============================================================= TeAch-nology.com's- Weekly Tips For Teachers **Issue #53** "The Web Portal For Educators!" We're up to 5501 subscribers http://www.teach-nology.com ============================================================= This newsletter is only sent to the users of TeAch-nology.com, but feel free to forward it to all your friends. ============================================================= 1. Best On The Web For Teachers- This week's results are based on on 1817 votes by teachers. To place your vote go to: http://teachers.teach-nology.com/ This Week's Winners for "The Best on the Web for Teachers" are: First place (9.21): http://www.lessontutor.com/ Second Place(9.18): http://www.lessonplanz.com/ Third Place (9.16): http://www.geocities.com/easylessonplans ============================================================= 2. Teachers: How Will Your Be Spending Your Summer Vacation? Got 3 Minutes? Eliminate Your DEBT for FREE!! 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Check Out Our Cartoon Of the Day, Click Below: http://www.teach-nology.com/news/ ============================================================= 6. Download of the Week- PC Download: *Flash Cards* "It's a simple flashcard program that covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You can select any one of the operations to practice on, or have the program mix them up. Facts up to 10 or 12 are selectable. A four minute timer runs in the background, and a count of correct/incorrect answers is displayed." ------------------------------------------------------------- Mac Download: *Screen Cloze* "ScreenCloze is a Macintosh Application for making and completing on-screen cloze procedure passages. Simple creation of cloze passages for on screen use. Easy creation of cloze work sheets. Text to speech, children can listen to the passage they have answered and then make corrections. 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Ask Our Experts- ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "Where can I find functional behavior assessments and plans to print up and use in IEP planning?" ************************************************************* TeAch-nology.com's Staff Response: Go to our teaching tutorial section: http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/ and click on Conducting A Functional Behavioral Assessment. ************************************************************* A question from Anonymous: "My son is considering secondary education as a college major. 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The bottom line is determining the reading level of your student and creating the right opportunity for that student to develop literacy skills needed to be considered a "fluent reader." Try going to some of the sites that are recommended on the following pages: http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/literacy/ and http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/ (sections on literacy)." ============================================================= 10. "Our Latest Idea That Worked!" "Making Testing Do-able" By: Jody R., Prep Teacher: Newark, New Jersey "It seems like towards the end of every year, all students are doing is taking tests. Students often will do less than their best work just do to the stress of it all. What I did to combat this is pull them out of their stressed little world's in between tests. I would usually play a game with them that took their minds off of testing. 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