Schoolyear Tips, VPDC

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Starting Off the Year	Working with Parents	Report Cards	Beginning Teacher Resources
Information on Classroom Management Bibliography	Models for Classroom Management and Discipline	Strategies for Promoting Student Responsibility	Creating Community in the Classroom

Starting Off the Year

Well, This Is IT! - Let's Get Acquainted
http://hannahmeans.bizland.com/first_day.htm
As a new or veteran teacher it is always helpful to start off on the right foot, be consistent and begin with effective procedures.

Ten Tips for New Teachers
http://www.teachersfirst.com/tenpoints.shtml

Ten Things New Teachers Need to Survive
https://www.csun.edu/~sb4310/10THINGS_files/frame.htm
Presents tools for new teachers to use in their classrooms to promote positive discipline and student achievement.

Advice for First-Year Teachers -- from the 'Sophomores' Who Survived Last Year!
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr152.shtml

NEA Works4Me Tips Library
http://www.nea.org/tips/library.html

TeacherPlanet features over 200 theme based resource pages
http://www.teacherplanet.com/calendar/calendar.php?op=cal&month=1&year=2006

Tips and Ideas for New Teachers
http://www.vtnea.org/vtnea07.htm - tips and ideas are presented to you by your friends and colleagues, members of the Vermont-National Education Association.

Peak Learning Resources
http://www.peaklearn.com/articles_main.asp - provides teachers articles to present our current best thinking on many of the issues that confront our nations educators daily.

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Working with Parents

The National PTA
http://www.pta.org/join_pta.html
Join your school’s PTA!! It gives you access to wonderful articles and resources designed for parents. It is inexpensive and the networking it supports goes a long, long way!

UFT- United Federation of Teachers
http://www.uft.org/?fid=190&tf=1621
-Provides articles and helpful tips on how to have teachers and parents work together to improve education and schools.

Education World
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/parent_involvement.shtml
-Offers tips to teachers from a variety of perspectives on how increase parent involvement and effective strategies for working with parents.

US Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/become/about/survivalguide/parent.html
-Helpful hints and information for new teachers on how to win over parents to improve their students’ education.

Survival Guide for New Teachers
http://mirror.eschina.bnu.edu.cn/Mirror/ed.gov/www.ed.gov/pubs/survivalguide/parent.html
-Provides many helpful hints for the new teacher on how to work with parents starting day one of the school year.

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Report Cards

Comment Ideas for Report Cards
http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/endofyear/personalcomments061400.html

Teacher Comments on Report Cards
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed423309.html
How to say it just right and in as few words as possible.

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Beginning Teacher Resources

Education World - Holidays and Special Events
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/archives/holidays.shtml
-Holiday ideas and project for all year, interdisciplinary ideas, and lesson planning ideas.

LACOE Teams Distance Learning Beginning Teacher Resources
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/newteachers.html

The Teacher's Guide to the U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/TeachersGuide/index.html - Guide to grants, services and resources provided and the federal and regional levels

Teaching for Conceptual Change
http://www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/resources/workshops/teachingforconcept.html
Excellent article present information and research on the impact of teaching for conceptual change.

Learning Why Effective Teachers Promote "Habits of Mind"
http://www.habits-of-mind.net/
Excellent source material on intelligent behaviors and how focus on them in the classroom leads to effective student learning.

Intelligent Behavior (habits of mind) Survey
http://www.habits-of-mind.net/pdf/IntelligentBehaviorsSurveyMay05.pdf
This page can be printed out so the survey can be taken by both teachers and students. Great resource.

Blacklines for Teachers Promoting Habits of Mind in the Classroom
http://www.habits-of-mind.net/pdf/samples.pdf
Great tips or reminders to keep handy as you teach.

Habits of Mind Powerpoint Presentation
http://www.habits-of-mind.net/quothom.htm
Printable slides that can assist both teachers and students to develop Habits of Mind everyday.

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Classroom Management Sites

Six Great 'Teacher Tips
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr156.shtml
Provides tips and links in the area of classroom management for all teachers.

Classroom Management Sites
http://www.ez2bsaved.com/class_manage.htm
Offers a variety of sites for effective classroom management techniques

http://www.teachingquality.org/resources/
Description: Google "classroom discipline" at this site and find much literature written about problems teachers face.

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/classman.html
Description: Helpful site with a variety of resources, strategies and ideas.

http://www.honorlevel.com/techniques.xml
Description: Gives brief overview of important topics to consider in developing a classroom discipline plan.

Teachers Helping Teachers Special Education
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
-Provides a variety of lesson plans for K-12 teachers.

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Models for Classroom Management and Discipline

Positive Discipline Sites
http://staff.ed.uiuc.edu/m-weeks/models.html
-Gives advice, tips, and links for effective positive classroom management techniques.

ProTeacher Community Archive
http://www.proteacher.net/cgi-bin/asrchwrap.cgi?string=positive+discipline&number=0
Description: Provides an archive of teacher tips and conversations regarding the choice to use positive discipline strategies in the classroom. Very helpful

Positive Discipline in the Classroom
http://www.positivediscipline.com/teachers/index.html
Description: Resources and opportunities to post comments regarding positive discipline and tips to become more effective.

Success For All: Positive Classroom Discipline
http://www.rblewis.net/technology/EDU506/WebQuests/discipline/discipline.html
Description: Techniques and tips that will help you achieve effective group management, positive classroom discipline and control.

Mistaken Goal Chart
http://resources.sai-iowa.org/bd/positivediscipline.html
Great rubric to remind oneself of more positive ways to handle problems in the classroom.

Assertive Discipline
http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/EDSPC715_MCINTYRE/AssertiveDiscipline.html
Description: Assertive discipline is a structured, systematic approach designed to assist educators in running an organized, teacher-in-charge classroom environment as developed by Lee and Marlene Canter

http://www.derby.ac.uk/telmie/private/plymouth/socemassdisc.htm
Description: teachers need to take time to teach pupils how to choose what is responsible behavior. This then is the "assertive teacher". Canter defines this person a "one who clearly and firmly communicates her expectations to her students, and is prepared to reinforce her words with appropriate actions.

http://www.change.freeuk.com/learning/howteach/assertdisc.html
Description: Concise summary of Assertive Discipline from educators in the UK.

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Strategies for Promoting Student Responsibility

Links on classroom meetings

http://www.devstu.org/csc/pdfs/csc_classmeet.pdf
Description: Commercial resource that is helpful in identifying the keys to successful classroom meetings.

http://www.indiana.edu/~batessdl/cdp.html
Description: The Child Development Project (CDP) is an ongoing, longitudinal project designed to understand how conduct problems develop from age five to adulthood.

http://www.ilovethatteachingidea.com/ideas/subj_class_meetings.htm
Description: Excellent site full of ideas and topics for successful classroom meetings and more.

http://www.esu.edu/sps/Dean/article6.htm
Description: Building Democratic Problem Solving with Class Meetings--used regularly within the classroom community these tips allow teachers to teach social skills and establish democratic values using real dilemmas of intense interest to children.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev012.shtml
Description: Class Meetings: A Democratic Approach to Classroom Management--a format for class meetings that enables students to share their thoughts and solve classroom issues on their own.

Links for upper elementary grade teachers

http://www.thabebanss.qld.edu.au/quality_school.htm
Description: Describes the core principals of a Quality School classroom as a concerted attempt to eliminate or minimize coercion and to drive out fear. Applies theories of William Glasser.

http://teachers.net/mentors/classroom_management/topic3220/8.27.05.18.53.44.html
Description: Site includes discussions about using the popular TRIBES training in the upper elementary classroom.

http://www.tribes.com/article_building_communities.htm
Description: It is about transforming classroom and school environments into supportive learning communities by implementing a caring process called "Tribes."

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Creating Community in the Classroom

http://www.ncte.org/middle/topics/content/109220.htm

http://www.cortland.edu/c4n5rs/wheel/4.htm

http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/teaching/climate.asp

http://www.teachingstrategies.com/content/pageDocs/BPC_Ch2.pdf

http://www.plsweb.com/resources/newsletters/enews_archives/37/2004/09/07/

http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/academics/center/Teaching_and_Learning_Tips/Creating%20Community%20in%20the%20Classroom/M&M%20Icebreaker.htm

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/interdisciplinary/lp_elementary3.html Third grade performance task

http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/parents/lesson_plans/bullies_classroom_community.html#materials

http://journals.sped.org/TEC/Articles/Harriott37-1.pdf Using culturally responsive activities . . . .

http://www.asu.edu/provost/intergroup/resources/classguidelines.html

http://www.asu.edu/provost/intergroup/resources/classconflict.html

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Bibliography

        http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/disciplinebib.htm
          Description: Comprehensive, annotated bibliography on classroom discipline.


Federal Eric clearinghouse site for accessing journal articles and documents.
http://ericir.syr.edu/

References on the use of graphic organizers in the classroom
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr2refer.htm

Habits of Mind
http://www.habits-of-mind.net/pdf/readings.pdf

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