Top 20 Tips for Landing a Teaching Job

…professional, dedicated and determined you are to teach. Remember one principal not only knows the other principals in their district, but often knows principals in several districts. Kathy Wagner: Also…

Host a Classroom Scrabble Tournament!

…on a whiteboard or showing a real Scrabble board with a document camera. It’s not exactly like the real board, but it’s close enough for an introduction. Draw out 7…

5 Ways to Help Students Become Word Collectors

…backpacks and noticed when people “cringed”. They loved it!   2. Model classroom discourse! Hearing and using rich language serves a number of purposes–from modeling sophisticated language to showing that…

Checking for Understanding with Exit Tickets

…behind it. Besides strategically planning a question that aligns with your learning goal, this method requires very little preparation after the initial setup. Paper Exit Tickets (and a Freebie!) Another…

Pumpkin Predictions Measurement Fun!

…in the column for the actual measurement. All team members assist as needed and check the measurement. Repeat the same steps with the remaining dimensions, allowing each person on the…

Poetry: A Common Core Dilemma

…and creating a CCSS-aligned lesson?” Instead, I decided to create a lesson based on reading it aloud for enjoyment and using it as a springboard for personal writing and reflection….