Make your substitute's life easier by using the prompts on a one-page resource to a craft a profile of your classes and your daily routines. A great-first page for a substitute teacher folder.

It's important for teachers to have a strong support system—especially in the first few years of their career. Help teachers' partners, spouses, and friends understand the most compassionate ways to provide emotional support with a...

Prepare for your students first day of school with these inviting activities. This site features several great ideas for teachers to incorporate in their beginning of school lessons.

Are you looking for some creative activities to get to know your students on the first day of class? This site has compiled a list of great activities, icebreakers, and team-building games to get your classes off on the right foot.

An interactive site for students to learn about school desegregation. Photographs, oral histories and questions help guide the students to their conclusions.

Are you looking for some great activities to use in your classroom on the first day? Here are some activities you can do with students on the first day back to school. Some are fun, some are valuable as learning tools, and some are both.

This site offers suggestions for first-day of school activities for primary and intermediate level teachers.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The passage "First Day Folly" focuses on a pre-teen who is nervous about the first day of middle school. It is followed by a comprehension question set and answer key and a vocabulary worksheet for the...

No matter how many years spent in the classroom, every teacher could use some "first week" ideas. Find quick and easy back-to-school tips to help you with seating charts, tackling the first day of school, classroom management and time...

No matter how many years spent in the classroom, every teacher could use some "first week" ideas. Find quick and easy back-to-school tips to help you with seating charts, tackling the first day of school, classroom management and time...

Several tips for teachers to try during the beginning days of the school year to get things off to a smooth start.

Kids Health offers tips and words of encouragement for kids going back to school, especially those who are shy. Click on "Feelings" for lots of ideas on learning to deal with a variety of emotions and situations relating to school and...

A blog, written by Larry Ferlazzo, provides information and online resources from his book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, on getting the school year off to a good start.

Students learn to organize data, look for patterns, and solve problems. They will count the number of "coins" in a variation of The Twelve Days of Christmas song. They will also generalize the patterns through symbolic expressions.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares advice about how to make the first day of school a great one. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

Is this your first year teaching? Here are tricks of the trade that are helpful to know. Includes tips on management, discipline, lesson plans for all grades and subjects and more! This is your complete survival guide!

Repeatable, daily activities are one of the best ways to instill the counting sequence for children. This activity requires a 100 chart which can be made or purchased. Students will count the "Number of the Day" beginning with 1 on the...

"A Good Student" is a one page, fictional reading passage about a freshmen going to a large high school on the first day of school. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the...

Great ideas for "100th Day" activities. Most of these would be a good challenge for upper elementary school students if you want to include them in your 100th Day celebration. Activities include counting, measuring, weighing, sorting,...

Students will practice their ability to acknowledge new information expressed by classmates. A good lesson for the first day of school!

If you asked students what comes to mind first when they think of Labor Day, what do you think they would say? The last days of summer? A family picnic? Shopping the Labor Day sales? The purpose of this lesson is to broaden and deepen...

Contains plans for two lessons of get-to-know-you activities that use a Name Bingo Game to help students break the ice with each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

Read about the famous civil rights protest in Little Rock, Kansas in 1957 when nine African American students attempted to enter Central High School on the first day of school. Despite the presence of federal troops at the school for the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...