July 2012 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the July 2012 issue of The Busy Educators Newsletter edited by teacher, speaker and author Marjan Glavac.
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- CALENDAR EVENTS
- BUILDING A BETTER REPORT CARD (TEACHERS, GR. 4-8)
- FREE HOMEWORK HELP AND AFFORDABLE TEST PREP (TEACHERS, GR. 9-12)
- 100 COOLEST SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS ON YOUTUBE (TEACHERS, GR. 4-12)
- 16 CLASSROOM TOOLS TEACHERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT (TEACHERS)
Calendar Events
Canada Day July 1 (Canada)
Independence Day July 4 (USA)
Ramadan Begins July 20 (Islam)
BUILDING A BETTER REPORT CARD (TEACHERS, GR. 4-8)
I hated writing our province’s new report cards. They weren’t much of an improvement over the old report cards. As a parent and as a teacher, I found they didn’t really show parents what their child really did and how they achieved their marks.
I don’t know if this infographic of the report card really exists, but I wish I had one like it when I taught elementary school. It’s close to the one my own students had in high school, without the visual pie charts. My own children also had interim reports every 4 weeks with line graphs of their averages and the class average, and an extensive report on attendance, assignments completed, marks for every assignment weight factors, class average and median. I liked it very much.
I could never understand why we couldn’t have one like it at the elementary level. It gave a much clearer picture of student achievement rather than the reams and reams of educational babble in the comments section which only teachers could understand.
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FREE HOMEWORK HELP AND AFFORDABLE TEST PREP
(TEACHERS, GR. 9-12)
 If I was a high school teacher, I would definitely be checking out the math,science, english and test prep videos on this site.
With over 3,000 helpful homework videos, this site offers help in all core subjects: Math (Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2, Precalcus and Calculus), Science (Biology, Chemistry and Physics), and English (Writing, Grammar and Literature).
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100 COOLEST SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS ON YOUTUBE (TEACHERS, GR. 4-12)
Back in the early 80’s I was assigned to teach science to a Special Ed. seventh grade class. I had never taught science before. Since there was no YouTube and no Internet, I picked up a science textbook and used a lot of these experiments to hook my students into the marvels of science. Now you can see 100 of them on YouTube.
Click Here For 100 Coolest Science Experiments
16 CLASSROOM TOOLS TEACHERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT (TEACHERS)
Mohamed ( Med ) Kharbach is both a teacher and a master student in the Mount Saint Vincent University ( MSVU), Department of Education in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. He is working on a thesis about the educational use of emerging technologies in teaching and learning.
His post is worth looking at for useful toolsto use in the classroom.
Click Here For 16 Classroom Tools
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Grade 4/5 Teacher
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