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Teaching Ideas from KNEA Members
- "I Can Do It" offered by KNEA
- KNEA training helps new teachers succeed. Yet another education resource from KNEA!
- 25 Tips for Successful Parent Conferences
- Communicating with parents is one of the most important things we do as teachers.
When we can work together with a child's parents toward common goals, we improve
the atmosphere for learning. Here are some tips to help make your parent conferences productive and successful.
- Avoiding gender bias
- Gender bias has been in the spotlight for the past few years following
studies that pointed out male favoritism in our classrooms. What was disturbing in the findings was that many classroom teachers
were guilty of gender bias and were totally unaware of what they
were doing! Here are some suggestions for avoiding gender bias in your classroom.
- Beginning secondary school teachers get "launch-pad" to mastery
- Help is here for beginning secondary school teachers!
- Best practices for using technology
- What's the best way to use computers in the classroom? Find out in, Connecting the Bits: A Reference for Using Technology in Teaching and Learning in K-12 Classrooms, available free online from the NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education.
- Closing the Achievement Gap
- KNEA and its members have set their sights on the achievement
gap as our goal for changing the world. We have begun to use data on student learning to identify groups
that are performing significantly below their peers.
- Community Colleges and Area High Schools:
- JCCC, through partnerships designed to share educational resources
and opportunities with its area high schools, seeks to enhance the
education of the children within its county. JCCC's Keeping
Options Open (KOO) program was established to address the
many goals it has for working with the county's high schools.
- Dear Parents Letter
- A template you can use to create a letter to send to parents at the beginning of the year.
- Foolproof Field Trips
- Field trips are wonderful opportunities to use the community as a learning
device and expand teaching resources. An excursion outside the classroom can add realism to an area of study. A history
lesson on the Civil War can become real in a student's imagination during
a visit to a battleground or fort. Kansas is a wealth of experiences waiting
to be explored! Don't let yourself get so excited about the trip, however, that you race
through critical preparations and overlook key elements that provide an educational
and safe experience for both the students and yourself. Here is a starter checklist.
- Great IDEA resource from NEA
- NEA Professional Library's IDEA Survival Guide can help
you make sense of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act '97 (IDEA).
You'll find practical advice on discipline, developing Individualized Education
Programs, and more. Check it out free online.
- KNEA Members Featured in NEA's Works4ME
- Some of the many brilliant teachers in Kansas get a tip published in NEA's Works4Me electronic newsletter. The competition is stiff because NEA receives so many great ideas, but KNEA members' tips are often chosen as one of the best.
- KNEA REACHES future leaders
- An emerging leader training, REACH stands for Realizing,
Engaging, Achieving, Creating and Honoring
new members. It is held annually for teachers with five or fewer
years of experience, support personnel and KNEA-Student Program
members who have been identified by colleagues or staff as having
potential leadership skills.
- Maintaining Classroom Discipline
- Helping students to govern their own behavior in ways that help
them learn is a long-standing goal of all teachers. There are a
number of ways in which a teacher can promote good discipline in
the classroom.
- Making Sense of Standards and Assessments
- Three new books from the NEA Professional Library can help you
make more sense of how to implement standards-based learning and
assessment with your students.
- NEA Reading resources are excellent
- Reading is the gateway
to learning in all content areas and essential for achieving high standards.
- NEA Task Force Guide helps make low-performing schools a priority
- NEA's new priority schools resource guide offers a framework to help you prepare
your school for improvement. Tools include ideas and examples for preparing
action plans, coordinating staffing and professional development, and mobilizing
parents and the community.
- Need help with high stakes tests?
- Schools, teachers and students should all be held to high standards, and NEA
believes that accountability should be shared by schools, education employees,
policymakers and parents -- with the ultimate goal of helping every student
succeed.
- Parents as partners
- Educators know what an important difference parent involvement
can make in a child's education. But, what can you do to show parents
the role they can play and make them a strong and lasting school
ally?
- Phonemic Awareness best predictor for reading success
- The principles and ideas written about in NEA's publication, Ten
Proven Principles for Teaching Reading, are are based on solid research findings
and practical experience. Research provides new information about
basic cognitive and instructional processes, particularly those
involved in reading comprehension.
- Recognizing and Reporting Possible Child Abuse
- Report Suspected Abuse -- If you have a reasonable basis to believe that a student is a victim of child
abuse, Kansas law requires you to report your suspicions of abuse or neglect
to the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services or the local
law enforcement agency. Kansas teachers are mandated reporters under the Code
for Care of Children (K.S.A. 38-1501 et.seq.).
- Some more tips to help you start your school year right!
- A little planning
at the beginning of school can pay big dividends as you go through
the coming school year. Here are some more more suggestions to consider before school starts.
- Start your School Year Right
- Regardless if this is your first or 21st year of teaching, it's
always good to review advice from your colleagues. A little planning
at the beginning of school can pay big dividends as you go through
the coming school year. Here are some suggestions to consider before school starts.
- Suggestions for Successful Parent Conferences
- Students learn best when parents are involved in their children's
schools. When parents and teachers work together, students achieve
higher test scores and grades, demonstrate positive behavior and
attitudes - resulting in improved long-term academic achievement.
- Summer Vacation Rules
- Yes, there are rules you need to follow
for your first summer vacation as a teacher. But don't worry
if you don't follow all of them -- there are no vacation
police or mentors checking your progress.
- Survival of Substitutes
- You aren't planning on it right now, but sometime you're
going to miss a day of school. KNEA members say early in the school year is the ideal time to
begin preparing for that event because the questions you have are
the same questions a sub will have. Later, with the routine established,
you may forget to think about such details.
- Talking about teasing and bullying
- One of the most important discussions going on in schools today is dealing with students who use violent and aggressive behaviors. How do teachers identify students who exhibit these behaviors? How should teachers work with students so that they choose appropriate behavior at school? These are just two of many important questions that educators are working to answer to effectively promote a safe school environment.
- Ways to Avoid Classroom Burnout and Stay Healthy
- Coping with Stress in the Classroom. Experienced teachers have found these useful techniques and "preventive
medicine" to protect against debilitating stress symptoms.
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