Comments for Teacher Created Tips

Comment on Tips for Lesson Plan Sharing by Trisha Holmes

Trisha Holmes — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:08:43 +0000

Amy, what a great way to summarize what we do as multiple disability teachers within the program. Hopefully others will see the importance of making learning fun, not just for students with disabilites, but for all learners!!

Comment on Pandemonium With Purpose: Teaching Vocabulary and My Secret Weapon by Kaylee's Education Studio

Kaylee's Education Studio — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:24:13 +0000

This is a great activity. I’ve seen a variation of this game wher students where told a word and then had to fly swat which part of speech it was. (i.e. noun, pronoun, adjective, etc. .)

I liked your version because you get more students involved with each word.

Comment on Pandemonium With Purpose: Teaching Vocabulary and My Secret Weapon by Ina Levin

Ina Levin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:32:32 +0000

Thank you for your comment. We certainly never want to offend or upset anyone. The page has been fixed.

Comment on Pandemonium With Purpose: Teaching Vocabulary and My Secret Weapon by stephanie

stephanie — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:50:28 +0000

This is a warning to any teachers using the Daily Warmups reading book for Second Grade….I am a parent and I just read the “Babe Ruth” biography worksheet from this book, which my 8 year old daughter completed and has at home (she has not yet turned it in). This biography contains the following sentences, describing Babe Ruth:

“His mother and father did not want him, so they sent him away. His father put him in a home with other children – an orphanage. No one wanted any of them.”

The first question of the three multiple choice questions that follows this little story is the following:

1. What is the name of a home that takes children that no one wants? (the correct answer is of course, “an orphanage.”)

The second question of the multiple choice asks:

2. From this passage, we can guess that…..
a. Babe was a bad boy
b. the thing that Babe did best was play baseball.
etc….

This is incredibly shocking that this kind of information would be allowed to be published in teaching materials for children. My child is adopted and spent almost 2 years in an orphanage in a third world country. Her experience there was decent. Her birth mother wanted her very much! It was just that she had to decide if her child should survive, eat, drink clean water, possibly go to school, get medical care, etc…and so she placed her in an orphanage. Most of these mothers would like to keep their children. Many of these childrens’ parents are dead.

I have shared this with other adoptive mothers on groups that I belong to and they are livid and shocked. Children with orphanage pasts and abandonment issues could be very emotionally damaged by reading this kind of thing in their schoolwork, as they are supposed to trust that what they read and learn in school is fact and truth. Not to mention that this is not the info we want to impart to our non-adopted children who will then have this view of their adopted classmates.

I am leaving this comment as a warning to all teachers or parents reading this, to PULL THIS STORY from the Daily Warmups book. I would also screen all other stories from these books, as I notice they contain a lot of biographies and historical information. It is my hope that TeacherCreated.com will send out a notice to all customers who have purchased this book and tell them to pull and trash this Babe Ruth story. I assume it will be IMMEDIATELY recalled and rewritten. I hope to see this notice go out on their facebook page as well.

Thank you

Comment on Tips for Starting a Classroom Blog by Alicia Sbarbati

Alicia Sbarbati — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:01:40 +0000

Quite useful tips!!
Thank you for sharing them.

Comment on 20 Money-Saving Ideas for Teachers by Li

Li — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:31:43 +0000

Check out teachingscholarsandsavingdollars.blogspot.com for some free and/ or cheap homemade ideas

Comment on Classroom Birthday Celebrations: What Happened to the Fun? by Kathy Cox

Kathy Cox — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:11:30 +0000

I agree that the fun is being taken from our schools. In my class we celebrate the birthday on the week that the student is our class Celebrity. If the student’s bday is on a sat. we celebrate it on the Friday before or the monday after depending which week they are the celeb. If the birthday is on a day we are in school, our bell work is to create a bcard for the birthday student. Then sometime we have 5 minutes during class or need a break, we sing happy birthday in a style the bday child chooses. It can be silly style, robot style, fish style, monster style, teacher style(MY FAV) etc. If the student chooses a style that I am not familiar with, they explain how to sing it. I am always excited to see their ideas. Also it is optional, but parents are welcome to visit and read a story or share something of interest about the child. Bday treats are also and option. Some do and some don’t. This has worked for my class for many years. We all have a great time.

Comment on Finding Time by Marian

Marian — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:40:35 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed your blog. Though I am not a teacher, I have discovered the same concept works for me at home. After dinner, I turn my two tabletop clocks around so that I don’t know the time I go to bed. When I get up early in the morning I have no idea how much sleep I have gotten. This helps me because when I do know I seem to feel more tired.

Comment on Yup, My Dog Has a Blog by Korie M.

Korie M. — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:02:54 +0000

I love the idea of creating a blog from the perspective of an animal. I teach 2nd grade and am just starting to experiment with a site called Schoology (https://www.schoology.com/home.php) which has a blog feature among other things. I think I might adapt your idea to use in my classroom. Thanks for sharing!

Comment on Young Engineers: 21st Century Skills in Early Childhood Classrooms by mara

mara — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:15:35 +0000

Thank you Brenda,

I agree, it is so exciting to watch and listen to young children building and creating, and know that they are learning on so many levels. The more time we allow for project-based learning, the more opportunities we provide for students to practice collaborating and other necessary 21st century skills. I think that engineering-based activities allow for so much creativity, too. I love hearing bits and pieces of language dropped in that reflect what their parents do for a living, or what they might have learned in class or via TV, etc.

I am working on that Early Engineering idea! Do you have some suggestions?

Thank you for your support!