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Teaching Tip: Have a Ticket Out
Since creating this blog Karen and I have always used it either to put down our thoughts, help bring information to any readers that we have (and thank you by the way) and chronicle our lives events...
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Teaching Tip: Use Creative Writing
Like a lot of teachers out there I have difficulty getting students to remember the material that we have gone over. I use a variety of techniques and go over the material in a variety of ways, but...
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Teaching Tip: Positive and Negative Consequences
I work in an inner city middle school that has a student population that is roughly 99% free and reduced meals, and contains many first generation students so needless to say it can be a challenge. I...
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Teaching Tip: Reach Out to Breakthrough
If you want your students to like your material then you have to reach out to your students and reach them on their level. Living in a society of ‘what is in it for me’, teaching has become less of...
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Teaching Tip: Get Them to Believe in Themselves
One of the main reasons that I have been so successful in my classroom is that I set my bar high for my students, but at the same time show them that it is possible. Usually during the first week of...
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Teaching Tip: Motivate
I think one of the main things that separate bad teachers from good, and good teachers from the great ones is how motivated their students are. Being a relatively young teacher, having only stepped...
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Teaching Tip: Respect them enough to let them come to their own conclusions
One of the things that I pride myself in is to get my students to really think for themselves in my classroom. Now you might be thinking that is a pretty dumb statement because that is the whole...
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Teaching Tip: Be Genuine
One of things that I stress in my class is the truth, that I do not want my students to lie to me and I am not going to lie to them. This can come about in a variety of ways. Like if I promise them a...
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Teaching Tip: Use Movies the Right Way
Some children today seem to have a very tough time visualizing the story in their mind. I do not know if that is because so many of them have since a very young age have had a television/computer...
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Teaching Tip: Make Every Test Count
My students have to take tests constantly if it is not a chapter test that is coming up then it is a state mandated test. It seems like that is all we end up doing so by the end of the year with no...
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Teaching Tip: Gain Respect
Every teacher needs to be respected in their classroom, and in this day in age it just does not come with the territory. The day and age of children respecting their elders has come and gone. There...
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Teaching Tip: Develop Thick Skin
If you are a tender hearted person that takes every little comment personally then teaching might not be the profession for you. The reason I say this is because no matter where you go, what you see,...
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Teaching Tip: Good Assignments for Those Last Days of School
via For those of us teachers out there the last few weeks of school can be some of the most challenging days in the school year because after pushing testing all year, when the tests have been...
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Teaching Tip of the Week: Recharge the Batteries
As memorial weekend is upon us most schools have shut their doors for the summer and now is the time for us teachers to recharge the batteries for next year. I do not know about you, but for me I end...
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Teaching Tip: Sharpen the Saw
In this day and age it is very important for all teachers to sharpen the saw during the school year breaks as well as throughout the school year. As more and more people are becoming reliant on the...
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Teaching Tip: Prepare Now Save Time Later
Teaching Tip: Prepare Now Save Time Later I remember my time as a first year teacher many years ago spending hours every week working on lesson plans, reading material, and just trying to stay one step...
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Teaching Tip: Give Students a Reason to be There
Teaching Tip: Give Students a Reason to be There What do you do with students that are just not motivated to want to be at school? No matter what type of school you teach at, private, public or...
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Teaching Tip: It Can’t be About the Perks
Teaching Tip: It Can’t be About the Perks via If you truly want to be a more powerful teacher to your students, then it can’t be about the job security, vacation days, or any other “perk” of being a...
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Teacher Tip: You Have to Make it Interesting
Teacher Tip: You Have to Make it Interesting The best way to have good classroom management is to have an interesting class. If the kids could care less about what is going on inside the walls of your...
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Teaching Tip: Ask Yourself One Question
Teaching Tip: Ask Yourself One Question It seems that whenever I am in meetings or talking to other teachers one of the first things and last things to come up is testing. What can we do to improve...
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