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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9 Tips for a Greener, Eco-Friendly Classroom (Guest Post)
Image via Wikipedia Having an environmentally-friendly classroom will not only help your school save money on electricity costs, it will also help your students adopt a greener lifestyle. By educating young children or even teenagers on the importance of living “green,” they will hopefully pass on these lifelong skills to someone else as they grow…
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First Time in a Classroom? Try these Surefire Teaching Tips!
Image via Wikipedia Please welcome a special guest post from Bobbie Walker for today’s Teaching Tip Tuesday. There’s no doubting the fact that experience is the best teacher in any walk of life, and the only way to gain experience as a teacher is to start somewhere. We’re all beginners at some point of time…
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5 Word Study Strategies to Use in Your Classroom
1) Scrabble Nab-It I really like this variation of the famous Scrabble game. It is especially effective to use for the primary or junior classrooms since it doesn’t use a game board and the students don’t have to calculate scores. Each player gets a tile bag with letter tiles of that same colour. Unlike the…
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It Takes 5 Years To Become a Teacher
Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr As I started my fifth year of teaching, I felt a confidence I had never felt before. Something just clicked and I realized that I finally knew what I was doing. Up until that point, it felt like I had been treading water. I went in to the classroom…
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Teaching Tip – Take Some Time
Image via Wikipedia I have a cold and it has been draining me of pretty much all my energy. I took the day off yesterday, which for me is a rare thing. In my entire career I have only ever taken a handful of sick days. I felt like I had to come in today.…
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Teaching Tip – Share a Story
Cover of Coyote Sings to the Moon One of my all-time favourite picture books is Coyote Sings to the Moon by Thomas King and Johnny Wales. It is a delightful book that sounds great when read aloud. It tells the story of Old Woman and her animal friends who sing to the moon every night.…
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Teaching Tip – Get Organized
One thing I have learned from all my years of teaching is that it pays to be prepared. Believe it or not, I wasn’t always this organized. I always made sure that I photocopied any material or worksheets I needed well ahead of time. However, on one more than one occasion, I simply could not…
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Teaching Tip: Quieting Down a Rowdy Class (Guest Post)
Image via Wikipedia Elementary-aged children are easily excited and it can be difficult to quiet them down once something has really gotten them rambunctious. Once a distraction has set in and gotten everyone giggling, it’s definitely a challenge to get the class hunkered down into a productive task again. To help you out (and spare…
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Teaching Tip: Multi-Syllable Rhymes
Image via Wikipedia When people think of poets, they don’t often think of rappers, but Eminem gets a lot of attention for how he puts his words together. People who don’t even like rap, admire him for his skill. I know what you are thinking – Eminem in a Teaching Tip Tuesday post? – Has…
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Teaching Tip – Guided Reading
A good reading program is absolutely essential for your classroom. Without one, your students will not improve as readers. Having DEAR – Drop Everything And Read or SSR – Sustained Silent Reading where your students read quietly at their desks, does very little to help them become better readers. What you need is a guided…