How to Hold a Successful Middle School Open House
An open house can be counted a success when parents, teachers and students walk away smiling. However, there are many pitfalls in staging an open …
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Make Your Classroom's Open House a Success With These Top 10 Tips
Start the year off right in your K-12 classroom with an effective, informative and engaging Curriculum Night. Follow these ten tips to make your Open …
Continue ReadingStrategies for Teachers in Dealing With Bullying
The last thing a teacher needs with a new class is a bullying problem. But identifying bullying, and planning an effective plan to beat it can be a …
Continue ReadingAs Teachers, Are we Unmotivating Our Motivated Students? How Can We Stop?
Children enter our schools motivated and excited to learn. It’s only after teachers start “motivating” them that they typically …
Continue ReadingNotebook Check and Rubrics: Help Your Students Get Organized With a Notebook Check and Rubric
After looking at my students’ notebooks for 13 straight hours. I realized two things: they had no idea what was expected of them; I needed to …
Continue ReadingBack to School Bulletin Board or Door Ideas
Welcome students with a classroom door decoration that incorporates their names. Your students will have fun trying to locate their names in this …
Continue ReadingEffective Parent Teacher Communication Ideas for Success: Advice for New Teachers
As a new teacher, you may not be focused on communicating with the parents of your students. Start the school year off right by introducing yourself …
Continue ReadingHow Dragon Voice Recognition Software Is Used in Education: Student Advantages
For some students, handwriting or keyboarding is a difficult and onerous task. Dragon Naturally Speaking is a software program that allows users to …
Continue ReadingHow 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 …
Continue ReadingTips 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.
Continue ReadingUsing 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 …
Continue ReadingPreparing 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.
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