Busy Teacher Timesaver Guide: Teacher Tips #530

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Weekly Tips for Teachers Issue 530: September 6, 2010

This Week: Busy Teacher Timesaver Guide

1. Timesaver Guide 2. Timesaving Lesson Plans 3. Timesaving Worksheets 4. Graphic Organizers 5. Fall Teacher Guide Teachers: Need Help? Printable Sets Rubrics & Puzzles All K-12 Subjects Timesavers Series Instant Makers Now 30,000+ Printables... View Entire Sets... See How Right Now... For All Teachers: 30,000+ Worksheets/Lessons...

Teacher Resources For Your Week Teaching Tip: Solving a Misunderstanding To help students understand how easily misunderstood someone can be, play the sailing game. Have students make a waterway. Some students can be the banks, some boats in the river, and some rocks and logs in the river. Blindfold a student and have him stand at one end of the waterway. He is the boat. Have another student stand at the other end of the waterway. He is the captain. He has to guide the boat through the waterway using only his words. Boats do not talk so the blindfolded student cannot ask any questions. Students find that it is very difficult to communicate exactly what you want to say. Need more ideas like this? See our "Only 5 Minutes Left Lessons". It's great for all grade levels and subject areas. Teachers become a Teach-nology member now and save tons of time! This Week in History 1521: The first circumnavigation around the globe began by Magellan. 1901: President William McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz.

Teacher Inspiration and Humor Inspiring Teacher Quote "Nine-tenths of education is encouragement." Anatole France Jokes You Can Tell in Class When my mother was called for jury duty, she felt confident of her ability to answer the questions asked of prospective jurors. As a young attorney, I had filled her in on what to expect. Asked about the occupations of family members, Mom answered, "My son is a lawyer." As a follow-up, she was asked if she had ever used the services of an attorney. "Only to mow my lawn."

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