Teaching Specific Subjects | Articles
Get fresh ideas for making your teaching—in the home or in the conventional classroom—fresh and exciting. Articles are grouped according to subject.
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After School Programs
Art
- Art: A Way to Teach Thinking
- Art in Early Childhood Education
- God, the Bible, and Art, Part 1
- God, the Bible, and Art. Part 2
Bible
- Bible Teaching That Educates the Mind and Directs the Feet
- Compassion: The Key to Full-Time Service
- How Do I Teach Bible?
- Improving Morning Devotions
- Missions in the Classroom
- Teaching a Christian Philosophy
- Teaching the Word
Coaching
Early Childhood Education
Electives
English
- Joys and Challenges of Teaching English, The
- Paper, Pennies, Popcorn, and Grammar?
- Phonics: A Tool for the Task of Reading
- Phonics: A Word-Family Affair
- Verbal Skills & College
Handwriting
History/Geography
- Another Hero for Black History Month
- Education and Black History
- Geography Games and Activities
- Geography: Passport to Life
- Making History Interesting
- Making History Lively
- Observing Black History Month
- "Providentialism" and the Teaching of History
- Relating Current Events to End-Time Prophecy
- Teaching God's Providence in History
- Thinking Faith: A Student's Thoughts
- What Happened to the STORY in History?
Literature/Reading
- 2005 Newbery Award Winner Book Review: Kira-Kira
- 2006 Newberry Award Winner Book Review: Criss Cross
- 2007 Newbery Award Winner Book Review: The Higher Power of Lucky
- 2008 Newbery Award Winner Book Review: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
- 2009 Newbery Award Winner Book Review: The Graveyard Book
- About Book Reports
- Assessing Reading Progress: How to Make the Grade
- Award Winning Books . . . Says Who?
- Biblical Approach to Objectionable Elements, A
- Christian and Secular Literature, The
- Declining Literacy
- Developing Readers: A Christian Imperative
- Fantasy Myth, The
- Interview with Eileen Berry
- Interview with the Author of the Colton Cousins
- Learning From Literature
- Making Customized Reading Lists
- On Selecting Biographies
- Reading Aloud to Children
- Reading Well, Reading Right
- Round-Robin Reading Rethought
- Spy Out The Amber Spy Glass
- Teaching Reading
- Where Does Johnny Read?
Math
- Can You Leave Algebra Class Smiling?
- Managing Manipulatives
- Missing Ingredient, The
- Proper Use of Manipulatives in the Math Classroom, The
- Should Students Use Calculators in the Classroom?
- Should Students Use Graphing Calculators in the High School Classroom?
- Using Math Manipulatives to Aid Learning
Parent/Teacher Relationships
- Helping Parents Prepare Their Children for School
- Improving Communication
- Parents are People Too
- Pet Peeves About Parents
- Smooth Traffic on a Two Way Street
- Some Lessons Learned
Science
- Grasping at Stars: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
- New Front in the War on Creationism, A
- Reading Science with Discernment
- Redeeming Science
- Talking to Students About Stem-Cell Research
Special Education
Student Teacher
- Attention, Please: Keeping Students Listening
- Learning by Doing Is Back in Vogue
- Metronome & The Rocking Chair, The
- So You Have a Student Teacher
- Teachers Making a Difference by Rescuing and Guiding Lives with Love
- That First Day
Student/Teacher Relationships
- But for A Moment
- Case for Compassion, The
- Joys of Peer Pressure, The
- On Becoming Real
- Personal-Touch Teaching
- Some Lessons Learned
- Teacher and the Trouble Maker, The
- Teaching Ethical Thinking in Every Class
Study and Thinking Skills
Testing & Evaluation
- Achievement Tests Are for Teachers Too!
- Achievement Tests—Just One Tool
- Assessing Reading Progress: How to Make the Grade
- Evaluating Comprehension
- Halo or Horns?
- Making Essay Questions Work
- Making Students Accountable
- Most Important Equation, The
- What Do Tests Really Tell?
Textbooks
Writing
- E-mail from an Old Writing Teacher (To a New One), An
- Inspiring Reluctant Pens
- Interview with author Elaine Schulte