Lesson Plans for Purchase

I have found a great website called: Teachers Pay Teachers. This is a great tool for educators because you can both upload your own lesson plans and download lesson plans from other teachers. You have the option to get paid for your lesson plans or make them free. And it's the same for downloads - some are free and others you have to pay for.

Here's my profile on TeacherPayTeacher.com: Loren Prince's Store. It's worth checking out if you are a Social Studies or History teacher grades 6 through 12. I have already uploaded a few things and will be adding more during the next couple weeks.

Lesson Plans

Here is a link to my Google Website. On this particular page you'll find a few examples of some of the lessons I have created. These are just PowerPoints so there are lesson guides or core standards listed. These were individual lessons I created for the World History class that I taught when I was a student teacher.

Enjoy.

Education Portfolio Lesson Plans

Education Week Magazine

Education Week Magazine is a great resource for teachers. It has articles on the latest topics in the field of Education around the country - keeping you up to date on what's going on for teachers.

Check out their website: http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html

New Literacy Demonstrates An example article from Education Week.

Getting back in the blogging game

All right folks...I need to get back into this blogging thing. I have left you too long without my knowledge and wisdom on education. :-) Well for what it's worth I'm going to try to be more active with this blogging.

A little update for anyone who reads this: my wife and I have left Guatemala, we found out she was pregnant before we left Guatemala, we moved in with my in-laws, our daughter was born safe and healthy on May 21st 2012, and we are now living in Wisconsin. My wife is teaching third grade bilingual education to third graders and I am a Stay-at-Home Dad. I have a little spare time on my hands so I should be able to update this blog.

Some things I've added:

Custom Google Search. This feature allows readers to search education websites for articles. These are websites that are either from universities or they are the web versions of education publications. If you have suggestions for a website that I should include in this search please don't hesitate to comment.

Some things to come:

Lesson Plan Page. I will be completing a page I started a few months ago that will be dedicated to lesson plans. On this page I will have a mixture or my own lesson plans and reviews of lesson plans that I have found on the internet.



That's all for now. Happy Thanksgiving!

L. Prince



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Help Educate Kids in Guatemala

El Hato School (Escuela El Hato) is a public school located in an 100% indiginous village. Although it is a public school most students are unable to afford the cost of attending. Earth Lodge is an organization accepting monetary donations to provide school supplies and food for these students. Please read Earth Lodge's blog to find more information on how you can help these kids at El Hato.

Your donations will help to provide:
- school supplies at the beginning of the school year and through out the year as donations are received
- a weekly supply of vegtables to supliment the students' diet

Thank you for taking the time to read this and your consideration of donating is greatly appreciated by this educator.

A great article on keeping up stamina for the school year

Teaching Secrets: After the Honeymoon

Helpful tips for keeping your energy up for the full school year. Mostly common sense stuff, but always good to read about how you can make yourself a better teacher.

New week...

Monday: This week will I will give my first set of final exams: first to my shelter class and then to my TOEFL class. My shelter class exam will be a simple test of basic grammar, but with a short essay response to add a little something more to the exam. My TOEFL test will have students reading an academic passage and answering questions; responding in an essay to a question; and responding by speaking to a different question. These are all things that they will have to do on the actual TOEFL test and it's what we've been practicing for the last five weeks.

Thursday Night: I started this post on Monday morning and never got a chance to finish it. My exams on Wednesday went well. I began grading part of the test and they appear to have done just fine. One section of my exam was a speaking section - this is where I truly learned how well my students might do on their actual TOEFL exam. What they had to do was prepare notes in response to a question and then give a oral response to the question. I graded it on a scale of 1 to 5: I had no 1s and no 2s, a couple of 3s, mostly 4s, and about five 5s. I was pretty happy with the results, but some of my students still have a lot of work to do before they try to take the TOEFL exam. This is where I think my class website might help some of them out. On my website I have included my e-mail address so students can ask me questions and I have also listed useful websites for them to use for preparation. I hope that some of my students try to contact me in the future with questions or concerns about the TOEFL Test. It would mean a lot to me if I could help them in some way.

Next week is my final week with my other classes. With Quinto Secretariado I will be watching an English movie. With Cuarto Secretariado I will be practicing their spelling skills in preparation for their final exam. During the rest of my time at school I will be working on finishing my grading for Quinto Ciencias and for my other classes as well.

Well, I'll try to write again later this weekend or next week. Perhaps I'll be able to put up more of my activities/lesson plans.