Hello
and thanks for stopping by to learn about
the site, Teaching Heart! If you would
like to more about this site and the
author of the site, please stay a bit!
 What is
Teaching Heart?
Site
Philosophy: Education
is more than just teaching; it is loving,
caring, showing, communicating, and
growing.
Teaching
Heart is a place to get ideas, whether
you are a teacher, soon to be teacher, or
a student teacher. Also parents and
homeschoolers will find many ideas too.
The purpose of the site is to help all
people that work with children. The
Teaching Heart site believes that
understanding and retention are not
fostered through the excessive use of
workbooks and dittos, but will flourish
in an atmosphere where learning is fun.
The internet is one of the tools that we
can use to make learning fun for our
students. Our hope is that everyone who
visits the site leaves with an idea or
tool they can use in their classroom!
 How it
all began:
Colleen
Gallagher created Teaching is a Work of
Heart in 1998 as a place for her to store
her ideas and lessons on teaching.
Through the site, Colleen enjoys
communicating with other teachers and
listening to their needs. As a result,
she began posting ideas, links, lessons,
and activity sheets upon request of other
teachers. Through 1998-2004 the site has
changed greatly and is now an award
winning site visited by thousands of
primary teachers around the world.
As
the site grew, so did the expense of
keeping the site up. In January of 2002
the site gained a domain name. The
traffic to the site increases each month
and so does the cost of keeping it
online. As a result, Colleen has recently
created Primary Teacher Time Savers
CDROM's to help support the cost and up
keeping of a site that will only grow
bigger and better. Recently we switched
servers. We are no longer with Geocities
and are now with www.arborhosting.com. This
switch has saved the site over $400.00 a
month!!!
Future
Plans for Teaching is a Work of Heart:
Teaching
Heart will continue to grow monthly with
more themes, ideas, and free printables.
There are many wonderful CDROMS and email
packets available for purchase now. Our
hope is that visitors will continue to
purchase and enjoy the products. The
profit from these purchases will help to
keep Teaching Heart online!
Meet
Colleen
After
finishing my student teaching in Life
Skills (Baker Elementary; Upper St.
Clair, PA)
and Second Grade (Streams Elementary;
Upper St. Clair, PA). I joined my
husband, Patrick, in
beautiful Washington State. Patrick was
stationed at Bangor Submarine Base on the
Submarine USS Alabama.
I started teaching at Silver Ridge in April of
1999 as a K-3 Special Education Teacher.
I taught Special Education (Resource
Model & Inclusion Approach) from
April of 1999 to June of 2001. I learned
a great deal from working with students
on a K-3 level. This job gave me the
opportunity to be part of many general
education classrooms and to work with and
learn from many K-3 teachers. I was
exposed to, taught, and modified
curriculum on a PreK through third grade
level. During the 2001 school year, I
changed positions and taught grade 2 at
Silver Ridge Elementary School. I will
have to say that grade 2 is my favorite
grade to teach!!!!
My
husband decided to get out of the Navy in
2001 and took a job in Eatontown, New
Jersey. As much as we both loved
Washington State and as much as I loved
the staff at Silver Ridge, we knew it was
time to be closer to our families on the
East Coast. New Jersey was the birth
place of our first child. Our son was
born in 2002 at Jersey Shore Medical
Center. In July of 2003 we decided to
make one more move... Lucky for me, it
was back to my hometown of Pittsburgh,
PA. We are now living outside of
Pittsburgh & added a beautiful
daughter to our family in 2006. Our
children will grow up close to relatives
and that is very important to us! Not to
mention, we have fantastic
baby-sitters!!! We are hoping that the
Pittsburgh area will be our forever home.
I
have decided to take a few years off from
teaching to be with my children and
concentrate more on the
website and the newly developed products
from Teaching Heart! I feel very
fortunate that the Teaching Heart
products are very much loved and
appreciated my 1000's of Teachers &
Homeschoolers around the World. It is an
awesome feeling to know that my ideas and
printables are touching the minds of so
many students!!! Even greater a feeling
is seeing that 90% of my customers come
pack to buy more... Thanks guys!
I am currently planning on going to
graduate school to get my Masters Degree
for Reading.
I plan to hop back into teaching when all
of my children are in public school full
time. My ultimate goal is to teach
education classes at the college level.
I
enjoy keeping up with all the new and
exciting happenings in education. There
is always a new teacher resource book to
read or a new children's literature book
to read. After I finish these books I
find myself thinking of all the ways I
could use them in the classroom. Daily
teachers are building websites filled
with information about their classrooms.
I enjoy finding these "GEM"
sites and sharing them with others. Also,
I enjoy making and creating teacher
materials for the k-3 levels. Many are
found free on this site. Teaching and
helping other teachers has become my #1
hobby. Teaching Heart is my filing
cabinet of my ideas and ideas from other
thoughtful teachers. I know when I return
to teaching, this site will be my number
one place to print and find ideas that I
have organized. In 1998, when I created
the site, I never dreamed I would learn
so much from so many. I also never
realized that it would become such a huge
resource for millions of Primary Teachers
around the world. I am grateful to God
for allowing me to share with others and
meet so many caring teachers through this
site. Thank you all for your continued
support! It has been great getting to
know many of my visitors! I just love
meeting teachers that care so much about
their students. I have learned so much
from you all! The teachers that visit
this site are the most enthusiastic and
loving group! Thanks!
Below are
some links that tell about me on a
personal and professional level!
www.teachingheart.net
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