Now I'm curious: How can a room have no corners?
Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire by Rafe Esquith is a popular read that fits your description.
It could be that men are more willing to self-promote?
I will say that to be a male teacher in elem. ed, you have to have a real passion for it. Countless people told me I was foolish for considering...
I assume you're too short if you kneel, right? I give out lots of hugs but am a taller man among third graders, so kneeling works for me.
I don't own a cell phone. BAM!! Do I win the thread?
I think it is a bad idea at the elem. level. The pros could be that it frees up class time to have discussions/work time/projects instead of...
This is foolish. I had to stop a child from darting into traffic once, and in my school, we've all been trained on proper (physical) restraint...
It's a guy thing. :whistle:
Along with the principal, yes, we place students into classes for the next year.
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper I'm seriously not sure I've ever seen a book with 500+ reviews still average 4.8+ stars on Amazon, but this book...
Beginning of the year 5th grade is very different from end of the year 5th grade in my experience. Most are still elem. kiddos in the fall; most...
I once told them, at the end of the day on an April Fools' Day, that their homework for that night was to read and memorize the entire dictionary....
Exactly. If any of those 5 notebooks were used on other students, then absolutely the kid should get another one without the parent having to buy it.
I would assume the kid just worded it clumsily. I could easily see the parent saying, "Ask Mrs. Smith if you can have a new spelling notebook,"...
That's correct. Schools are supposed to provide the essentials. We each get $200 for our classroom budget to buy those things ourselves.
Here in Michigan, it's actually state law that public schools be completely free, providing everything for the students. We do ask parents to...
Notebooks cost 10 cents during the summer sales. I always buy extra notebooks, folders, pencil top erasers, etc. for just such a moment as this....
My entire district got an account for every 2nd-6th grade kid. We love it! The two best elementary math sites to spend money on in my...
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