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January 21st, 2026|
Understanding the development of your students helps you become a stronger educator, because you can identify specific strategies and ways to help your students that are developmentally appropriate. There are many developmental theories present to explain our growth has humans over time, but this article will focus on just one: Erik Erikson’s eight stages of development.
November 19th, 2025|
As your semester approaches the holidays, you may find yourself balancing academic demands with the desire to create a warm and joyful classroom environment. As December approaches, it can be a magical, if not also a chaotic time, so here are some simple and meaningful ways to bring the cheer of the holiday to your students, and to yourself and your family!
September 18th, 2024|
Putting Student Discourse to Work in the Classroom by Model Teaching | September 18, 2024. What is Student Discourse, and How Does it Benefit Students? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines discourse as “a verbal interchange of ideas.” But put into an academic setting, student discourse is the interchange of ideas between students that is focused on academic content. It is students talking to each other in a structured manner, using academic language. Importantly, discourse is an exercise in enhancing critical thinking and reasoning and should be focused on discussions that encourage a deeper look at concepts, as opposed to [...]
August 1st, 2024|
Part 2: Strategies to RAMP up Instruction. Is the summer slide making your students' return to school this year a bit bumpy? If you’ve noticed that your students are struggling as they come back from summer break, you’re not alone! The "summer slide" can significantly impact their skills and motivation. This article, part 2, provides strategies to ramp up your support to help your students overcome the challenges of the summer slide.
June 19th, 2023|
Peer tutoring is an effective flexible grouping strategy that can be a terrific way to improve your instructional effectiveness, while also improving the sense of community, confidence, and leadership skills of your students. It is important to establish processes, provide support, and plan when choosing your tutor and tutee and it is important to consider several factors when deciding to use this strategy in your classroom. This blog post will provide you with an essential overview of several critical factors, concepts, and strategies to consider when considering peer tutoring for your students.
May 4th, 2023|
With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years (and especially in the past several months) in various industries, many in the education space are now wondering how this will affect the careers of K-12 teachers and educators. Many opinion articles have stated the potential for AI to replace teachers. However, we, as professional educators, could not disagree more! In this blog post, we will explore a few key reasons why teachers will not be replaced by AI technologies anytime soon.
October 26th, 2022|
In your classroom, you likely have identified specific problems impacting student behavior or performance that needs to be solved in a certain way. You might be utilizing a specific instructional method, assessment, classroom management strategy, or something else as part of your classroom routine to help address the issues you see. Or, you may begin utilizing something new in your classroom that can help make positive changes in your students. But, does it work? Is the selected approach the most effective for your students?
August 25th, 2022|
Icebreakers are activities that help students connect with one another in a new setting. It can help set the tone for a year of fun collaboration and allows students who may not have made many new connections to begin to feel comfortable with their classmates. In addition, combining movement with dialogue can help students mentally “branch out” to make new friendships within the classroom.
May 5th, 2022|
In a classroom context, positive affirmations are phrases and acknowledgments of positive aspects of a child’s personality, effort, behavior, or other characteristics. When affirmations are present in your classroom daily, it helps to set a positive tone within your classroom environment and enriches children’s perceptions of themselves. You may be most familiar with positive affirmations as a way for students to acknowledge aspects of themselves and use them as a mantra to help them continue to behave in a certain way. For example: “I am kind. I am smart. I am a hard worker. I am a helper. I am a leader.” Recited often, individuals may begin to have a healthier outlook on life, their character, and what they are capable of. The point of positive affirmations is to acknowledge yourself and others from a place of positivity and not criticism. This helps create motivated and happy children who value themselves, their work, and their peers.
September 12th, 2017|
STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING PARENT-TEACHER COMMUNICATION WITH A PHONE-CALL PLAN OF ACTION
Imagine This: You have a student in your classroom that consistently cannot or does not meet classroom expectations. You have tried implementing the right responses to her misbehaviors in class, and you have worked diligently to correct behavioral concerns so that she can be successful within your class. You have referred her to an administrator, and you have called her parents a few times. After your third phone call to her parents, her mother begins to defend her child’s behaviors, and comments that you never have anything nice to say about her child. Or, maybe her mother is simply exasperated with her child and is communicating her own frustration about her child to you. This negative response (often cultivated in families by phone calls bearing bad news) don’t do anything to support or help the child.
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