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- Instructor
- Scholatic's magazine for elementary and middle school teachers. Articles feature professional and curriculum development and are published monthly.
Most Recent Articles from Instructor 
Math practice: Manipulatives from A to Z
ACES Never throw away a deck of playing cards. They have dozens of math applications: counting, sorting, probability, and card-house engineering,...
1/1/08 by Hannah Trierweiler · More from publicationReady for this job? Why would a teacher decide to leave the classroom to become a school administrator?
That is the question I ask my graduate students on the first night of their class in educational administration. Here are some typical responses I...
1/1/08 by Suzanne Tingley · More from publicationGetting Web wise
My fifth graders are getting more Web savvy than ever--so I decided to create a class "wiki," which is a Web page designed to allow...
1/1/08 by Stacey Shubitz · More from publicationPut the/back in iPod
My middle school students are obsessed with their iPods--so I found a way to use their favorite music in our autobiography unit. Students choose one...
1/1/08 by Nicole Hughes · More from publicationCharacter champions
I use stuffed animals to represent positive character traits: a lion for courage, a monkey for teamwork. At the end of each day, students share...
1/1/08 by Kathleen McLean · More from publicationI want to read like the big kids
Each week, my second-grade students act as scribes for the kindergartners as they write stories based on their letter of the week. They record the...
1/1/08 by Matthew Reed · More from publication
