After a long day or draining week of teaching, sometimes you just want to put on the TV and press play on a show or movie. Isn’t it a little weird sometimes to watch movies with teachers or about teaching? It can be fun, but sometimes not too relaxing. You
I know some of you have actually started back to school ALREADY and are thinking fall. I have 5 weeks left but I am still thinking: How do I get my students engaged in writing this fall? Well, I created this writing prompt to help! You can download this writing
YES! They sure are! If you are making your own quiz, or if you bought a self-grading quiz from somewhere like Teachers Pay Teachers, as long as the “quiz” option was selected, and correct answers were assigned when the quiz was created, then at the end, the student can choose
This year, I felt for some reason like I was drawing a blank when it was back to school time and I was trying to think of what I needed to make sure I had. I also was mentoring a new teacher so I was trying to be organized. After
Parent communication can be complicated, can’t it? When I started teaching in 1997, these were the methods of parent communication: handwritten notes/memos, phone calls, and one or both of those were needed to arrange the third type of communication: in person meetings! Now it’s a whole new, complicated, ball game!
We all know that teachers go home exhausted every day and it is probably is just “the way it is” for all of us. At the end of last year, I was more exhausted than I had ever been and it took me a long time to decompress during the
It’s been an extremely difficult few weeks for the millions of folks who have been affected by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. The storms also coincided with back to school so many teachers have been wondering – how do I help? Or what can my school/classroom do to help? Since
I love music – I love listening to it, singing along, and I play a bunch of instruments too… and I love to share music and incorporate music with my second grade students. Plus, many of my friends have young kids and I know parents are always trying to find
I have a quick and easy tip for you! With my student desks, the students would have folders where they were supposed to keep their incomplete work in there. Of course some students did and some just shoved their papers in their desks. I found this idea somewhere on the internet
I know some of you have already gone back to school, and you know what that means? Halloween will be approaching fast! If you’re looking for some Halloween costume ideas, I have rounded up a couple of my own ideas and many terrific Halloween costume ideas for teachers from around
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