Welcome

I started out teaching in the early 90's. I taught severely behaviorally disordered students, some in Special Education working below grade level and some in the general curriculum. That taught me how to multitask as a teacher. I have several different levels in my room and sometimes even had more than one subject of instruction at the same time. When I started out, no one was able to tell me how I was supposed to do all of that at one time and still give quality instruction. However, by my second year, I had my game plan down. It is very possible to give quality instruction under those circumstances.

I then went back to school and got my license as a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology in Texas. I have spent the last ten years diagnosing a variety of disabilities and consulting with teachers. I help set up programs for students and consider myself a source of support for teachers and students. I have also been the autism expert in my district for the past 9 years and what I have learned about working with children with autism is considerable.

I love to write and have written a small library of articles (expanding constantly) that I hope will be helpful to teachers. If you find what you are looking for here, please post a comment and let me know. If you need information that you do not find here, please let me know that too. Thanks

Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Article Library

Teacher Survival
  1. How to Survive Your First Year of Teaching School
  2. How to Make Lesson Planning Easy
  3. How to Write an Effective IEP
  4. How to Write Measurable Objectives for an IEP
  5. How to Read an IEP
  6. How to Set up a Lesson Plan
  7. How to Measure Academic Achievement
  8. How to Arrange a Classroom
  9. How to Build Positive Relationships with Students
  10. How to Make Extra Money as a Teacher
  11. How to Show Students You Care
  12. How to Make a Rubric
  13. How to Grade With Rubrics
  14. How to Use Rubrics to Increase Student Performance
  15. How to Set up Classroom Centers
  16. How to Co-Teach in an Inclusion Classroom
  17. Strategies and Activities for Co-Teaching in an Inclusion Classroom
  18. How to Modify Tests for Students
  19. How to Help Students Who Are Failing


Teaching Career Support
1. Ways for Teachers to Make Extra Money
2. Careers in Education Other Than Teaching



General Teaching Strategies
  1. How to Use Bloom's Taxonomy
  2. How to Set Up Cooperative Learning Groups
  3. How to Teach Teamwork to Students
  4. How to Be an Effective Teacher
  5. How to Teach a Lesson That Works
  6. How to Modify Tests
  7. How to Make Inclusion Work
  8. How to Teach Students to Take Notes
  9. How to Teach Students With Learning Disabilities
  10. How to Give Homework
  11. How to Teach Respect
  12. How to Teach Higher Level Thinking Skills
  13. How to Do RTI
  14. How to Teach Steps in a Process by Using Chaining
  15. How to Get Students to Work in Groups
  16. How to Plan For Differentiated Instruction For Students
  17. How to Grade Special Education Students
  18. How to Use Centers in the Classroom
  19. How to Successfully Include a Program to Stop Bullying Into Instruction
  20. How to Modify Tests for Students
  21. Teaching Strategies in Special Education Classrooms
  22. Strategies and Activities for Co-Teaching in an Inclusion Classroom
  23. How to Co-Teach in an Inclusion Classroom
  24. Improving Working Memory in Children -the Research
  25. How to Use Non Verbal Cues in the Classroom
  26. How to Increase Compliance From Oppositional Students
  27. How to Encourage Students to Ask Questions



Teaching Content

  1. How to Run a Successful Content Mastery Center
  2. How to Teach Students to Take Notes
  3. How to Make History Interesting
  4. How to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies
  5. How to Teach Addition
  6. How to Teach Subtraction to First Graders
  7. How to Teach Subtraction With Regrouping
  8. How to Teach Reading Comprehension Strategies
  9. How to Get Kids to Like Math
  10. How to Teach Place Value to Second Graders




Classroom Behavior
  1. How to Make Classroom Rules
  2. Signs of Depression in Young Children
  3. How to Get Students to Work in Groups
  4. How to Get Students to Listen to You
  5. How to Get Control of Your Class
  6. How to Shape Behavior
  7. How to Create a Choiceboard
  8. How to Use Choiceboards to get Children to Behave Better
  9. How to Control Children
  10. How to Use Behavior Charts Effectively
  11. How to Use a Behavior Plan Effectively
  12. How to Write a Behavior Plan That Works
  13. How to Help Students Focus
  14. How to Encourage Students to Be Part of a Program to Stop Bullying
  15. How to Help Kids With Test Anxiety
  16. How to Use Charts to Teach Kids to Self Monitor
  17. How to Keep Students On Task

Classroom Organization

  1. How to Use Centers in the Classroom
  2. How to Set up Classroom Centers


Grading
  1. How to Make a Rubric
  2. How to Grade With Rubrics
  3. How to Use Rubrics to Increase Student Performance
  4. How to Grade Special Education Students


Support
  1. How to be a Good Teacher Assistant
  2. How to Use a Teaching Assistant Effectively

Safe Schools
  1. How to Have a Successful Stop Bullying Program at Your School
  2. How to Successfully Include a Program to Stop Bullying Into Instruction
  3. How to Encourage Students to Be Part of a Program to Stop Bullying
  4. How to Tell if Someone Might be Suicidal
  5. How to Respond to a Threat of Suicide at School
  6. How to Help a Child Who is Being Bullied


Teaching Children with Autism
  1. How to Help a Child With Autism Settle in to a New School Year
  2. How to Develop an Education Program For a Student With Autism
  3. How to Teach Kids With Asperger's
  4. Autism Teaching Methods
  5. Autism and Learning Differences
  6. How to Use Journals to Help Kids With Autism
  7. How to Teach Kids With Asperger's
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