Great Teachers know how to help Children to Find their Voices
This lens will tell you about some famous and not so famous teachers, methods of teaching and ways to engage children in learning.
Think about the great teachers you have known who truly care about children. They inspire children to do their best and at the same time make learning fun. They create classrooms where children are invited to pursue their own interests while working on basic skills with their classmates. Each of these teachers has influenced my style of teaching. Which teachers have influenced you?
As you read through this lens I challenge you to discover: Who coined the term unschooling? Who promoted the Writing Workshop? Who refused to use Basel readers from London to teach Maori Children?
Teaching from the Heart Table of Contents
- Louis Agassiz knew how to Teach from the Heart
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner was another great teacher
- Lucy Calkins
- John Holt Taught how to Teach from the Heart
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Mary Baratta-Lorton
- Mary Laycock
- Betsy Herbert
- Rose-Marie Tarbell
- Mary Dewey
- Teaching How to Make Cookies
- Rafe Esquith
- Fictional Teachers
- Not On The Test
- Tom Chapin brings musical message to NYSUT convention
- Look Who's Twittering about Teachers
- Teaching from the Heart is in the Four Wheeler's Online Unit Study Directory
- What book most influenced your teaching?
Great Teachers who Teach from the Heart :
Know how to get a child's attention and keep it.
You know that you have found a teacher that teaches from the heart when you find a teacher that comes in early to the classroom in order to speaks briefly to every student present. This is someone who sits beside a child or kneels in front of another to get down to their level.A Teacher who teaches from the heart suggests full attention to and caring for the person with whom she is speaking.
These are the type of teachers described on this page. Do you know them all? Have you read their books? Are you ready to become inspired?
This is the way Carol Fulton of the Faculty of Education, UBC describes a caring teacher in her article Teaching With Heart
All of us can remember special teachers that really made a difference. Obviously teachers need to know their subject matter, but the factors that cause students to connect with teachers are often tied more to the heart than the mind.Teachers that really care are noticed by students and often have profound influence on their lives. In a world dominated by test mania, creative teachers who teach from the heart often feel squeezed by outside forces.
This lens contains resources that will help teachers and administrators bring creativity and Teaching from the Heart back into the classroom.These ideas, activities and inspiration are not only for classroom teachers but also for homeschoolers.
Teaching Fills My World with Joy and Wonder
I look to Great Teachers for Inspiration
Some days are so difficult that I wonder why I ever thought I wanted to teach. That's when I look into the eyes of my eager little learners and go to my bookshelf and pull out one of the books by the following teachers that bring back that love and enthusiasm for that is what each and every one of these children deserve.
Louis Agassiz knew how to Teach from the Heart
A Scientist of Two Worlds: Louis Agassiz
Her book is now a Public Domain Book which can be read online.
- Catherine Owens Peare, A Scientist of Two Worlds: Louis Agassiz
I first ran across Louis Agassiz when living in the Agassiz district of Cambridge, Ma. Thinking that I should know something about the person for whom the district was named I went to the library and picked up a copy of this very book which is now available here on the Internet for free.
Louis Agassiz grew up in Switzerland and enjoyed climbing the mountains around his home. He and his brother discovered sea shell in bedded in the rocks at the top of the mountains. They collected fish from the fishermen of Lake Zurich, drew them and became so knowledgeable about them that they could recognize a fish from just looking at a single bone.
Lewis Agassiz was one of the great scientists of his day, and one of the "founding fathers" of the modern American scientific tradition, Louis Agassiz remains something of an historical enigma. A great systematist and paleontologist, a renowned teacher and tireless promoter of science in America, he was also a lifelong opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution. Yet even his most critical attacks on evolution have provided evolutionary biologists with insights.
If you enjoy teaching and science I urge you to read Louis Agassiz' biography.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner was another great teacher
Teaching from the Heart in New Zealand
Sylvia Ashton-Warner was given the job of teaching Maoris children. Though the school system had given her basal readers from London, she found that the children of rural New Zealand could not relate to the characters or the tales.Mrs. Ashton-Warner decided to truly get to know the children. She began to ask the children for their own words, the particular gut-word of fear, lust, or despair that was most important to the child that day. She would write this word down for him on strong cardboard and give the word to the child. He learned it instantaneously and never forgot it. Soon the child would have an exciting, if odd, vocabulary.
Since from the beginning writing was by demand, practical and magical it, of course, was simply an extension of the child's speech. What was written and thus what was read was what the child felt was most important to tell.
Mrs. Ashton-Warner wanted to help the children express their strong feelings. That observation led her to develop her reflective instructional method. She orchestrated the school day so it would alternate between expressive activities chosen by the children and activities in which the teacher imparts new information. She called this alternation "breathing in and out."
She wrote about the relationship of early education to world peace, believing that if children had a peaceful means of expression they would not be aggressive or violent.
I loved every one of Sylvia Ashton-Warner's books. They give me inspiration. I hope that everyone who teachers gets a chance to read her books.
Teacher (Touchstone Books)
Amazon Price: $15.25 (as of 12/08/2009) 
Lucy Calkins
Teaching from the Heart through the Writing Process
Lucy Calkins began writing and teaching about the Writing Process Workshop about the time I began doing my student teaching. I saw teachers and students in classes throughout New England excited about this new way of learning to write. Having the chance to share their writing, discuss how to come up with new ideas, how to make a passage clearer to the audience.
Ms. Calkins approach reminded me of Sylvia Ashton-Warner's belief in teaching by listening to the students and helping them to express themselves. Reading Lucy Calkins book Lessons from a Child opened my eyes to the possibilities of the Writing Process Workshop. I have devoured each of her subsequent books. If you are teaching older children, try books by Nancie Atwell, who writes for Middle and High School Teachers.
John Holt Taught how to Teach from the Heart
Children are Born Learners
John Holt believed that children are born learners and that there is a curiosity in all children that begins at birth, not when they are put in school. His believed that children try to make sense of the world.They want to solve problems and they like to think but parents and educators get in the way of this natural process by placing children in large, impersonal schools, and by teaching a meaningless curriculum in an industrial factory setting.
John Holt coined the term Unschooling. unschooling, a term that has come to mean learning that can happen anywhere and at anytime. It is an ongoing, natural process - part of the journey we call life. It is not unpleasant or boring anymore than breathing, eating or sleeping are. There is no sense of relief that school is out because learning is always happening. Students also know that they are responsible for their learning. They do not need an "expert" to teach them. If they have an interest, they can go out and pursue the knowledge they need. Unschooling puts the student in pursuit of the knowledge. In this role, parents are not teachers who always know more than their children, they are often fellow learners making the journey along with their children.
This is a journey that my children and I followed for many years. Nothing short of wonderful happened because of this journey. Listening to your children, helping them find the resources to pursue their interests is the greatest gift you can give your children. John Holt's Teach Your Own is a great book to start with on your journey to homeschooling.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Teaching from the Heart
Laura Ingalls Wilder at book signing, October 1952
Brown's Book Store, Springfield, MO
Since reading her books in third grade I have wanted to be a teacher. I read how at only 15 years old, without graduating from high school and facing a class of children including boys older and bigger than her she was able to connect with each and every one of them.How could she do it?
I asked my grandmother, a teacher of one room schoolhouses as well, "How do you teach all 8 grades at once?" She said that she rarely if ever had children in all grades in any one year.
As I began teaching I realized that even in a class of only one grade the children are all at different levels in various different subjects.
When teaching seems difficult or impossible I go back to Laura Ingalls when I need to be inspired again. If she could do it at age 15 with no books or resources then I can do it now.
These Happy Golden Years CD (Little House-the Laura Years)
Amazon Price: $19.75 (as of 12/08/2009)
Mary Baratta-Lorton
Taught Mathematics from the Heart
Mary started the Mathematics TheirWay Newsletters because she
wanted to provide support and
encouragement to teachers
sharing her philosophy of activity centered,
child-centered learning
in the classroom.
No teacher resource in recent decades has had a greater impact on primary mathematics education than Mary Baratt-Lorton's Mathematics Their Way. The popularity of this developmental, activity-based mathematics program began slowly from its publication in 1976, and grew steadily. By the late 1980's, it not only began to dominate how primary teachers thought about teaching math, but its philosophy began to permeate the entire elementary math curriculum.
The goal of the activities is to develop understanding and insight of the patterns of math through the use of concrete materials. Students will discover and explore while developing skills in addition, subtraction, pattern recognition, measurement, and more.
The classroom teacher where I did my student teaching was just beginning to use this method. Together we made materials and implemented most of the activities mentioned in Mary Baratta-Lorton's books. The children were excited eager learners and I have used these methods ever since. Now I take these ideas and adapt them to classroom themes. Mary taught me to listen to the children, watch them, and play with them as they learn to make sense of the world.
The book Hands-On Math is a great compliment to Mary's work with directions and blackline masters for implementing the Calendar and other activities related to Mathematics Their Way.
Mary Laycock
Mary Laycock's Company helps teachers today to Teach from the Heart
Mary Laycock has been a mathematics educator for 60 years. Her goal throughout her life has been to provide real understanding of mathematics through hands-on (manipulative) activities.The products of Activity Resources are a compilation of the supplementary materials that Mary Laycock has found can help a teacher build this type of understanding in students. Mary has written or edited well over 100 of the products. The ones she did not write or edit are products from many other authors and publisher who meet her criteria for quality teaching content.
Mary believes that a concrete (hands-on) approach produces the best understanding at any level from learning to count through calculus.
I used Mary Laycock's book Algebra in the Concrete with my homeschooled daughter who was able to internalize the concepts so well that she taught has taught her classmates who did not understand through conventional methods all the way through Advance Placement calcucus. I believe this is because of the foundation that Mary Laycock gave us through her hands-on approach.
Algebra in the concrete
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Betsy Herbert
Teaching Homeschoolers with a Heart
Betsy's ventures into a lifetime of involvement in early childhood education, sparked from student teaching at Goddard College. She taught in NYC, on an Indian reservation and in California. With Stella Fein, Roberta McPherson and their children, Betsy formed a homeschooling group (Upper Valley School) which eventually expanded to form South Street Centre through which many hundreds of parents and kids were able to realize a vision of community-based, child-centered learning.Something that she probably never realized was the impact she had on my life and decision to homeschool my children. I visited Betsy at the school and her home when my oldest was 4 years old and nearly the age to go to kindergarten. Talking with Betsy gave me the courage to follow my heart and teach her myself. I have never regretted that decision.
Rose-Marie Tarbell
Teaching With a Heart in a Multiage Classroom
Mrs. Tarbell was not only my 7th and 8th grade teacher but also the school principal. The classes were so small that two grades were combined in each classroom. The 4 classrooms thus contained 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 5th and 6th, and my class, 7th and 8th. There was no getting lost in this school.She taught all subjects and brought excitement to even diagramming sentences. She could see my weaknesses and gave me the task of teaching those skills to younger students. I loved her classes and never had a better teacher.
Mary Dewey
Teaching from the Heart in a One Room Schoolhouse
Mary Dewy was my grandmother. She taught in one room schoolhouses in Southern Vermont. She rode by horse and wagon to the first schools and boarded with local families. Later she got married, had 4 children and taught each of them. I asked her what it was like to teach all 8 grades at once. She said that she rarely had children in all 8 grades at once. The older children helped the younger children. She taught some subjects to all students at the same time and expected each child to work at his or her own level. Each of her children loved having their mother for a teacher and were very, very proud of her.
Later on she became the Sunday School Superintendent and a Sunday School Teacher. My sister and I were very privileged to have her as our teacher. She was always kind, gentle and encouraging. I learned more from her in my Sunday School classes than from any other Sunday School teacher.
She certainly knew how to teach from the heart.
Teaching How to Make Cookies
Learn more about Mary Dewey
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Lumberjack Cookies
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One summer I had the privilege of living with my Grandmother, an incredible cook, who taught me how to bake Lumberjack Cookies. She was famous for her skills at baking and often won the Vermont State Grange baking contest. This is the recipe that she...
Rafe Esquith
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe EsquithMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
When you need inspiration or to revive your spirits, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Esquith is just the book for any teacher or homeschooling parent.
Lively and inspiring it's a book that you just can't put down.
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
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Teaching with a Heart
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Which Books Most Influenced You?
The books written by these teachers with a heart are some of the best books I have ever read for inspiration and renewal of spirit. Please read them all. You will be inspired to Teach from the Heart.
Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics) by Frank B. Gilbreth
Frank B. Gilbreth, the father, is an innovative te more...5 points
These Happy Golden Years (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away fro more...5 points
What Do I Do Monday? (Innovators in Education) by John Holt
When teachers listened to Holt's talks, or wrote h more...3 points
Teacher (Touchstone Books) by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
A passionate, thought-provoking story by a great t more...3 points
Mathematics Their Way, by Mary Baratta-Lorton
Playful, enjoyable activities develop insight and more...3 points
A scientist of two worlds: Louis Agassiz by Catherine Owens Peare
Louis Agassiz grew up in the mountains of Switzerl more...3 points
The Art of Teaching Writing by Lucy Calkins
This book reminds me to listen to the children and more...3 points
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
My Side of the Mountain," based on the book b more...3 points
Christy by Catherine Marshall
In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddl more...3 points
Ethics for the New Millennium by Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has some wonderful ide more...2 points
Education And Ecstacy
by George Leonard. Like Ashton-Warner, Calkins and more...2 points
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Esquith
The New York Times bestseller that is revolutioniz more...1 point
The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition by Jim Trelease
For more than two decades, millions of parents and more...0 points
Hands-on Sites
For Teaching from the Heart
What do you do to keep inspired?
Look What's in the Mailbox!
Magazines to soothe your soul...
Open up any one of these magazines and you will find it bursting with ideas.
"Instructor" of course has been around for years. Mailbox has ideas to just laminate, cut out and use. Lots of Hands-on ideas.
Green Teacher points out ways to help save the environment and teach those values to children.
Horn Book was introduced to me by a great librarian at the Cambridge Public Library in Mass. It reviews all the very best children's books coming out each year.
These are my favorite magazines. Each issue comes with exciting new ideas to awaken learning in my students. Treat yourself to a little happiness each month all year.
Movies about Teachers who Teach From the Heart
Mr. Holland's Opus
Richard Dreyfuss played a composer taking a job as a music teacher at a high school and facing the challenge of teaching music to teenagers who are not interested. He of course ends up learning as much about himself as teaching his students and inpiring them with his passion for music.
Amazon Price: $13.49 (as of 12/08/2009)
Dead Poets Society
With Robin Williams playing an English teacher at a prep school who attempts to teach appreciation for literature to completely uninterested students. As students learn to challenge assumptions and behavior expectations they and their teacher run into a very conservative 1950's New England establishment.
Amazon Price: $12.49 (as of 12/08/2009)
To Sir, With Love
Sidney Poitier plays a black teacher in a white slum of London facing kids who distrust him because of his color at a time when he could not find any other job. Slowly through unconventional methods (including throwing away the books) he turns the lives of the kids around. In the process, they learn to call him "Sir."
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The Ron Clark Story
A true story, starring Matthew Perry as an idealistic teacher from a rural upbringing who goes to New York City where he turns around a group of challenging students.
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Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
"Matt Damon plays Will Hunting, a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend (Minnie Driver), he meets Sean, the therapist (Robin Williams) who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean's coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future."
Amazon Price: $10.99 (as of 12/08/2009)
Teaching
Teaching from the Heart
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What Makes a Good Teacher?
Humor for a Teacher's Heart: Stories, Quips, and Quotes to Lift the Heart (Humor for the Heart)
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Why I Teach: Inspirational True Stories from Teachers Who Make a Difference
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What Makes a Good Teacher? Here`s What the Kids Say!
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Books for Teaching from the Heart
Talk to children, listen to them. Take them outside and explore. There is no better way for a child to learn than to have the freedom to explore and share what they have learned with others.
Valentines for the Teacher
Teaching from the Heart
A Valentine For My Teacher
My teacher's very special
so I'm making her a heart,
a valentine that's sure to be
a proper work of art.
I've worked on it all morning
so it should be ready soon,
I'd like to slip it on her desk
before this afternoon.
It's colored in with crayons
and it's trimmed with paper lace,
it has flowers, hearts, and cupids--
I can't wait to see her face.
Happy, Busy and Learning
The Classroom Environment helps you to Teach from the Heart
Photo Credit: Plants in the Window
on Flickr, Creative Commons
where you can watch plants grow, experiment with mold, feel mud squish between your toes. A treehouse and a cozy little den, a frog pond, a butterfly garden and a view of a squirrel's nest. This is the type of classroom I strive for.
Paper, pens and lots of paper. Jars, spoons, and magnifying glasses. A raincoat, a snowsuit and a bathing suit. Books and a library card.
Open your ears, open your eyes and watch them learn.
Fictional Teachers
Teaching From the Heart
Miss Agnes arrives in a very small Alaskan village and made a dramatic impact on the lives of the children and their families. Her methods are reminiscent of Sylvia Ashton Warner's.
This would make a great read aloud when studying Lemming of the Arctic, Garner Rix and Vermont Frontier Life or when learning about classroom management.
The Year of Miss Agnes Unit Study
The Year of Miss Agnes (Aladdin Historical Fiction)
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 12/08/2009)
Antique Classroom Items
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Leave No Child Untested
- Tom Chapin - Not On The Test
- Music, art, drama and sports - these are what kept me involved when I was in school. And these very things, that make a teacher's (and student's) job easier and more rewarding, are what's been cut from curriculums across the country.
Now we are teaching by rote again - where the test, and only the test, becomes the reason to teach and study.
It's no secret that American industry has outsourced most factory jobs to other countries to take advantage of cheaper labor costs. So why are we putting so much effort into a form of education in which there is no creativity? This is the time that our youth should be taught to think "out of the box," not be put into a tighter one!
Tom Chapin brings musical message to NYSUT convention
Look Who's Twittering about Teachers
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- LiteracyCounts
- Education in the Digital Age FREE #PBS Teacher webinar starts in 5 minutes! http://www.pbs.org/teachers/webinar/
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- natashacoo
- "They were in love," argues defense in Cobb teacher sex trial: Atlanta Journal Constitution By Christ.. http://bit.ly/8xIyxi
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- askboutmekjb
- #nevertrust a damn teacher... bitch said we would be able to take this exam! HOE!!! where is it?
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- abstractthought
- My son gave the choir teacher flowers and got a kiss. How cute!
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- SamiCappola
- @e2the_laina YES. ITS ALL THE FUCKING CLASS IS. AND MY TEACHER IS THE WORST TEACHER EVER.
Teachers in the News!
Photo Credit: Juggling Fruit
on Flickr, Creative Commons.
"One who's willing to risk looking foolish in class -- juggling fruit, doing magic tricks or throwing a raw egg against a wall -- to teach teenagers who barely speak English about paragraph structure and metaphors" has got to be a Teacher who Teaches from the Heart. I believe that Tim Schlosser knows how to look outside the box to reach his students.
- Novice English teacher learns his lessons quickly - Los Angeles Times
- I had the teacher pegged the minute I heard his voice on my answering machine. Tim Schlosser sounded so forthright, so earnest and so impossibly young, he had "Teach for America" written all over him.
- Mr. Tim Schlosser
- Welcome to the homepage for Mr. Schlosser's English class. Here you will find checklists, reading logs, and other class bulletins.
- teacher believes in "teaching the whole child"
- When children line up for a game in Shawn Craft's physical education class at Iva Elementary School, it may look like they are playing dodge ball or softball, but there's usually more to it.
In fact, a bystander might hear students yell out names of planets or multiplication tables while throwing.
Sometimes the children are playing what Craft calls the "Solar System Game," where they learn how planets rotate around the sun as the students play something similar to softball or baseball.
"I have fun trying to figure out how to play a game that ties in with what they are learning in class," Craft said. "I believe in teaching the whole child. And this way, they have fun and they don't realize how much they are learning at the same time." - Best Teacher in the State
- Alekseyevets credits her students success to her "hands on" learning approach for student's whose second language is English.
- Teaching from the heart | coloradoan.com | The Coloradoan,
- Understanding who veterans are and what they did for their country is not always easy for young children to grasp. Third-grade teacher Robert Langford shared his experiences with students in honor of Veterans Day.
World Teacher's Day
World Teachers' Day has been celebrated annually on 5 October since 1994. It commemorates teachers worldwide. It represents the awareness of, and the understanding and appreciation for the vital contribution that teachers make to education and development.
Over 100 countries observe World Teachers' Day.
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Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
The spring continues to warm the earth and frogs a more...3 points
What happened to RECESS?
Do you remember the games you played during recess more...3 points
White Foot the Wood Mouse: A Mouse Unit Study
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse welcomes everyone to his more...3 points
Take Home Literacy Bags
TAKE HOME LITERACY BAGS are a fun way to help chil more...3 points
Lemmings: Arctic Classroom Theme
Capturing Your Student's Attention:Your little lem more...3 points
It's Raining! It's Pouring!
Water, rain, puddles, wetness...There are endless more...3 points
Woodchucks: How much learning could a Woodchuck teach if a Woodchuck could teach school?
Don't just hibernate, pop your head up and find ou more...3 points
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
How do you feel about Gray Wolves? What do you kno more...3 points
Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid
Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his fath more...3 points
The Best Educational Freebies For Homeschoolers and Teachers
Find links to free worksheets, activities, program more...2 points
George Washington Carver
As a botany & agriculture teacher to the child more...2 points
Rudolf Steiner the founder of Anthroposophy
Founder of Waldorf education, alternative farming more...2 points
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti was famous in his lifetime for more...1 point
Hydroponics with Kids
Two years ago the art teacher at the school where more...1 point
Selective Mutism
The purpose of this lens is to raise awareness aro more...1 point
Social Stories
A Social Story is a very prescriptive way of ident more...1 point
Helping Kids Find Their Strengths to Succeed in Life!
I am here to share my thoughts, ideas, passions ab more...1 point
Osho-Spiritual Guide
Who is Osho? Osho is a spiritual guide and teacher more...0 points
Unschooling ROCKS!
I first heard about unschooling almost a decade ag more...0 points
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River Otters: Playful Friends of the Woodlands!
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Learn about River Otters through games and hands-on learning centers. Decorate your classroom with a Woodlands Riverbank Theme. Learn the habits of River Otters, the food they eat and how they raise their young. You will find suggestions for both fi...
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Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
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Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and play games and sing songs, gobble up the insect words and swat the fly verbs. This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create frog-themed activities for both homeschool fam...
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Beginning to Read
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Mrs. Wishy Washy and The Big Bad Pig are inviting you all beginning readers to join them in the adventure of learning to read. Learn how to make Word Walls, Literacy Bags, activities for Center Time and lots, lots, more. You will find suggested begi...
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Bluebirds of the Meadow
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Summer nears and the bluebirds start nesting along the fenceline. The children are fascinated with the way they fly back and forth to build their nests. They become the focus of our next Unit Study, Bluebirds of the Meadow. As your little bluebirds...
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Lemmings: Falling into the Sea of Knowledge
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When the winds start to howl and the snow begins to blow you can capture your student's attention with this innovative Arctic Unit Study focusing on lemmings. Your little lemmings will be excited to learn with a theme that includes little furry crea...
Teaching from the Heart is in the Four Wheeler's Online Unit Study Directory
Thank you to the Four Wheelers for including the Teaching from the Heart in their Online Unit Study Directory.
- Internet Directory of Unit Studies
- The Four Wheelers Internet Directory of Unit Studies contains a list, roughly arranged by subject, of links to unit studies that are published on the Internet.
Look Who's Twittering about Teachers of the Year
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- Teacher of the Year named, nominees honored http://post.ly/EV9S
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- RT @jaciclement: Congratulations to Sound Beach School's 4th grade teacher Evan Curran, the FMC Media Savvy Teacher of the Year! Way to ...
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- NCOBS' Educators' Initiative participant Chris Larson named ArtSpace Charter School's TEACHER OF THE YEAR!!!!! http://bit.ly/8epL7Q
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- Science teacher Leonard Guindon '70 has been named Ohio Conservation Teacher of the Year. The honor reflects the... http://bit.ly/879ZVT
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What book most influenced your teaching?
Please let my know by leaving a comment here. Tell me about your favorite teacher or teaching idea.
As you read through this lens did you to discover: Who coined the term unschooling? Who promoted the Writing Workshop? Who refused to use basel readers from London to teach Maori Children?
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- Pittan Pittan Jun 20, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
- This lens is really useful and interesting to read especially to a teacher like me. I have been involved in teaching for the past 30 years and I am still passionate about my profession.
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- Shelly Shelly Jun 12, 2009 @ 12:00 am
- I've worked in the school system the past few years and have developed a great respect for teachers--in fact, I respected on so much that I volunteered in her classroom a day a week for 3 months and after winter break was offered a paid position with the same teacher. Amazing people make amazing teachers. I received letters from all the 2nd grade students I worked with this past year and was so touched by one that said she loves reading and math because they are easy. Last fall she would either shut down or break into tears because she said she didn't get it--both my teacher friend and I got a bit teary over this child's success story, her bright smile and confidence will never be forgotten, nor the first time she whispered in my ear, "I love reading!" You are a wonderful inspiration--we all would have liked to have you for a teacher--keep encouraging others!
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- TopStyleTravel TopStyleTravel Jun 3, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
- Remarkable lens and it shows your love of teaching. And may inspire future generations to choose teaching, and how to do it. John Holt coined the term unschooling.
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- Tipi Tipi May 6, 2009 @ 6:45 am
- Evelyn, I had to vote for my first grade teacher. She was so nice and I learned so much that 1st and 2nd year in school from her. She was such a lady and great teacher! - I love this lens!
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- tandemonimom tandemonimom May 5, 2009 @ 9:34 pm
- 5***** as usual! Welcome to The Homeschooling Group - you're a featured lens!
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About the Author
Evelyn's Hands-On Learning Blog.If you found inspiration from these teachers, come see what else I'm writing about.
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Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher
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My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation. I believe that each topic s...
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