1. Consistent Schedule – The school day starts and ends at very specific times. No sudden surprises that you have to work the opening or closing shift!
2. Summer – What other career can provide a 2½ month break and then a chance to restart with a new group.
3. Winter Break – Guaranteed Christmas and New Years with family and friends. No begging the boss for time off or praying you get to line up your vacation with your significant other’s. Guaranteed time off!
4. Minimum Days – What other job has specific days or weeks where you only work 4 hours, but get paid for a full day!
5. Can stay as late as you need or leave right away – The school day doesn’t end for a teacher when the bell rings. There is usually detention and tutoring, but it can end on time every once in a while when you really want to go home.
6. Sub finder – Many districts allow you to call in sick to a computer system. No need to practice your sick voice before calling in.
7. 10 days – Every teacher starts the year with 10 days for illness or personal necessity. Good to have all these days at the beginning of the year and not have to get them one by one based on days and hours. Bonus for the roll over to the next year.
8. Holidays and Weekends – Having this time off is a gift that teachers take for granted too often.
9. Pay scale – A teacher can improve their salary for each year of experience that they work. Also additional education builds your salary as well.
10. You’ll Never Be Bored Again – Meetings, planning, grading, desegregating data, analyzing student report, reading files, contacting parents, etc. A cure for common boredom.

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Empowering students to write effectively builds their self-esteem, confidence and they begin to become risk takers with their creativity. Providing students with good, useful tools, strategies and skills to write is paramount. My helpingwithwriting.com website touches the surface of how to teach writing successfully.

By the teacher role modeling writing first, the students learn the basics of writing. Not only do they see you writing or printing as the case may be, but they also learn how you work with the English Language.

As a whole class, pick a topic everyone is familiar with, example; snow. Next, have the students share the words that come to their mind as you, the teacher write them on the board or better yet chart paper so that the words can be referred to when the students are writing independently.

Simply start by taking the words and making a sentence, example; Snow is white. Capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. Spaces between the words. Period or full stop at the end of the sentence. Simple.

Change the sentence opener to improve the sentence, example; White, fluffy snow floats down to the ground. Use the students words and ideas to raise their self-esteem, confidence and support they creative side. The room will fall silent as the students begin to their own pieces using the tools, strategies and skills to write top-quality sentences. After all, you are the one that will have to read all their writing and wouldn't it be nice to read widely creative work.

Enjoy teaching, Tessie :)

To begin, ask yourself three basic questions:

Where are your students going?

How are they going to get there?

How will you know when they've arrived?

Then begin to think about each of the following categories which form the organization of the plan. While planning, use the questions below to guide you during each stage.

Goals
Goals determine purpose, aim, and rationale for what you and your students will engage in during class time. Use this section to express the intermediate lesson goals that draw upon previous plans and activities and set the stage by preparing students for future activities and further knowledge acquisition. The goals are typically written as broad educational or unit goals adhering to State or National curriculum standards.
What are the broader objectives, aims, or goals of the unit plan/curriculum?

What are your goals for this unit?

What do you expect students to be able to do by the end of this unit?

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How to Develop a Lesson Plan

Testing the abilities of middle school students in science subjects is usually done using a basic quiz. However, this is not the only testing option that is available. Teachers may find it more helpful to test their students' skills with microbiology concepts using more demonstrative testing methodologies.

Testing Method #1 - Labeling Tests

A good way to test a student in microbiology is to set up slides on a variety of students' microscopes. Each slide will contain a specimen that has been prepared for a specific question. To complete the test the student will need to examine the slide using the microscope and then label a drawing on their test that corresponds to the slide.

This is a great testing option if you are working on a unit about cell division or on cellular structures. This testing option can be used to test the students' abilities to use a microscope, their ability to label drawing or to test their ability to identify objects in a slide. This is a great testing option for both spot quizzes and unit quizzes.

Testing Method #2 - Use of the Microscope

Since the use of the microscope is so important in science class, teachers need to evaluate how well their students understand how they are used. After introducing the microscope to a class a teacher will want to quiz their students on its use. This initial test will ask the student to perform tasks with the microscope to demonstrate their skills. These tasks can include things like creating a slide, bringing a slide into focus and changing the lens magnification.

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How to Test Middle School Students in Microbiology