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Teachers Network Launches Teachers Network Productions
Teachers Network is proud to announce the launch of a new system for streaming rental of our videos of Successful Teaching Practices in Action online via our website www.teachersnetwork.org with the goal of making our videos more accessible to educators everywhere, instantaneously through the internet. Individual videos are now available for a fee to stream from the web for rental periods of either 24 hours or 2 months directly from www.teachersnetwork.org/videos. Compilations of our videos are also available for purchase on our Teacher Store. Anyone can watch a free promo of each video.

New Teachers Online
View our New Teachers Online page, with updated resources, for information that will enhance your teacher experience.

Read All About It: Teachers Network award winning website noted in October 1, 2009 New York Teacher. 

In his column Linking to Learning, Bill Stamatis, includes Teachers Network as an internet resource for teachers looking for ways to expand your classroom management repertoire.

Teachers Network Wins Prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award

Teachers Network is pleased to announce that “Project-Based Learning for English Language Learners,” a film produced and directed by Teachers Network has won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award. For more information about our complete list of Successful Teaching Practices in Action videos--available for school districts, universities, and others--please visit: www.teachersnetwork.org/videos

Teachers Network Publishes Professional Teachers Handbook

Teachers Network is proud to announce the publication of Professional Teachers Handbook, a practical how-to-guide—with real world, tried-and-true strategies and techniques—that all teachers will find incredibly useful in their everyday professional lives.

Creating A Family Tree
Creating a Family Tree allows children to explore their ancestral background as well as teaches them the basics of genealogy. While the lessons can be completed within a two-week time frame, the project itself may be ongoing throughout the year.
Subject Area:  Social Studies
Grade Level:  Elementary

The Time of Our Lives: Bridging the Generations
In The Time of Our Lives, students discuss their interpretation of the words "generation" and "generation gap" and try to come up with a word or phrase that best defines their own generation. They access an online article, "The New Generation Gap"  by Neil Howe and William Strauss, and discuss whether it has altered or confirmed their beliefs about generations and generation gaps. The students use a worksheet to interview a peer (or write about themselves) and an older person in order to find out what each interviewee considers to be the ten people and events that most shaped their generation's consciousness. The information from the interviews is used to create at least three linking web pages, e.g., an introduction, past generation, and current generation. The pages are written using html code with SimpleText or another text program.
Subject Area:  History, Technology
Grade Level:  Middle school, High school (8-11)

Oral History Interview and Essay
Students are given a handout on how to do an oral history interview and several lessons prepare them for this undertaking. Then, after they have interviewed an older relative or neighbor, they hand in their transcripts or notes (if they have no tape recorder) and learn how to write an essay from their notes or transcripts. Students will use computer applications for word processing, publishing work to a virtual classroom space, and reviewing language arts sites and teacher-developed materials. Students listen for information and understanding, take notes, and produce written work that makes connections to related topics or information. They critique their own writing and a classmate's writing, revise drafts, and publish to a wide audience.
Subject Area:  Language Arts, Journalism
Grade Level:  High school (9-12)

The Balancing Act: Effectively Meeting the Needs of ALL Students and Teachers
Anokhi Saraiya; New York City, NY
In a school with a young principal and a relatively new teaching staff, this case explores differentiated instruction from the point of view of a teacher in an elementary classroom. How do we make differentiated instruction work for all students in a class? How do teaches manage differentiation effectively.

How Great Is the Correlation between a Second Grade Student’s Fluency Rate and the Ability to Comprehend Text?
Cynthia Brawner; Chicago, IL
Conducting this research demonstrated that following the students’ guiding during instruction allows the teacher to modify fluency and comprehension instruction and not rely on the textbook method. This opportunity has heavily influenced the use of differentiated instruction for future classes.
Curriculum Implementation

New Teachers Helpline

Need answers to your pressing questions? Look no further than the NYC Helpline! Staffed by experienced New York City Teachers, the NYC Helpline guarantees a response to your posted questions within 72 hours.

To Tweet, Or Not To Tweet: This Will Answer Your Questions by Brent Sackris
Oprah's doing it.  Ashton's doing it.  Heck, by now, the birds and the bees are probably doing it too, but even in the midst of this 2009 Twittering Tornado that has led Twitter to become the new social networking Wunderkind in the U.S., many people still have some basic questions about what all the fuss is about.  And as a teacher, you may have even less impetus to dive in and sign up to a social networking site that gives you updates about the whereabouts of Jessica Simpson's prized pooch.
However, with a teacher's perspective in mind, this article will give you the ins and outs of signing up for Twitter, and some specific guidelines about what it can do for you as well as what not to do with it.  Hopefully, after reading this article, you'll be able to create a twitter page that will surely give your student-followers something to re-'Tweet' about.

Rethinking is Refreshing! by Sharon Pettey-Taylor
We all have the need to re-organize and sort out “what stays and what goes” in setting priorities for all kinds of information-gathering materials, especially when it consumes our limited, valuable spaces at home. I inadvertently discovered (when rummaging through piles of papers, forms, and notes) that my professional journaling, the nature of which is self-reflective, has its unexpected benefits and pleasures.

Safety on Class Trips by Charlene Davis

Class trips are truly a rewarding way to engage students in real-world learning. Usually, an opportunity to venture out of the school building gets students, as well as many teachers, super excited! What is often less appealing to teachers is the stress of monitoring the safety and well-being of their pupils---no matter their age--- out in the real world. Consequently, the tips shared below, are meant to help make trip-taking an enjoyable, and cooperative, experience for all--- in the name of safety!