May 2009 - Posts
Parent volunteers in the classroom can be great resources for both students and teachers, but it’s important to make sure your volunteers have plenty of do so they feel like they’re helping and want to come back. If you’ll be accepting parents as classroom
Read More...
Guest post from Karen Schweitzer. Karen writes about online universities for OnlineColleges.net. Twitter can be a great resource–if you know how to use it. Here are 30 tips for teachers who want to learn how to use Twitter to network, teach, and share
Read More...
The results to my most recent Twitter poll ( what is your classroom management secret weapon? ) can be seen over at Miss Cal.Q.L8’s blog . Be sure to go check out 27 Classroom Management Secret Weapons . While you’re at it, subscribe to her blog and leave
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. As discussed last time, part of gaining respect from students comes from being respectful. The second element of earning the respect of your students
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. As we’re going through the transformation, one of the key things to remember is that you must remain respectful to your students. As I’ve written
Read More...
Respond either in the comments here, through email , or on Twitter .
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. One of the biggest difficulties that many teachers face is grasping the reality that treating students equally is often not even remotely fair.
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. When I was a new teacher, I had some really good classroom rules and expectations and consequences all lined up. It was good on paper. Unfortunately,
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. I took the day off from blogging yesterday because it was Mother’s Day and I play in a mariachi. If you don’t know what that means, I started playing
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. What a wild week this has been! I’m surprised by how much even going over these classroom management basics on here has impacted my teaching. When
Read More...
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy I gotta come clean. I’ve texted while driving. Quite a bit. I saw this video this morning thanks to DetentionSlip.org . I’ve Facebooked while driving. I’ve looked up maps while
Read More...
Do you teach economics? I challenge you to use this in your class. Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance On Just One Page Okay, it’s actually a 49-page ebook that explains the one page, but it is well worth a review. It is tragic
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. I hope that this series so far has been useful for some of you. I’m not getting an overwhelming amount of feedback specifically on the series,
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. Yesterday we looked at making phone calls and using parent pressure as a motivator for classroom management. Today, we’re going to go with a slightly
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. Face it, misbehavior has been around only slightly longer than behavior has been. As teachers, we are often expected to fill every possible role
Read More...
All right. This is completely off topic, but since today is Cinco de Mayo and since I have lived on the Texas-Mexico border for about five years now, I felt like it was an appropriate time to share with you this incredible salsa recipe that I learned
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. Let’s play a game I want you to think about your classes right now. Think about the four biggest trouble-makers on your roll sheet. Now imagine,
Read More...
This is an article in the Total Teacher Transformation series. Click here for a complete table of contents. Today’s lesson is simple , and yet profound . One of the most difficult concepts for me to grasp was one of the most important in my early days
Read More...
This is an ongoing series. Bookmark this page as a way of navigating your way around the series. Day 1 : Find a moment Day 2 : Find a mirror
Read More...
Congratulations First of all, I want to congratulate you on taking the first step of this journey toward becoming a great teacher ! I can’t even begin to describe for you the exciting possibilities that await you as you move through these lessons and
Read More...
As I suspected when I started this blog, there are a lot of teachers who don’t really have a strong grasp on how to be a great teacher. The number of emails and comments that I have gotten this year are a clear indication of that. When I take into account
Read More...
I’ve been thinking lately about trying to have each day be a sort of theme day. I don’t intend on posting every day (that’s not realistic for me at this time), but I would like for things to be a bit better aligned. So for instance, if I write a list
Read More...