Get Great Gains from Your At Risk Students
How I got a Room Full of At-Risk Students to Crush the State Scores A Room Full of At-Risk Students At my current school, I teach remedial math for students […]
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Join Me on a Journey to Get Growth out of Every Student
I’d like to invite you on a journey with me… One that will help you reach every student in the room, regardless of their level or their needs. One that […]
Teacher Tip – Starting the Class Right
Would you believe that one of the most effective strategies that you can implement that will help ensure quality instruction and effective classroom management is to start the class correctly? […]
Teacher Time Saver Tip – Grading the Do Now
In what may be the greatest book on classroom management ever written, The First Days of School, Dr. Harry Wong stresses the importance of starting every class correctly. This means […]
Teacher Time-saver Hack – Grading Homework
Grading papers can be time consuming and exhausting. Not to mention that when it takes a long time to grade and return, that reviewing homework often loses its impact as […]
Regain Control of Your Classroom – the shakeup
I once had a class that was constantly talking when they weren’t supposed to. I would be teaching, they would talk. They were supposed to do an assignment, but they […]
Are We Focusing on Student Growth – A Checklist
Are you focusing on your students’ growth or are you emphasizing other factors that we educators sometimes tend to focus on? Ask yourself the following: When one student doesn’t pass […]
5 Concerns that Worry Math Teachers
1) Prerequisite Knowledge Often, math skills build on previously learned material. If a student lacks the required prerequisite knowledge to complete the task at hand, the teacher is left with […]
21 Excellent Articles on Classroom Management
Classroom Management can have the greatest impact on student success. Get this right, and everything else becomes easier. But if your classroom management is ineffective, everything else is much more […]
21 Ways to Make Money this Summer without getting a J.O.B
Being a teacher is a hard, but rewarding job. Of course, the summers off are a nice benefit, but many of us could use some extra income, and these vacation […]