How To Transition Out Of Summer and Back To School
Change is always hard. Whether it’s your first year of teaching or your 50th, I think the transition from summer schedules back to the school day is always tough, and…
How to Create a Strong Classroom Community
As we all know, or should at this point have figured out, the classroom culture that we build as practitioners is paramount to our students’ overall success and…
Classroom Layout Ideas for Back to School
Stepping into your own classroom for the first time can be an incredibly daunting experience, but it doesn’t have to be. Look at your classroom as an empty canvas,…
How To Get The Most Out Of Student Teaching
You’ve completed all the requirements for becoming a teacher, except for student teaching. When you started college, this looked like such a far away, and maybe at…
Tips For Lesson Planning Better and Faster
I remember a student once asking me what teachers did during their free periods during school. When I told her that part of what we do was plan lessons, she remarked,…
Why Travel Will Make You A Better Teacher
Getting ready for the start of the school year can become expensive pretty quickly. Some schools have classroom funds that teachers can tap into to equip their…
Back To School Classroom Shopping and Organization
Getting ready for the start of the school year can become expensive pretty quickly. Some schools have classroom funds that teachers can tap into to equip their…