K-3 Motherload

As promised the K-3 Motherload is finally available...

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This is a must have educational ePack for anyone involved in K-3 teaching. With over 600 Printable Worksheets in this educational ePack one can not go wrong. Normally sold as seperate products but due to a major overhaul of the Teaching Treasures product line, I am pleased to be able to make this once only special offer available to you for...

$49.95 AU but only until the 31st of May, 2012

For those teaching K-3 students this is the best bargain yet delivered by Teaching Treasures Publications with plenty of printable worksheets to keep your students occupied for some time. The ePack contains ABC cards in colour, black & white, numbers, improve reading & writing skills, lots of picture formats and worksheets with fantastic art borders.

Worksheets display animals such as bears, butterflies, tigers, swans, octopus and turtles. Clowns, bones, collage, vegies, water, column graph, bar graph, and sea creatures are further topics covered among the dozens covering important Literacy and Numeracy skills for K-3 students.

The K-3 Motherload offer is only until 31st May, 2012 so get your order in quickly. Please allow 2 to 3 days for processing. Your educational ePack will be send to your email address you provide when ordering from the Teaching Treasures shopping cart.

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English lessons for K-3

Using online educational games is an important teaching strategy for any learning environment. As mentioned earlier, useless gaming should be restricted in any classroom. However, educational friendly, online interactive child safe learning is a wonderful tool to help your students enjoy learning.

For young learners such as Kindergarten it is important to set time limits. With that I mean, don't use the PC as a babysitter but as an actual learning tool. Living in a technology based world, children will benefit from becoming familiar with keyboard skills at a young age.

A simple keyboard activity can for example consist of asking Kindergarten students to locate the alphabet letters on the keyboard. By introducing this teaching strategy you will see an improvement in letter recognition, keyboard skills and children recognizing correct spelling when offered two choices.

Teaching Strategy Links:
http://www.teachingtreasures.com.au/teaching-tools/englishk-3/typing_skills.htm
http://www.teachingtreasures.com.au/teaching-tools/englishk-3/Englishmain-online-activities.htm
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If you are teaching K-3 students and in need of some worksheets instead of online games, you may like to check out the following link http://teachingtreasures.com.au/teaching-tools/englishk-3/englishK-3.htm

Class of Missing Teachers

Class of Missing Teachers was the headline as it claimed that “36,000 teachers are on waiting lists for permanent employment and another 7604 new teachers graduated from university last year, about 235 public school classrooms in western Sydney and rural parts of the state have gone unstaffed.”

As teachers are more and more pushed to put in quality teaching time and are forced to dedicate more time on paperwork one may wonder why the Government isn’t putting more effort into finding jobs for those they have trained in the education system.

An explosion in enrolments in Universities in NSW to complete teaching degrees is just another step towards a piece of paper which most will never use for the purpose it was intended… teaching in the classroom. Sadly the cost will outweigh its purpose and usefulness and many teacher graduates will seek employment in other areas.

Although one of the department reports said that there was an oversupply of primary school teachers and an undersupply of teachers in specific subject areas such as maths, science and technological studies, time will tell when the tables turn.

Perhaps Australia will eventually follow for example Thailand’s footsteps where teaching is one of the lowest paid jobs and teaching English is generally mocked as a low-paying dead-end job. In the meantime, for those teachers seeking employment… don’t be disheartened. Your teaching opportunity may be just around the corner!

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