How to Motivate Students: Follow These Easy Tips to Increase Student Participation
I have a picture. It shows an entire class of 30 students with their heads down. I took it my first year teaching for reasons I no longer recall. I …
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Teaching Methods, Tips & Strategies
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Tips for Improving Self-Esteem in Your Students and in Yourself
In a tempest of insecurity, fears, and lack of self-worth, you can be the anchor for drifting students.
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Using Bloom's Taxonomy for Teachers, With a Kindergarten Classroom as an Example
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy in lesson plans will help teachers to make sure we are teaching higher order thinking skills. Here we have an example of …
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Preparing your Class for Standardized Tests: Teaching Students How to Take Tests
For better or worse, standardized tests are here to stay. The teacher who succeeds is the teacher who prepares is class ahead of time for tests.
Continue ReadingA Basic Guide for How to Plan a Lesson
The beginning, middle and end of a lesson should naturally flow and successfully engage students. This article provides educators with a step-by-step …
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Creating a Lesson Plan: Sample Formats for New Teachers
New to teaching and still having trouble creating great lesson plans? Even if you’ve been teaching for a few years, this tip will help you …
Continue ReadingEarly Adolescence: Jean Piaget's Formal Operational Thought
In the previous article we looked at the psychological effects of physical development during early adolescence. This article will cover Jean …
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Puberty and Low Self Esteem in Early Adolescent Development
During this time in their life, students are experiencing many many dramatic interactions between biological, societal and psychological systems. Many …
Continue ReadingThe Importance of Teaching Cooperation Over Competition: One Teacher's Opinion
Character building programs along with pedagogy that emphasizes cooperative learning should be a part of every elementary student classroom. A school …
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Among Schoolchildren: Parental Involvement and School Performance
Tracy Kidder wrote “Among Schoolchildren” after spending nine months in Mrs. Zajac’s fifth-grade classroom-located in the …
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