Activities, PowerPoints, and More...
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Storytelling-to-Writing-Celebrating-Diversity Help students use storytelling as a prewriting activity for narrative essays
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Edutainer-How-to-Educate-Engage-and-Entertain-Students Are you an educator, entertainer, both? This interactive PowerPoint will help you engage and entertain
students as they take command of their learning through collaborative activities
Need back to
school ideas? Try these PowerPoints:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Share-Your-Knowledge Let students become the experts in the classroom!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/First-Day-Introduction-PowerPoint Help students understand who you are through a life map, what classrooms rules to follow, and why writers
write about what they know
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Beth-Hammett_category/Products/Select/first%20day%20powerpoint/Page-2 Understanding and knowing your students
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Find-Someone-Who-Bingo Bingo for getting to know one another! Fun for all!
Early grades back to school
activities: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Letter-Recognition http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Coloring-Packet
What kind of teacher are you? http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Teaching-Traditional-vs-Contemporary Other PowerPoints
can be viewed at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Beth-Hammett
Professional Development Services
A project tailored to fit your needs, Beth Hammett, M.A., Assistant
Professor of Writing at College of the Mainland, will let you custom design a program that will meet your needs!
A current developmental educational specialist, certified
through NADE and Kellogg Institute, as well as college English instructor, and former seventh grade teacher, Ms. Hammett
has worked with at-risk, GT, and Pre-Ap students in a student led classroom. Her classroom management skills can provide teachers
with a way to include all levels of students in projects that increase motivation and knowledge while decreasing behavioral
classroom problems. Beth may be contacted at 713-870-4346. Email: mbhammett@aol.com.
Ms. Hammett's certifications
include: Developmental Education Specialist (NADE/Kellogg), Secondary English, Emotional Intelligence, and Peer Mediation. Beth's
accolades include NCTE/CCCC PEP award, Townsend Press Developmental Essay winner 2007 and 2006, 2007 Advanced Kellogg, 6 Seconds
Emotional Intelligence, 2006 COM Instructor of the Year Finalist, 2006 Teaching Excellence Award, 2006 Kellogg Institute/NADE,
Texas President's Travel and Research Grant Recipient for 2006, former Co-Director of Greater Houston Area Writing Project
(NWP), TMSA Region IV Teacher of the Year for 2004, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and Dickinson ISD Secondary Teacher
of the Year (2004) as well as Channel 2 Sunshine Award winner.
Additional Presenter: Elementary level presenter Ms. Frase's accolades include National Board Certified teacher, Greater Houston Area
Writing Project (NWP) consultant, TCTELA 2006 Teacher of the Year, Masters Reading Teacher, and Masters in Science and Reading
with Reading Specialization.
Choose a lesson plan according to skills needed and grade level:
Educational and Corporate Presentations
Emotional
Intelligence--learn people soft skills to help you in any situation. This program is custom designed to help your employers
and employees manage their decision making process. For further information view www.6seconds.com (endorsed by Daniel Goleman).
College Level Presentations
1. Developmental Writing Workshop--get your college students involved in the writing
process: peer workshopping, active learning strategies, and author showcasing.
2.
Student Wellness Learning Community--setting up a learning committee that includes emotional intelligence strategies as well
as mind, body, and soul improvements.
3. First Year Experience--struggling
to set up a FYE initiative? What topics should you include? How do you train others? How one college has focused on building
an FYE program as their Achieving the Dream initiative!
Elementary
and Secondary Workshops
1. From Storytelling to Writing: A hands-on art activity that has students
symbolizing their oral histories. Students create a life map of their
their lives then tell their stories to peers
and use the writing process
to complete their oral histories.
Appropriate for grades 2 and up.
2. Comic
Book Writing: What better way to involve ELL and at-risk
students than to combine illustrations and words! A great hands-
project using technology, symbolism, dialogue and the writing
For Pre-Ap and GT, Kidspiration or wireless networking
can be
included. Beautiful published projects!
Appropriate for grades 4 and up.
3. Peer Workshopping:
Need a way to teach revising and editing to your
students? Color coding is a visual tool that can be used in any
grade
level. Teaches students how to revise and edit papers while
following scoring guides/rubrics.
4. Ekphrasis:
Plato’s version of using artwork as a stepping stone to
writing. An excellent visual tool combining written words,
color strips, and on a pretty day an outdoor picture activity.
Appropriate for grades 1 and up.
5. Publishing:
A Question and Answer Series
Introduce students to the world of a real writer, editor, and
published author. How
to get published, where to send work,
what do writers really do and how the process works. Fun for
all ages.
Appropriate for grades 2 and up.
6. Let’s All Get the Blues!
A poetry session combining music and
writing. Want to get
your students rocking and rolling? This activity will do it!
Comes complete with author read-around.
Appropiate grades 6 and up.
7. Fires in the Bathroom
Based on Cushman’s book, a look at what students
want from teachers and high school. Includes lesson plans for using the novel.
8. TAKS Writing
A hands-on
workshop to increase TAKS writing scores. Includes many tips, samples, and how-to.
9. Emotional Intelligence: A Look at Using EI in the Classroom
What is EI, and how can it help students succeed?
