Chanukah, also known as the 'Festival of Lights', is celebrated over eight days beginning on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev. This article gives many ideas to help integrate teaching about Chanukah into your classroom.

The holidays are upon us and more than likely your students are getting anxious. Here is an article that describes how you can integrate the holidays into your classroom.

We will close our look at the concerns of teachers from different curriculum areas by looking at the concerns of math teachers. While the concerns of the teachers across the curriculum share some similarities, the fact is that each area has issues that they face which others might not understand or have to deal with on a daily basis. Hopefully, but looking at the concerns that are different across the curriculum, teachers will gain a greater understanding of what their colleagues face on a day-to-day basis.

Top 10 Concerns of Math Teachers

So far we have looked at the concerns of social studies and science teachers. This week we will focus on the concerns that many language arts teachers share.

Top Ten Concerns of English Teachers

What can you do with five minutes left in class? Instead of just allowing the students to chat or get a head start on their homework, you can spend that time doing something worthwhile and educational. Here is a wonderful article that explains several mini-lesson plans to keep your students occupied after you are done with your daily lesson and still have time remaining.

Studies have shown that reviewing previously learned information on a daily basis is very important to long term retention. Beginning and end of the class can help any teacher become more effective in his/her teaching style.  This article takes a look at the importance of daily review and provides guidance and ideas for those wishing to implement or supplement their review methods.

Integrate Thanksgiving across the curriculum with these lesson plans and ideas for fun and learning. Learn about topics ranging from history to computer science to drama.

In the last post, I focused on concerns that many science teachers share. This post focuses on the specific concerns of social studies teachers. 

Top Ten Concerns of Social Studies Teachers

While all curriculum areas share some of the same issues and concerns, individual curriculum areas seem to also have concerns specific to them and their courses. Over the next few weeks, I'll be focusing on the concerns of teachers in the four major curriculum areas. This list looks at the top ten concerns of science teachers.

Looking for a few tips on how to teach or write essays? I've got a solution. This step-by-step guide will assist you in writing an effective five paragraph essay. Once students have this down, they can move on to more complicated essay formats.