Best Teaching Practices and the New Educational Paradigm
Are you feeling like teaching is getting a bit more challenging? Maybe, you're enjoying teaching and would like it to get even better, but you don't know what to do. Well, you've come to the right place!
Learn about best teaching practices and how to increase the amount of learning, enjoyment and compassion in your classroom.
Technology & Information Age Education Strategies
- Information Age Education Blog
- Learn about how to integrate technology to enhance learning and get your students jazzed. Also discover ways to create the classroom you'd like to have using a variety of conscious creation tools using things such as the Law of Attraction.
- Education in the Information Age
- This article by Dr. Rod Reigle, Professor of Education at Illinois State University, has a compelling comparison of education in the Industrial Age versus Information Age. It provides a vision, a direction and a possibility for the future of education. It's worth reading.
Asking "Why?" Can Change Your Students' Lives
The Universe responds to questions. I've known this for years, and this week I really started to play with it. The question I was asking all week is "Why does money flow to me so easily?" In four days, I generated $470 of additional income, a teaching award and 4 gifts. I also received an email from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, which serves over 100,000 math teachers, that informed me that my integers website, www.squidoo.com/integers/, will be included in their March "News Bulletin."
On Thursday I told my students about my manifesting experience and the power of questions. We talked about the type of questions that normally people ask. They tend to be negative questions and the Universe answers those - unwittingly. You've probably heard some of these:
* Why am I so bad at math?
* Why do I always get in trouble and XY doesn't?
* Why do you always pick on me?
* Why can't I ever find my homework?
* Why do teachers get paid so little?
* Why can't I loose weight?
We practiced asking some different questions.
* Why am I so organized?
* Why is it easy for me to concentrate in class?
* Why do I love school?
* Why do I get such great grades?
At the end of the period, one of my students who really struggles with math called me over and said, "Ms. Newburn, I totally get how to do this. I did it all by myself. I didn't even need any help." Then he threw his arms open wide and said, "Why does math come so easily to me?" grinning broadly.
Yes, I made extra money this week by asking questions from "The Great Little Book of Afformations" and this ah-ha by my student was priceless!
The Great Little Book of Afformations (All-New, Expanded Edition)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/10/2009) 
Creating a Conscious Classroom
Practical Classroom Strategies
Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
Learn about the Law of Attraction, the fundamental law that rules your life, whether you know about it or not. The Law of Attraction says that what you give your attention to, you create more of in your life. Learn 22 powerful processes to create the life you want to have with ease! Use it with your students to have a joyful, productive and fun learning environment.
Amazon Price: $10.76 (as of 11/10/2009)
Conscious Classroom Management: Unlocking the Secrets of Great Teaching
A great book by Rick Smith that gives practical examples about how to create a conscious classroom and increase student accountability.
Amazon Price: (as of 11/10/2009)
Think-Pair-Share-Write
For more about Think-Pair-Share activities, visit my blog, www.information-age-education.com.
Teacher Resources: Think-Pair-Share Hand Signals
Visit http://www.information-age-education.com for more teacher resources. Use Think-pair-share activities to engage students, increase involvement, address multiple intelligences and support language acquisition for second language learners. It's fun and easy to do. For more teacher resources, check out my blog, www.information-age-education.com.
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Educational YouTube Videos and On-Line Alternatives
- Download YouTube Videos for Use at School
- Here is a way to download YouTube videos so you can share them with your students.
- Metacafe, an Alternative to YouTube
- Metacafe.com is similar to YouTube. Read this article to learn about some interesting similarities and important differences between the two companies. I'll let you know one difference here: Metacafe isn't blocked at schools!
I've started uploading my videos to both sites. I always use "rebecca newburn" as tags so people can easily find them. - Educational YouTube Videos
- This article is a fun read about how I inadvertently got started making YouTube videos and how that lead to me creating some excellent YouTube groups for math students and teachers. Links to my YouTube Vedic Math and Math Tutor groups are in the article, as well as a links to my first videos. Can you guess what they were about?
Cooperative Learning How-To Sites (Plexo)
These sites have some nice overviews of different cooperative learning activities.
DoingCL - Starting Out
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Cooperative Learning
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Instructional Strategies Online - A Listing of Instructional Strategies and Methods
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Transforming Teaching for the New Millennium
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Cooperative Learning Resources
Kagan Cooperative Learning
Amazon Price: $44.00 (as of 11/10/2009)
Teacher's Sourcebook for Cooperative Learning: Practical Techniques, Basic Principles, and Frequently Asked Questions
Amazon Price: $31.76 (as of 11/10/2009)
Second Language Learning Through Cooperative Learning
Amazon Price: $29.00 (as of 11/10/2009)
61 Cooperative Learning Activities: Thinking, Writing, and Speaking Skills
Amazon Price: $24.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
Write! Mathematics: Multiple Intelligences & Cooperative Learning Writing Activities (Grades 4-9)
Amazon Price: $24.00 (as of 11/10/2009)
My Home Site for Teachers & Students
- My Home Page
- My home page has great resources for teachers and students. Check it out. The majority of student resources are for math.
Please email or share these resources with others who would find them valuable. There is an "email" button on the right side bar.
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Evelyn_Saenz wrote...
Math became my favorite subject when I discovered Cusinaire Rods. Cooperative Learning is the best way to teach any subject. I have lensrolled this lens to Hands-on Learning
Posted December 08, 2007
ronpass wrote...
Great resources Rebecca - you might be interested in my Online Learning Lens or my lens on Digital Storytelling - five stars and a lensroll.
Ron Passfield
Posted September 05, 2007
Thialee wrote...
I really enjoyed reading your lens! Your lens would fit perfectly in the Squidoo group Teachers Mentoring Teachers. Please consider joining at www.squidoo.com/groups/realteacher.
Posted August 03, 2007
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Hey, this is a great lens. Definitely has helpful information. I'm a Spanish teacher so thanks for the great helps! Check out my lenses. 5*s :)
Posted July 30, 2007
Thialee wrote...
Great information! I enjoyed your squidoo lens. Please consider joining Teachers Mentoring Teachers. http://www.squidoo.com/group/create_lens/realteacher/25d3303184096b149d28662710baf5d7
Posted July 27, 2007
leemcintyre wrote...
Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed your lens. It's nice to see such a detailed lens about teaching. In fact, it's given me some ideas for my own lens! Keep up the excellent work.
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Lee McIntyre
Posted May 14, 2007
by Rebecca_Newburn
Ms. Rebecca Newburn has been a math and science educator for 16 years. She is interested in supporting Millennials, the New Generation, by creating re...
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