Teaching Articles

1). How To Write The Best Teacher Resume You Can By : Laura Adams
It should come as no surprise that there is a currently a shortage of teachers in the United States. This unfortunate trend has been seen for well over a decade. To compound the issue, recent labor studies have predicted that teaching positions will likely continue to grow faster than the national average for the next several years due to recent government regulations to reduce class size and increase educational accountability.
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2). The 3 P’s: Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis By : Gina J. Hiatt, PhD
Do you set your standards high, but always feel like you've failed? Learn about the 3 "P's" and end the vicious cycle that keeps you stuck and ineffective. The Vicious Cycle Perfectionism, procrastination, and paralysis – one often leads to the next, in a vicious cycle, especially on large, long-term projects with no clear deadlines. Let’s look at each part of this cycle, and explore some concrete steps that you can take to disrupt the cycle.
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3). Reading Strategies For Struggling Readers By : Peter Waycik
Struggling readers are simply individuals who have not learned effective reading strategies. Don't be too concerned if you aren't familiar with the term, "reading strategies;" most good readers never had to learn them; instead, they just use them naturally. Struggling readers, on the other hand, have no idea how their friends can finish their work before they make it through the first paragraph.
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4). Learning Math With Manipulatives - Base Ten Blocks (Part III) By : Peter Waycik
In the first two parts, representing, adding, and subtracting numbers using base ten blocks were explained. The use of base ten blocks gives students an effective tool that they can touch and manipulate to solve math questions. Not only are base ten blocks effective at solving math questions, they teach students important steps and skills that translate directly into paper and pencil methods of solving math questions.
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5). Flexible Estimation in Math By : Peter Waycik
Adults use rounding and estimation in their everyday lives. They approximate the temperature, the cost of items, the time, and even their age. Consider this conversation: "How much did it cost to fix your car?" "Six hundred bucks!" Without any words such as: about, approximately, around, roughly, or nearly, it can be assumed that the second person rounded the actual cost.
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6). Learning And Teaching Social Skills: A Relationship-Based Approach By : Adam Cox
For those of us committed to helping children overcome learning challenges, the quest to teach social skills is particularly important. Social learning impairments are associated with a wide variety of learning disabilities, although they are especially problematic for people with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD), noted to have underdeveloped right-hemisphere.
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7). Music And Your Child’s Development By : Jennifer Tarzian
As the mother of a two year old, I am always looking for activities that encourage learning and development. I find that most of the activities we do together that result in learning are purely by coincidence and luck – not by any skill or training I have. As of late, my son has shown a real passion for music. He has even begun to differentiate between styles of music he likes and dislikes – his preferences are Contemporary Christian and Country, of course those both fall behind any song done by The Wiggles.
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8). Teach Your First Grader How To Spell By : Lisa Scott
Our education begins from the day we're born. While we don't immediately plunge into school, we're constantly exposed to new things that help develop our minds. Academics are only part of our long journey to knowledge. By the time we enter kindergarten, we are ready to begin the reading and writing aspects, but at a slow and steady pace. Too much too soon can overwhelm and confuse us.
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9). ESL Jobs FAQ By : Josef Essberger
Are there really any ESL jobs for me? Yes, there are. Rightly or wrongly, the whole world wants to learn English. People everywhere, especially young people, are convinced that speaking good English is their passport to a successful career. What is more, they are being encouraged in this by many governments. Worldwide, there are many more ESL jobs than there are native-speaking EFL teachers to fill them (though it should not be forgotten that English is also taught by perfectly competent non-native teachers).
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10). Get It Out Of Your Head And Into a Mind Map By : Gina J. Hiatt, PhD
Do you ever feel like you have some great ideas, but when you sit down to write them, they're not so great? Or even worse, you can't really get a sense of what the ideas were? In one of my graduate student coaching groups we have been discussing the difficulty of translating partly formed ideas into words on paper. One technique that makes use of a normally underutilized part of our brain is called "Mind Mapping.
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11). The Perseverance of Teaching Yoga (Part 2) By : Paul M. Jerard Jr.
If I visualize becoming a Yoga teacher without any action, then this is just a "pipe dream." You would be better off to dream in your sleep and take action while you are awake.
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12). The Perseverance of Teaching Yoga (Part 1) By : Paul M. Jerard Jr.
Why do talented students fall short of becoming Yoga teachers? Ever notice that "quick flashes" of brilliance disappear in a short time.
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13). How to Teach Yoga in the Corporate Marketplace (Part 2) By : Paul M. Jerard Jr.
This prepares you when you talk to the public about what you do. To state: “I teach Yoga classes,” is not enough of an explanation - if the person you talk to has a mental picture of Yoga as just a bunch of pretzel poses, displayed by show-offs.
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14). 15 Strategies For Enhancing Memory By : Glenda Thorne, Ph.D.
The following strategies are offered to help students develop a more efficient and effective memory. This listing is by no means exhaustive, but rather is meant as a place to begin. 1. Take the mystery away. The first and perhaps most important strategy is to insure that all students understand how memory works and identify their particular profiles of memory strengths and challenges.
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15). Basic Strategies And Tactics On Chess By : Robert Michael
Improving your Chess Strategy Chess is a game about strategy and tactics above all. Each player commands an army of 16 chess pieces. In the opening, the players bring up their forces as they prepare for battle. Players maneuver for strategic positions and carry out attacks and counterattacks in the middle game. During the endgame is when, with fewer pawns and pieces left on the board, it's finally safe for kings to come out and join the combat.
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16). Emergency Lesson Plans, Real Lifesaving Tools for Teachers By : Frank Holes Jr.
Everyone gets those situations in life where an emergency has come up, and you don't have the time (or sometimes the ability) to get a good lesson plan in to school for your students. Maybe you have a family emergency or a disrupted travel plan and you just cannot get into school to leave detailed lessons. That is why it is essential for you to have an emergency lesson plan available and handy.
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17). Teaching - A Survival Guide for Students and New Teachers (Part 2) By : Ventura
The advice may sound silly, but take notice anyway, because it is based on 28 years of teaching experience and listening to students discussing teachers’ appearances. When you start teaching your life will be much easier if you conform to student expectations. The time to be different is after you have established yourself. Children are very traditional in their expectations of what teachers should wear.
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18). Teaching Hatha Yoga: Assisting, Demonstrating, and Verbally Cueing By : Paul M. Jerard Jr.
There are many methods for teaching Yoga, but students either learn by seeing, feeling, hearing, or a combination of senses. With this in mind, there is no right or wrong method, but Yoga teachers should be aware that some students may have a dominant sense when it comes to learning.
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19). Struggling Readers: The Struggles By : Peter Waycik
Struggling readers have a number of barriers to their success that can be overcome if they are properly understood and addressed. Left unchecked, these barriers can grow into an unmanageable weight for both the student and the educators who are trying to help them. 1. The Experience Struggle Ten chances to one, a struggling reader will not have much book experience.
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20). Modeling Student Behavior By : Frank Holes Jr.
Whether you as a teacher realize it or not, you are the best model of behavior in your classroom. A large part of your proactive behavior plans should include your own behavior you demonstrate to the students every day. You must set expectations for your students, demonstrate the behaviors, and be vigilant to correct the kids. Don't waver on your expectations; inconsistencies will only confuse the students and cause you more problems.
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21). How to find the right Yoga teacher? By : Paul M. Jerard Jr.

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22). What Are The Best Ways Of Teaching Spelling? By : Teresa Styles
It seems that most studies of teaching spelling begin at the same place: a child’s understanding of communication begins with sound. From infancy they are surrounded by sounds, which become words. As they are exposed to printed text, they learn to associate phonemes, the sounds they here with graphemes, the visual representation of those words. Toddlers who are exposed to the alphabet are usually fascinated with the letters.
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23). Should All Subjects Be Homeschooled Equally? By : Christopher Byrnes
A brief look at the teaching and assessment requirements of homeschooling.
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24). Can You Draw a Perfect Hexagon? By : Peter Waycik
It may not sound like a difficult task, but constructing hexagons and other polygons can be a frustrating and daunting task for children and adults. A sketch of a square is fairly simple to make as the corners are familiar right angles that most people have no trouble creating. Every other regular polygon from equilateral triangles to dodecagons and beyond can be a challenge without a highly developed ability to recognize and construct a variety of angles.
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25). Making Genius By : Victor Pryles
In his excellent book: "Scientific Genius, Dean Keith Simonton of the USC-Davis, suggests that genuises are forming more novel combinations than the merely talented. His theory has etymology behind it: Cogito- "I think"- orginally connoted "shake together". Intelligo, the root of intelligence, means to "select among". This is a clear early indication about the utility of permitting ideas and thoughts to randomly combine with each other and selecting from the many the few to retain.
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