Use these guidelines from the U.S. Department of Education to safeguard your school system against potential emergencies and develop a crisis plan that may save lives. These precautions will help...
Integrating school curriculum involves bringing together subject areas and teaching them in relation to one idea or theme.
Teaching students with special needs in a general education classroom benefits all students involved. The students with special needs receive appropriate education in the least restrictive...
Teaching a child who has a reading disability how to read involves many steps, from assessing the student to choosing the right reading program and materials for instruction. Below are some steps...
Based on 1997 amendments to the Individuals With Disabilities Act (IDEA), public-school administrators and special educators are required to assess and evaluate the need for behavior intervention...
Using games to teach reading is a great way to break the monotony of some reading programs and to keep students' interest level at its peak. Several games are available for purchase, but making...
Using games to teach reading is a great way to break the monotony of some reading programs. There are several games available to buy, but making them is easy and allows you to meet the specific...
You can understand yourself and others better through a basic understanding of the study of handwriting (graphology) to determine the character and personality of the individual.
If you are a high school teacher, you're probably inundated every year with requests for letters of recommendation. We can't promise to make the stack disappear any more quickly, but we can...
Okay, maybe you don’t have what it takes to be a substitute teacher—which entails low pay, lots of stress and a low level of respect from the kids. But teaching an after-school class is a...
Teachers are faced with a number of behavioral issues that occur in their classrooms every day. Oftentimes, teachers are not fully prepared for these challenges and these disruptions affect the...
When Bolshevik revolutionaries, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power in Russia in the late fall of 1917, it seemed to many observers that this Communist takeover occurred virtually overnight. As...
To most Americans, the French revolution of 1789 boils down to three things: Marie Antoinette sneering, “Let them eat cake!”, a ragged mob storming the Bastille and guillotines chopping off...
In the seven or eight years leading up to World War II, physicists in Germany, England and the US discovered the basic principles of nuclear fission—that a uranium nucleus will release energy...
Ever since the principle of nuclear fusion was discovered in the early to mid-20th century, scientists have tried to figure out how to harness its energy. The challenge: atoms fuse at millions or...
Effective classroom discipline requires structure and limits that are set by the teacher early on in the school year. Most teachers list several rules for students to follow but having such a...
One of the most divisive conflicts in our nation’s history, the Vietnam War is almost as poorly understood today as it was back when we were fighting it. Here’s a step-by-step explanation of how...
Perhaps because it followed the unambiguous victory of World War II, the Vietnam War stands out in many peoples’ minds as the only conflict the United States has ever “lost.” But this is an...
By the time it was halfway over, practically everyone involved had forgotten how the Hundred Years' War had started—and by the time it ended, only a few people remembered what it was all about....
Unlike some leisurely, low-intensity wars in medieval-to-modern Europe—such as the Hundred Years’ War or the War of the Spanish Succession—the Thirty Years’ War in the early 17th century was a...
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