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Love Teaching But Dread Going Back? A Few Ideas

Summer vacation is about to screech to a sudden halt. You’re on the beach Tuesday and Wednesday you’re back to Staff Preparation Days.

Navigating new hallways, making friends, & finding ‘their place’ is challenging for ‘the new kid.’ Here are some ways to support them.

Learning / August 19, 2016 / Play

The problem we are all trying to address is that informal learning–sometimes called ‘play’–doesn’t count for anything, and it should.

Literacy / August 14, 2016 / New Teacher

Image or picture thinking is the innate process dyslexic thinkers use. Our educational system is just beginning to understand how to best respond.

From how digital assignments are turned in to what students should do if they’re confused, here are 50 common classroom procedures.

Build relationships with parents at the beginning of the school year. This helps develop trust and opens the lines of communication.

Skim for key vocabulary that seems important, is confusing, or otherwise ‘stands out’ and mark it in a separate color.

Is My School Ready? Strategies For Principals That Lead contributed by Jen Schwanke, Principal for Dublin City Schools For a

Technology / August 5, 2016 / New Teacher

Digital tools are versatile and serve many purposes. It just takes creativity, curiosity, and a little bit of a risk in trying something new.

Teaching / August 2, 2016 / New Teacher

One idea is each academic group comes to the teacher in groups of four to six students for direct instruction.

The better we know our students, and the more they know and trust that we know them, the more invested they become in their learning.

Students would show up saying they heard “the test was brutal” or didn’t do the homework because they ‘heard’ I didn’t collect it.