Have you all seen this quote? It’s floating around pinterest, and it’s so very true. This and other quotes are used by some authors in poem writing, as a sign of gratitude to teachers, because everyone knows what a difficult job it is, which requires dedication and sometimes self-sacrifice. However, experienced teachers expect not only words of thanks and mentions in letters, but also real incentives and bonuses from colleagues, students and local government institutions. As teachers we know this to be true, so often teachers achieve through their hard work, their effort, and their determination - feats that seem impossible.
This is true of teachers everywhere around the world. There are many teachers that I am personally grateful for at the end of this school year – including the ones who have brought my personal children from speaking no French or Arabic to speaking and reading in both, in just a year’s time. I am also grateful to all of the teachers that I have been able to collaborate with this year via blogs, facebook, pinetrest, twitter and other social media outlets. You have all given me so many amazing ideas and perspectives to change and impact the way that I teach.
In recognition of all of these amazing teachers, I wanted to do something to say thank you for Teacher Appreciation Week. So, I asked the Global Teacher Authors if they would be willing to
contribute to a Global Gift Giveaway. Ten of our amazing authors have agreed, and so today I get to announce that every day from May 1st – May 11th, you will be able to come back here to Global Teacher Connect and get a FREE teacher resources, that you will be able to download directly from Google Docs. It’s our small way of saying Thank You! to all the teachers around the globe who are making miracles happen for their students.Be sure to come back tomorrow to grab your first freebie – but for now, tell us about a teacher you are grateful for this year.
is the ability to teach my children about other countries and other cultures. I try to carry this over into the classroom by using my country books. (You can grab all of the country books I have created for FREE in the exclusive page offered in my Raki’s Rad Resources Newsletter.) In each country book, students list basic facts about the country they are learning about. I make each book exclusive to the country they are learning about – in order to keep their interest and give them clues to the answers they are looking for. 
As an added step, I am starting to make glogs that my students can use to help them find the answers. Here is the glog I created for my Morocco book. I am now working on one for my Egypt book.
the picture and grab one FREE from Google Docs. If you would like the more specific books – sign up for my Raki’s Rad Resources Newsletter and you can grab plenty more from the Exclusive Freebie Page – and I’m developing more all the time, as I have plans to do one country book a month with my students next year!
Hi there, it's Nyla here from Nyla's Crafty Teaching. I teach at the primary school level in Trinidad and Tobago. "Gosh! Where's that?" you may ask. It's a twin island country in the Caribbean right above the coast of Venezuela. This little picture below is my country and our National Flag.
future, to next school year and getting ready for a Fresh Start. This weekend, I am starting a Fresh Start of my own. Raki’s Rad Resources is moving over to a new logo and a new blog – www.rakisradresources.com . In order to celebrate my fresh start, I’d like to set you up with a Fresh Start Package. I’m going to be giving away these four Fresh Start Packages, each valued at over $35 worth of Quality Teaching Resources, at the new blog, and there’s a Fresh Start Freebie for all! One way to enter is by following Global Teacher Connect, so you may have an entry already set up for you! Stop by and sign up!
trip all year. Almost daily, my students ask to go on field trips, but we have not gone. It’s not that there weren’t any available to me, or that the students couldn’t have paid for the trips – it’s simply that I chickened out! This has been my first year here in Morocco, and in addition to learning the school system, I have been learning French and Arabic. I am sure that I could’ve figured out how to get my students to a bank for a field trip during our study of banks, but could I have explained to the bank tellers what I wanted the kids to know? Could I have understood the explanation the bank tellers would have given us? Ummmmm……probably not.
receiving in the United States. For example the chemise de papier was very different to me than a folder as I knew it. Both are used to hold papers (I use mine to send home graded papers), but rather than having the pockets I was familiar with, this has elastic that goes around the outside and holds it all together. The absence of crayons was also interesting to me – while you can find “wax crayons” here in Morocco, they are rare - colored pencil are the norm and the expectation. Construction paper is another item that is very hard to find here in Morocco – instead, we have Canson Paper, which is heavy and more like cardstock. We also do not receive hand sanitizer or baggies, which were “normal” on supply lists I had in the United States. After a year of teaching with these “different” supplies, I have found that at the end of the day, as long as you have something to write with and something to write on – the rest doesn’t really matter!!
with me at their instructional level.) Right now, we are working on my Primary Informational Writing Journal, and our topic is “On a farm, you will find…” Now, when I created this journal, this seemed like a very straight forward question. 
things are – like donkeys (to till the land and pull the cart to the souk), sheep (that are fattening up and preparing for Eid al Adha). peacocks (don’t know why these are on a farm, but all of my kids swear that’s where they belong!), watermelon, pomegranate trees, lemon trees and plenty of olives! 
