Image via Wikipedia I made a conscious decision to cut down on the amount of material that I photocopy for my classroom. It was just way too easy to take advantage of the shiny hi-tech device completely at my beck and call. I made so many copies the first few years of my career that…

Image via Wikipedia Today I am going to recycle an old tip for you. I simply don’t have the energy to write a new one for you this week. I’m kind of tied up with the screenplay I am writing for this month’s Script Frenzy Challenge. So today I’d like to share with you an excellent…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…