If you haven't been to <a href="http://www.jmeacham.com/">Ms. Meacham's classroom website</a>, then you have never been a struggling teacher hungry for help!

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My first year as a teacher in CPS, I was thrown into a disorganized, disorderly working environment. And while I know this is was probably my experience alone and no other first year teachers can relate to this (ha, ha), I was desperate for direction.

 

Enter the World Wide Web. Seek and ye shall find.

 

Mrs. Meacham is an elementary teacher in Wisconsin with twelve years of experience. She lists her hobbies as "website building and organizing STUFF". Well doesn't that sound like just the thing our teachers at our Tech Academies would be interested in?

 

This teacher has not only documented her schedules and routines for every year and grade level she has taught (kindergarten through 5th grade), but she has detailed descriptions about every feature of her instruction. She is a teacher's teacher.

 

On her homepage is the alphabet, with topics organized underneath.  Need help figuring out exactly what your Calendar routine should consist of? That's under C. What about beginning the year with Name Games? Uner N or course! Yes, there are more than five links on the homepage, but Meacham's mainpage is <em>very</em> easy to navigate.