How to Get Organized and Keep the Joy in Teaching
…way too much to do and never enough time to do it all. Piles of papers stack up everywhere, with no time to file anything away properly, and the number…
…way too much to do and never enough time to do it all. Piles of papers stack up everywhere, with no time to file anything away properly, and the number…
…Intelligence Theory suggests that IQ is not one-dimensional and can’t be described by a single number. Dr. Gardner proposed that there are at least eight different types of intelligence, each…
…letters for yourself and 7 letters for the class. Write the class letters in huge blocks on the board with the number values clearly shown. Play against the class play…
…with my students, and I wasn’t very consistent in my approach. However, I’m a survivor and I was determined to do my best and stick it out. Everyone told me…
Imagine someone asked you to describe the best lesson you ever taught. Which lesson would you choose? What do you think made that lesson so awesome? Let me guess. It…
…the logic? Bring on the metric system! Every unit is based on tens which corresponds perfectly to our base ten number system. Unfortunately, I don’t think the United States will…
…lesson with conversation hearts! The focus of the lesson is on finding fractions of a number, and the final step is having students create their own fraction problems as shown…
Keeping kids motivated and on task at the end of the year is challenging at best, especially after state tests are over. Yet keeping kids motivated at this time of…
…keeping the numbers the same but placing the parentheses around different pairs of numbers like this: (5 + 3) x 2 = ? and 5 + (3 x 2) =…
…a word or number in plain text format. This opens up all kinds of possibilities, but the one I want to address is how QR codes can solve the answer…
…best classroom practices. However, please refrain from self-promotion or providing links to teaching products. Advice from Real Teachers I love reading all of the responses to each question, and it…
…interactive activity to the book. Ask your students to NUMBER their pages in order to be able to use their table of contents effectively. When Do I Use IN In…
