Teaching
As an educator who loves to share tips for teachers both inside and outside the classroom, you can follow this page to find all my education-related posts. You will find tips, tricks, lesson plans, inspiration, and more.
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Create Radio Plays in Your Classroom
This is one of my favourite activities to do in the classroom. The first thing I do is introduce my students to the genre of Old Time Radio. I want them to understand that before television and movies, we could listen to all sorts of programs on the radio. I share with them some of…
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Long Range Plan Template
I am in the process of writing my Long Range Plan for the new school year. I divide the document up into 5 sections. 1. Affective Goals I want my students to learn a lot more than the curriculum. As such, my three goals for this section have not changed over the past several years.…
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Developing Integrity in Our Students – Teaching Tip Tuesday
I want to develop integrity in my students. I think it is the most important thing that we can do as teachers. To that end, I have designed large banners that are proudly displayed in my classroom. Across the front of my room, I have a banner that reads . . . It is a…
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Classroom Management Books Worth Reading
With All Due Respect: Keys for Building Effective School Discipline by Ronald G. Morrish This book has some great advice for both beginning and experienced teachers. Here are some of the key passages I highlighted and notes I took as I read these two books. Shared Rewards “Whenever possible, use ‘shared’ rewards. Rather than giving…
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Juliet Lives – A Play Written by My Students
Romeo and Juliet (Claire Danes and Leonardo Di I worked with a group of students in my class to write and produce a short dramatic work. We were brainstorming ideas and one of my students suggested doing a version of Much Ado About Nothing. I thought that was a great idea but the rest of…
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Summer’s Gone Lesson Plan
“Summer” by Buffalo Tom is a great song to use in the classroom at the start of the school year. It’s a song that always make me sad that summer is coming to an end. I play it every Labour Day weekend as I prepare to go back to school. This year, I used the song…
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Using Classroom Rules to Correct Student Misbehaviour
By ChinaFlag [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons “One of the things that I learned this year (teaching grade 6 for the first time) is that when a student is misbehaving, it’s sometimes hard not to get into a power struggle. If you have clear and concise rules, you’re able to identify their behaviour as breaking…
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Teaching Tip – Standardized Testing
Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to…
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Please Help Me Find This Book – Band Fundamentals in Easy Steps
I hope you can help me out here. I am looking for a book that is out-of-print and very hard to find. It’s an excellent resource that I want to use next year in my teaching practice. Band Fundamentals in Easy Steps: A Method for Beginning Class or Individual Instruction by Maurice D. Taylor I…
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Reflect Now to Improve Your Teaching Next Year
The school year comes to a close next week and I am already thinking about next year. Why? This is the best time to reflect on our teaching practice. We can look closely at the things that went right, what went wrong, and what we can improve on for the new school year. I had…