Table of Contents
Foreword
A First Thing: Five Secret Tales of Jewish Teaching8
Sixty-five Things About Planning
-Five Things to Do Before the First Day12
-Five Things I Wish I Had Done at the Beginning of the Year13
-Five Challenges for the Second Day of Class15
-Five Reasons to Stand by the Door17
-Five Things to Do in the First Fifteen Minutes19
-Five Things to Include in Your First-Day Plan21
-Five Things You Should See When You Walk into a Classroom22
-Five Things Teachers Should Keep in Their Trunks23
-Five Ways to Create Community in the Classroom25
-Five Things You Can Do to Energize and Recapture Your Classroom
for the Rest of the Year 27
-Five Great Year-End Activities29
-Five Things to Do on the Last Day of School30
-Five Things You Can Do to Extend Learning into the Summer32
Forty-five Things About School-to-Home Communications
-Five Reasons to Send a Letter Home at the Beginning of the Year36
-Five Tips for Effective Parent-Teacher Conferences38
-Five Key Points to Keep in Mind When Writing Progress Reports and
Five Tips about Progress Reports39
-Report Cards: Five Tips for Writing Meaningful Comments41
-Five Ways to Enlist Parents� Help in the Classroom43
-When Children Have Two Homes45
-When Children Have Two Homes II: Dealing with Two Families47
-When Children Have Two Homes III: Five Technical Issues49
-A Death in the Family: Five Questions for When Your Student Loses
a Family Member51
Fifty-three Things About Lesson Planning
-Five Thoughts About Lesson Planning56
-Five Ways to Begin a Lesson57
-Great Beginnings: Five Objectives�Five Set Inductions59
-Five Great Ways to End a Lesson61
-Transitions: Opportunities�Not Wasted Time63
-Five Kinds of Seatwork That Make a Difference65
-Eight Ways to Help Students Retain What They�re Learning67
-Five Ways to Help You Think about Your Own Teaching69
-Two Sets of Five Ways to Know if You�ve Had a Successful Day71
Thirty-seven Things About Classroom Management
-Five Ways to Get Kids to Line Up74
-Carol�s Ten Least Effective Management Techniques75
-Twelve of Jim Fay�s Twenty-three Quick and Easy Classroom Interventions77
-Five Reflections on the Privilege of Working with a Madrikh or Madrikhah79
-Five Ways to Use Madrikhim in Your Classroom81
Forty-six Things Effective Teachers Do
-What�s in a Question? Six Levels from Bloom 84
-Five Questioning Do�s and Don�ts86
-Five Strategies for Dealing with Students� Answers87
-Five Thoughts about Praising89
-Five Meaningful Ways to Praise91
-Five Ways to Handle Student Absences93
-Five Things to Include in Your Sub Folder when the Teacher is Absent95
-Five Strategies to Increase Active Participation in the Learning Process97
-Five Strategies for Giving Effective Directions98
Tools of the Trade: Seventy-five Things to Keep Up Your Sleeve
-Five Ways To Create Bulletin Boards If You Don�t Have Any
(or If What You Have Is Inadequate)102
-Five Great Party Ideas103
-Five Ways to Use the News in Your Classroom105
-Five Things to Consider When Planning a Field Trip106
-Five Field Trip Ideas107
-Five Categories of Guest Speakers for Your Classroom108
-Five Things to Do to Use Videos Effectively109
-Five Great Classroom Book Projects111
-Five Ways to Use Jewish Books113
-Five Great Ways to Teach and Learn with the Jewish Internet114
-Flashcards: Five Activitives119
-Five Great Classroom Projects121
-Five Great Tzedakah Projects123
-One Project: Five Stories124
-Five Ways to Celebrate the Accomplishments of Jewish Women125
Seventy-five Things for Holiday Celebrations
-Five Jewish Calendar Activities128
-Five More Jewish Calendar Activities130
-Rosh ha-Shanah/Yom Kippur Activity: Five Projects for Beginning
the New Year132
-Five Great Hanukkah Party Ideas134
-Five Purim Activities for Your Classroom136
-Ten Classroom Pesah Projects138
-Seven More Pesah Projects139
-Five Ways to Help Your Students Enhance Their Sedarim.141
-Five Pesah Activities for the Early Childhood Classroom143
-Five (Really Eleven) Pesah Ideas for Home and School (or From School
to Home)145
-Five Prince of Egypt Study Guides147
-Seven Ways (and Many Resources) to Help Commemorate
Yom ha-Shoah148
-Five (Plus One) Projects for Yom ha-Atzma�ut150
Forty Ways to Enrich the Teacher in You
-Interviewing: Five Types of Questions Principals Should Ask Teachers 154
-Five Considerations When Interviewing for a Jewish Teaching Position156
-Five Books Recommended by Teachers for Teachers 158
-Three Sets of Five Great and Small Things to Honor Your Teachers159
-Five Things an Educator Should Do Over the Summer161
-Five Things You Can Do to Enrich Yourself Over the Summer162
Forty-one Things About Using Torah Aura Materials
-Six Ways to Use Bim Bam and C.Ha164
-Five Ways to Use Now I Know My Alef-Bet166
-Five Ways to Use the Alef Celebration Lessons167
-Five Ways to Use the Posters for Now I Know My Alef-Bet and
Marilyn Price & Friends Present the Alphabet from Alef to Tav168
-Five Ways to Use the Now I Know My Alef Bet Wall Posters169
-Five Ways to Use the Alef Parent Education Folders171
-Five Ways to Use Jewish Values from Alef to Tav Stories in Your Classroom172
-Five Ways to use Marilyn Price & Friends Present the Alphabet from
Alef to Tav in Your Classroom173