching Grammar</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:15:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you know if your are teaching grammatical in the most effective way possible? The debate of how to teach grammar in the most effective way has great implications for second and foreign language learning in addition to grammatical concepts learned in the mainstream classroom. The main consideration to keep in mind when teaching grammar is do you want to teach a grammatical structure or concept inductively?]]></description>
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<title>Tips for the Instruction of Small Groups</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:20:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Small group work is a good way to diversify instruction. It takes the pressure off from the teacher, and allows for greater student interaction. But, instruction for small groups takes careful planning as students can get out of control if the task is not clear, too long or not interesting.]]></description>
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<title>How Writing Your Life Stories Can Help You Overcome Your Isolation</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:31:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The University of Tennessee defines diversity as, "Diversity is a commitment to recognizing and appreciating the variety of characteristics that make individuals unique in an atmosphere that promotes and celebrates individual and collective achievement." Your diverse life experiences lay the groundwork for writing your life stories. You may have Polish roots or a new mom who also happens to be a writer.]]></description>
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<title>The Secret to a Good Writing Lesson: What If Students Told Their Stories?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:44:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most students don't enjoy writing lessons because they feel they don't have anything worthwhile to say. Encouraging students to tell their life stories can make a huge difference in a lesson. Plus, your students will have so much more to contribute once you give them permission to write about what they know best - themselves!]]></description>
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<title>Teaching Tips on Motivating Young and ESL Students to Read</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:27:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Creating a fun environment for reading should be started for children at an early age, especially for your ESL (English is a Second Language) students.   With the ever increasing intrusion of the internet, getting children to read may seem problematic. But it does not have to be this way for teachers, educators and students.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips on Teaching Diversity: How Are You Integrating Your ESL Learners?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:09:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By now, you may be realizing that many of your struggling ELLs need more than just reading support. By understanding the struggles English language learners experience, you can help these students succeed by structuring activities a bit differently for them.]]></description>
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<title>Why ESL Students Aren't Performing Well on High-Stake Tests and 3 Instructional Strategies</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:35:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ESL learners aren't reaching the level of proficiency they need in order to succeed on the high-stake tests, which is causing teachers frustration, feelings of inadequacy and general ineffectiveness. Sounds familiar? I'm sure you want to support these students in the best way you possibly can, but it is counterproductive to speed up the process of second language acquisition by expecting students to do well on these high stake tests, with the academic language they haven't yet developed.]]></description>
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<title>Classroom Management Tips: Stimulate Teenagers With Active Learning Experiences</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:18:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Engaging teenagers for an entire class period can be challenging for any teacher. Because a teenager's emotional energy is high and many emotions and experiences are new, (adults have already experienced these waves of emotions) teenagers are easily impressionable, moody, sensitive and easily excitable. It is easy to see teenagers moodiness for example as annoying, but when you get to understand them better, you will engage them more effectively.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips: What If You Built the Emotional Connection First?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:42:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest challenges to achieving the teaching career of your dreams is being able to make emotional connections with students all of the time. Sure, planning a lesson is easy. However, making emotional connections with students to enhance learning is challenging.]]></description>
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<title>What a Good Teacher Needs to Know: How to Write 3 Key Parts to a Great Lesson Plan</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:53:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Creating a lesson plan that properly associates the comprehension level of the kids with your teaching material provides your students with a lesson both challenging and interesting. With any lesson plan there are 3 key parts to complete.]]></description>
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<title>Top Three Reasons Why A New Teacher Needs a Coach</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:36:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You are in a new school, new people, new expectations and you may be feeling you are all alone with no one who knows how you feel. You have taken the training, teacher certification, received your degree, but you don't know how to effectively communicate to your students.]]></description>
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<title>How New K-12 Teachers Can Take Control of Classroom Management and Discipline Problems</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:02:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here's a question that was anonymously submitted to the Teachers' Diversity Coach on how to respond to a classroom management issue where students were acting out on purpose. This question was submitted with permission from the teacher. ]]></description>
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<title>Building Background Knowledge = Deeper Reading Comprehension for English Language Learners</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:54:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[English language learners do not have the same knowledge that their native English speaking peers do, so it is essential that you create opportunities for it. And it's not that ELL students do not have background knowledge. They just have it in another language!]]></description>
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<title>Interview With Authors of Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Language Learners</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:35:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Andrea Honigsfeld and Dr. Maria Dove, who were gracious enough to provide readers of the Teachers' Diversity Coach, insights and information on teacher collaboration and on their new book, Collaboration and Co-teaching: Strategies for English Learners. In the past few years, collaboration between general education teachers and ESL teachers who teach English language learners is emerging as a highly important development that is helping teachers of ELL students address the problems of how to support this diverse student population more academically.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips on Increasing Student Engagement and Raising Motivation</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:50:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you're still teaching a wide range of classes and are still experiencing discipline problems, what are you doing on a regular basis to make sure your students are motivated and engaged? A great lesson planning tip is to ask yourself, "What activities can my students do?" and "What subjects particularly interest them?]]></description>
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<title>Time Management Tips: Evaluate Your Lesson Plan in Light of Your Objectives and Goals</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:08:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a teacher, you probably spend hours preparing lesson plans yet how many times do you actually consider the importance of including goals and objectives on your lesson plan? Any good lesson plan needs at least one goal and objective which should be feasible and realistic since so much of your lesson plan depends on what happened the lesson before.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Resolutions for 2011: Don't Get Stuck in a Teaching Rut!</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:21:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After the excitement of the New Year settles in, it's time to get back into a routine. For many teachers that means managing precious time planning lessons, assessing, collaborating with other teachers, talking at parent teacher conferences among many other things. To avoid getting into a teaching rut, it is absolutely vital to make sure your material is fresh and exciting and you're engaging students the best way you possibly can.]]></description>
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<title>What Are You Doing to Manage a Classroom AND Your Stress Levels?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:57:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Managing a classroom IS stressful no matter how you look at it, but it is possible to enter the classroom feel less stressed if you have an effective classroom management plan to control student behavior. Of course, students will "act up" much less if your lesson is tightly planned and you have given enough thought about how to cater to your students' diverse learning needs.]]></description>
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<title>Teaching Strategies That Promote Active Learning in Secondary Classrooms</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:26:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As I read on the forums more and more requests from secondary teachers on how to deal with ongoing discipline problems, I'm firmly convinced that engaging our students' attention fully for an entire class period is a very challenging task. As a secondary school educator, you may feel you are in competition with the entertainment value of popular culture, the Internet, the music industry and television which are all very real. Our students are used to attractive and fast paced entertainment and as a result, grow restless when they are expected to concentrate for a long time.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips: How Are You Maximizing Lesson Planning Time?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:49:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Time management tips help you establish a working planning schedule to plan for your students' success. By using time management tips, you can manage to teach a lot in every single lesson - or at least every week. There are many teachers out there who don't teach quiet cooperative classrooms without distractions and interruptions.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips: Strategies for Teaching ELL Students Effectively</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:26:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every good lesson is built on what students know. By providing ELLs (English language learners) with unique learning experiences, activities and assessments, each student can reach his/her potential. Conducting ongoing formal and informal pretests is crucial for customizing lessons and ultimately, making learning fun.]]></description>
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<title>Strategies on How to Improve Your ESL Students' Comprehension</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:51:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest skills for an English language learner to acquire is deeper comprehension. Many academic texts assume students have the cultural, social and textual knowledge to understand the "gist" of the text.]]></description>
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<title>Lesson Planning Tips and Tricks: What Teachers Can Do to Motivate Challenging Students</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:11:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Each of our students carries an "emotion backpack" on their backs as they enter your lessons. When we have them look forward to our lessons, they will carry that backpack with intrigue, laughs, feeling/recollection of success and achievement having understood a difficult concept for the first time.]]></description>
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<title>Why Fun Lessons Are NOT the Answer to Solving Discipline Problems</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:38:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes teachers may think that the answer to solving discipline problems and getting students' attention is to create fun lessons. Having fun lessons isn't enough to transform your challenging students into miraculous motivating students. Teachers need a good understanding of other key classroom management skills.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tip: Turn Those Textbook Units Into Lessons!</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:47:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Remember the image of the teacher standing in front of the class with a textbook, sometimes high enough to shield vision from the students? Those actions were sometimes a recipe for a lesson plan backfiring on me, because I taught the material, not the students.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips on Planning Differentiated Reading Activities for Mixed Ability Classes</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:46:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ELLs are encouraged to make individual book selections according to level and interest from the school/public library. In any one class, a wide range of reading ability is "valid". Teachers can also opt for silent reading in class which can bridge to home reading.]]></description>
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<title>Adapting the Textbook to Teach Vocabulary to ELLs</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:31:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[English language learners in mainstream classrooms represent one example of mixed ability classes. Differences among our students are apparent to us all - differences in style, personality, motivation, culture and background knowledge, and in life experience.]]></description>
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<title>Lesson Planning Tips on Differentiating Reading Instruction for Struggling ELLs</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:24:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reading lessons for ELLs should focus on using vocabulary practice and building reading skills. In a general education classroom, teachers should differentiate instruction to ensure that all groups of ELLs including those struggling ELLs are consistently engaged.]]></description>
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<title>Classroom Management Tip: Plan Smarter Not Harder</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:17:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[New teachers easily become overwhelmed by the amount of new school year planning and organization. New teachers encounter so many new and overwhelming situations that it makes much more sense to have a plan that allows for flexibility and change.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips on How to Use Jigsaw Reading Activities to Cater to Mixed Ability Classes</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:10:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jigsaw reading and STAD are two types of cooperative learning activities that teachers should be encouraged to use in their mixed ability classes. Both of these activities are fun and educational that ultimately encourage students to work according to their level and ability in a non-threatening way.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips: Are You Doing All That You Can to Succeed?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:59:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You can add to your professional growth by observing and reflecting on what goes on in their classrooms. For example, new and experienced teachers often don't know if they managed to teach their struggling students successfully.]]></description>
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<title>How To Survive and Thrive in The Classroom: Today's Tip for Teachers</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:56:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you want to appeal to students more effectively and be able to take control of classroom management problems, then you need to start understanding how classroom management and relationships support each other. After all, how can you expect students to respect you and what you have to teach, if you are still worried about looking professional and intelligent in front of students to gain their respect? Often new teachers do this because they think they need to save face.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips: Preventive Classroom Management Checklist</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:21:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Years ago, at my first teaching post in Israel, I was given five classes consisting mainly of lower performing learners. I was fresh out of teaching college. No preparation could adequately help me with coping with 30 rambunctious teenagers, each vying for attention.]]></description>
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<title>Today's Lesson Planning Tip on How to Appeal to Students of Diverse Classrooms</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:42:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Once you've assessed the ability level and prior knowledge of your students, and distributed questionnaires on reading styles and interests, expectations, and learning styles, then figure out how you can best embrace these areas in your lesson plan. Then experiment using a few diverse teaching techniques.]]></description>
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<title>New Teaching Tips: How to Engage and Motivate Adult ESL Learners</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:28:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many of the skills ESL teachers have to teach adults are skills they have not acquired in their own language. Yet, teachers are required to do this in a second language. Many of the skills require a deep cognitive awareness which some students don't have. Here are some ideas to help you solve that problem.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Success Paths: Monitor Your Stress Talk!</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:23:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stressful teaching situations such as coping with discipline problems often get in the way in terms of what messages teachers say to themselves. New teachers waste A LOT of time sending negative messages to themselves particularly when it comes to effectively manage a classroom.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips: How Well Do You Empower Your Students?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:55:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As teachers, we need to find ways to empower our students - many who come from diverse backgrounds and abilities. The best way to do this is to provide unique learning experiences that engage students from the VERY beginning of a lesson and for that matter, from the first day of school. When we are able to do this consistently, we can also help guide them to become more self-directed.]]></description>
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<title>5 Ways to Empower Your Students</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:47:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As teachers, we need to find ways to empower our students - many who come from diverse backgrounds and abilities. The best way to do this is to provide unique learning experiences that engage students from the VERY beginning of a lesson and for that matter, from the first day of school. When we are able to do this consistently, we can also help guide them to become more self-directed.]]></description>
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<title>Strategies for Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:02:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By using teaching strategies for differentiation, teachers are more likely to appeal to various levels of reading and learning styles with their English language learners. When adapting activities for English language learners, teachers may wish to consider using differentiated teaching strategies.]]></description>
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<title>Do You Have a Bag of Tricks to Cope With Classroom Management Issues?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:52:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A teacher makes an endless decisions every minute of the day. Many of these decisions happen on the spot and require quick responses. Always have a bag of tricks for different classroom situations.]]></description>
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<title>The Trick to Becoming a Successful and Confident Teacher</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:23:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many new teachers are baffled when they see experienced and seasoned teachers acting in control. They think the best way to be a successful and confident teacher they've always wanted to be is to imitate other teachers' teaching and classroom management styles.]]></description>
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<title>Write Your Teaching Affirmations and See Your Lessons Soar!</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/5053686</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:18:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Because becoming a successful and confident teacher takes a lot of hard work, you have got to be prepared to do anything to succeed. In many classroom situations and dilemmas, you probably think you know what you need to do to teach more effectively. But there is one roadblock making your job a bit harder. There is one thing that you prefer not to do whatever that reason might be.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips - What Is Your Intent?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:15:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's Monday again and for some teachers that can either mean drudgery or a renewed sense of possibility. When I'm feeling stuck, I look at my teaching/writing plan. How many goals have I personalized?]]></description>
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<title>Are You Sticking With Your Lesson Plan?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:04:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As Suzanne Lieurance from the Working Writer's Coaching Program says, "On good days, writers keep going. On bad days, they stick with it." How true this is for teachers, and for that matter, for anybody!]]></description>
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<title>How Teachers Can Collaborate on Assessments for Supporting Their English Language Learner</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/5015089</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:22:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When teachers collaborate on assessments, they are more likely to target the areas of instruction that will most benefit their English language learners. Collaborating on testing materials between ESL and general education teachers is most effective when there is a need to provide some kind of instructional support specific to English language learners either in an ESL support or in a general education setting.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips - Oral Diagnostic Assessments for ELLs</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/5007735</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:05:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oral diagnostic assessment is an effective way for teachers to assess the reading abilities of their ELLs in addition to provide instructional support for struggling ELLs. Some English language learners may not be up to standards of the targeted reading goals, which is why teachers should consider using oral diagnostic assessments to evaluate the performance of those ELLs who are at-risk or struggling in some categories of reading and decoding, but are progressing in others.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips - How You Can Empower Your Students After a Test</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:55:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While a good test should assess how well students may have processed targeted learning skills, the only way to ensure students are engaged and on-task is by mapping those original skills against the student progress. Mapping provides teachers with concrete evidence as they assess how to improve students' learning and ultimately, teacher's instruction. This process involves first mapping problematic areas of student learning and then using that targeted information to engage their students more effectively.]]></description>
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<title>Teaching Without the Stress of Discipline Problems</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:29:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I go subbing to new schools, I always notice that many teachers complain of the stress of teaching and how many discipline problems they have in their classrooms. First, new and seasoned teachers who are just starting to build a relationship with students in the classroom are frustrated that they can't really teach and the discipline problems simply wear them down. Almost always they end up reporting students' behavior in the hallways and in the teacher's lounge.]]></description>
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<title>New Teachers - Wear Different Glasses to Help With Discipline Problems</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4856613</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:58:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What kind of glasses are you wearing today? I'm talking about the glasses that help you see things up close or far away.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips - Encourage Your Students to Be Successful and on Task!</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4856639</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:55:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are your students truly paying attention to you? Are you forever struggling with classroom management issues (i.e., student behavior, students disrespect, or other disciplinary problems)? Do you sometimes get the feeling that your students are doing you a favor by opening their books and notebooks at the start of a lesson but don't really participate in the lesson?]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips - How to Get and Maintain Students' Attention</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4856544</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/4856544</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:34:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a new teacher, you need to do something to maintain the attention of students all the time. But, as a new teacher, the challenge is to engage their immediate attention right away.]]></description>
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<title>New Teachers - Should You Overplan Your Lessons?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4856567</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:04:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The question is out: how many of you new teachers (1-5 years of teaching experience) in fact overplan your lessons? As a new teacher 12 years ago, I overplanned my lessons constantly in order to ensure that ALL students were engaged even if it meant restructuring the lesson. In general, overplanning is a good habit to develop especially when they are used as back-up plans to support parts or even an entire lesson.]]></description>
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<title>Tips on Breaking Through Writer's Block</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:29:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many writers have said I have a fertile imagination. But what good is a fertile imagination when trying to write through writer's block?]]></description>
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<title>Modification Reading Strategies For New Teachers</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:47:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are various ways to provide modified reading assignments for struggling students, especially English language learners in mixed ability classes. By understanding how modification strategies work, teachers can wrestle more effectively with questions such as: How can I scaffold content for lower performing readers?" and "How can I provide instruction for all levels of student reading proficiency?]]></description>
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<title>Reflective Journals Build Effective Instruction</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:22:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In their first few years of teaching, some teachers may find they still do not have answers to many unsettling classroom learning issues and situations which can cause great stress and ultimately, burn-out. One way to take control of the situation is for teachers to keep a reflective learning log, which can help them vent and at the same time, help them become better teachers.]]></description>
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<title>Meeting K-12 Instructional Goals</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:14:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is not always easy for new teachers to know how to engage struggling students. The instructional goals for these students are to help them learn at a pace they can achieve.Teachers can set the stage for successful instruction by learning the areas that students can and can't do.]]></description>
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<title>How to Help K-2 ELLs Achieve Reading Proficiency</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 13:55:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Often no transitional group exists for English language learners entering general education classrooms. These grade K-2 students are expected to comprehend text on the same level as their English speaking peers. Teachers and students must move at a rapid pace to maintain grade level expectations.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Strategies and Tips to Improve a Classroom Climate</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4207894</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 17:50:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The need for acceptance and respect is overlooked in many classrooms. It is sometimes difficult to accept the behavior of a given student, but the teacher should never communicate a lack of acceptance of the learner as an individual.]]></description>
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<title>Building Fluency For Struggling ELLs</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4172176</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/4172176</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:10:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Text-based instruction is used as means for teaching and assessing to what degree students are able to access information. Yet, many struggling English language learners, especially those in the upper elementary and middle school grades, have trouble making word and text-based connections successfully - something their native English speaking peers are able to do more with ease. ]]></description>
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<title>3 Tips For Effective Classroom Management</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:33:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are you doing well in your classroom and where do you need to improve? These tips focus on a different aspect of teaching and classroom management. The purpose is to reinforce the good you are already doing while clarifying areas in your classroom management and instruction that may have interfered in your ability to teach successfully.]]></description>
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<title>Ideas For Celebrating Israel Independence Day</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:30:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Israel Independence Day is Israel's birthday. On this day, the Jewish people both in Israel and outside of Israel, remember the people who worked hard to build its nation.]]></description>
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<title>Important Holiday Traditions of Shavuot</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:10:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, Jewish homes and synagogues are filled with fresh flowers to welcome the spring harvest of the first fruits. Shavuot was the day the people of Israel received the Torah.]]></description>
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<title>Parenting Tips on How to Foster Self-Esteem in Young Children</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/4050322</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/4050322</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:00:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When a child feels sad or upset, the best way for a parent or caregiver to respond is to capitalize on the moment without acting on his/her impulse to "fix" a situation. When adults do this consistently, they rob their children of solving their own difficult situations, which fosters self-doubt.]]></description>
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<title>New Teachers Use Twitter to Get Help and Advice</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:07:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In their first years, teachers work hard to build supportive relationships with other teachers. More new teachers are using Twitter to both network and tweet with more experienced teachers and coaches. Twitter provides a direct source of professional support and an online learning community for new teachers who lack mentoring support and coaching in their school districts.]]></description>
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<title>Easy to Make Matza Recipes During the Passover Holiday</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3975104</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:59:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How will you prepare matza recipes during this eight day Jewish holiday? Check out these quick matza Passover recipes.]]></description>
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<title>Tips to Build Positive Reading Relationships and Promote Literacy Skills</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3970588</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:06:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To encourage and promote literacy, teachers need to take into account not just the reading ability factor but respect their students' various cultural and educational backgrounds. Use the principles described in this approach as a guide to help you foster positive reading relationships and encourage language developments. ]]></description>
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<title>21 Ways to Become a Good Teacher by Networking With Other Teachers Online</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3920670</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:50:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Teachers are constantly under time and curriculum constraints which is why online networking can be such an important way for professional development. Creating time to network with other teachers will ultimately help you become a better teacher. You'll be able to share information and resources with other teachers who are devoted and passionate about teaching and perhaps learn a bit about yourself along the way.]]></description>
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<title>Ten Ways to Become an Empowering Teacher</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3920681</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3920681</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:43:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's tough enough for new teachers to juggle between classroom management and lesson planning. Discipline problems can often wear you down leaving you stressed and doubting your successes.]]></description>
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<title>Interview With Teacher, Michelle Barone - Tips on How to Manage a Classroom Effectively</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3920697</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:08:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Principal, teacher, and children's Author, Michelle Barone talks about her teaching and writing career. Dorit: Hello Michelle, I want to thank you so much for taking time to take part in this interview. I guess I could say that being busy is an understatement for you.]]></description>
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<title>Best ESL Grammar and Speaking Tips - What If You Taught ESL Learners to Speak More Communicatively?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3917073</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3917073</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:23:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Often ESL learners are worried that when they learn new structures and forms in a target language, they "getting it right." Teaching form or accuracy is just as important as "getting the meaning across" which is both of fluency. fluency emphasizes meaning and accuracy emphasizes form and structure. However, accuracy is developed through fluency, which is why in our teaching, we should strive to provide the best method that caters to both these principles.]]></description>
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<title>Best ESL Vocabulary Teaching Practices - What If You Gave the Context First?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3904371</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3904371</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:24:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Understanding new vocabulary or a new text is an important measure of an ESL student's academic success. To be able to know a word means they need to use it through communicative competence or, by speaking, listening and reading the new word in various contexts. Research shows that the best way to learn a new word is through discovery of the meaning of the word.]]></description>
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<title>Tips For Using Successful Classroom Management Systems</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3835621</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/3835621</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:56:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Still struggling with difficult students? Successful classroom management systems provide students with guidelines for becoming self-directed in their behavior.]]></description>
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<title>Making Authentic Instruction Fun - Real-Life Situations Motivate Students to Learn New Skills</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/3808113</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:42:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Students who aren't motivated usually don't feel there is a purpose to their learning, which is often the reason why discipline problems occur. Fun authentic instruction provides students with real-life learning experiences that are connected to learning both in and out of the classroom. ]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips on How to Deal With Difficult Students</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:03:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Last week I listened to a wonderful webinar on "Dealing with Difficult Students," by an experienced educator who talked about fostering relationships based on good content and patterns. I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about and have confronted this before. We create "scripts" in our heads or bad patterns based on the stories students tell us.]]></description>
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<title>10 Tips For Checking Comprehension With English Language Learners (ELLs)</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:11:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discipline problems usually occur when students are faced with a complicated task and don't know what to do. Teachers can offset a majority of discipline related issues by monitoring how well their students absorb the information. You want to engage your English language learners (ELLs) so they are constantly on-task even if they don't know a lot of English.]]></description>
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<title>Successful Strategic Teaching Techniques - Engaging Activities Put the Focus on Students' Success</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:33:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Strategic teaching is a complex activity and one of the more important skills new teachers need to know in order for their students to perform successfully. Discipline problems usually occur when students find a task too challenging, unclear, or doesn't speak to them. And when students become off-task, teachers become frustrated and discouraged by their efforts.]]></description>
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<title>Parenting Tips For Nurturing Early Literacy</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:58:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is truly the simple things that are important for nurturing the literacy experience of young toddler children. As young children develop more oral skills, they become more aware of the world around them.]]></description>
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<title>Caregiver and Health Tips For Coping With Alzheimer's Type Dementia</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:50:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Alzheimer's type dementia is one of the most debilitating mental diseases. It robs a person of his or her personality. From the very beginning stages of the disease, a person slowly loses his or her ability to perform basic functions like as holding a fork or getting dressed.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips For Supporting ADHD English Language Learners (ELLs) In a Whole Class Framework</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:16:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Building a connection with the diagnosed ADHD English language learners can be tricky especially with relatively new arrivals and young ELLs. This article will briefly describe the problems, early struggles and troubleshooting techniques.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips - How to Make Adult ESL Students Feel More Comfortable in the Classroom</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:46:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many adult ESL learners are often afraid of making a mistake when it comes to communicating in a second or foreign language and as a result, remain silent. Often this trepidation comes from fearing being corrected. Now teachers can use the knowledge of error correction to engage adult ESL learners more effectively.]]></description>
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<title>New Teacher Tips - How to Rejuvenate Your Mind and Your Spirit During a Holiday Vacation</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:15:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You've worked hard for your teacher pay and summer or any holiday vacation. Teachers' minds and bodies need this rest even if it is just a one day holiday. This article will give you restful tips for making the most of your precious time away from the classroom.]]></description>
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