Cooking Up a Caring Classroom

…for specific topics. You’ll even find the ISBN number for each book to help you locate it! After you read each book to your class, check it off in the…

Top 20 Tips for Landing a Teaching Job

…week, I choose a few to feature on Facebook each day, where you’re invited to chime in with your advice. When I see a post that receives a large number

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…

Family Science Night: Hands-on, Minds-on Fun!

…hundred participants to over 500. The development of Family Science Night has flourished each year. As schools begin holding these exciting evenings of science, those organizing the event should remember…

Halting Back Talkers in Their Tracks!

…establish Rule 5, “Keep your dear teacher happy.” Step One For a minute or so, five times a day, rehearse the five classroom rules. You call out the rule number;…