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         <title><![CDATA[Organizing Messy Student Desks]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Teach your students these positive, proactive habits and their student desks will go from messy to organized in no time.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Classroom Set Up Tips]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Step-by-step instructions for how best to set up your elementary school classroom for the first day of school.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Extremely Messy Desks]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[If you have a student with an extremely messy desk, the standard strategies won't be enough to turn the situation around.  Use these hardcore techniques with your most egregious offenders.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Standardized Testing Pressure]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A look at the enormous pressure mounting for teachers when it comes to Standardized Testing.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[How To Write a Lesson Plan]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A simple How to on Writing Lesson Plans.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Teachable Moment]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[What is a teachable moment in the classroom?  Here is the definition of a teachable moment in education.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Elementary Educators - Online Project Center - Transportation - from About.com]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Online Project Center for Elementary Educators, from your About.com Guide.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Extrinsic Motivation]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A definition of the teaching term Extrinsic Motivation.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Back to School]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Use the web to jump start your back to school preparations. For elementary school teachers.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Create Rubrics]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Step-by-step instructions to help you create a rubric for assessing your students' work.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Start Tutoring From Home]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Have you ever considered starting a tutoring business?  Tutoring can be a lucrative and personally rewarding venture that combines the best of teaching with the convenience of designing your own schedule.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Clearing the Clutter]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Ask yourself these questions to clear out your cluttered, counterproductive classroom. You'll love the peace of mind that comes with an organized classroom.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Common Teaching Mistakes]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Are you committing a teacher faux pas?  Review these must-not-do rules and make sure you're not going astray.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tutoring Business Plan]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Once you've planned to start a tutoring business, it's then time to implement a tutoring business plan and start meeting with clients.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Human Scavenger Hunt Game]]></title>
         <link>http://k6educators.about.com/od/icebreakers/qt/ibscavhunt.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Use this Human Scavenger Hunt as a fun Ice Breaker activity for the first day of school.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Scaffolding]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A definition of the education glossary term Scaffolding.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Map Skills Lesson Plan]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Teach your students Map Skills with this Geography Lesson Plan.  Map Skills are an important skill for your students to learn.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Miss Nelson Is Missing]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Use the book Miss Nelson Is Missing to teach your students a Language Arts lesson.  Miss Nelson Is Missing was written by by Harry Allard and James Marshall.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Green Classroom Tips]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Elementary school classrooms can be major hogs of environmental resources, if teachers are not organized, motivated, and diligent.  Here are the top tips for setting up a green classroom that minimizes the environmental impact of daily teaching realities.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bloom&#039;s Taxonomy]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A definition of the education glossary term Bloom's Taxonomy.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[ProperAttire]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Even though &quot;clothing doesn't make the man,&quot; every profession has attire guidelines and teaching is no exception - even when the standards aren't explicitly written down.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Organize Classroom Files]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tips to help you organize your classroom files into proper categories, specifically Elementary School teachers.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Elementary Education - QuickTips]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[An index of QuickTips for the Elementary Education guide site.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Rubric]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[What is a rubric?  A definition for teachers interested in assessing student performance with a rubric.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[8understand]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[While teaching is a rich and rewarding profession, there are some unique challenges involved that non-educators could never comprehend.  Here, a real classroom teacher confesses some of the aspects of the job that make her wonder if summer vacations are really worth it after all.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Classroom Rewards]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Don't spend your hard-earned money buying little material rewards for your students.  See how you can spend nothing and get a whole lot of great behavior in return!]]></description>
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