I love Will Smith's speech Running and Reading. I showed it to my HS kids last year as a bell ringer Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a...
I hadn't heard of this but I'm checking it out now. Behavior management is a major issue for my students. I'm wondering how well it will work with...
A lot of teachers in my school ask for donations of supplies like that. One word of caution: Our administration ended up establishing a rule...
I think it depends on your administration. I teach high school and my kids are always coming in hungry so I started selling granola bars and other...
I found myself picking and choosing from the techniques of WBT. I LOVE the class rules, because they cover all the basics, and have the two catch...
I found my kids were most interested in interpreting the poems themselves. We would read through the poem once straight through, again looking for...
I've been working at a high school for two years and I still get mistaken for a student. When I first started I was constantly being yelled at to...
You'd be surprised how much a high schooler may enjoy rewards you'd typically give to an elementary kid. I pulled out stickers once in a 9th grade...
Thanks, that's what I was thinking. I'll treat the first week as if it were the first week of school since for our class as a unit, it is. The...
I have a few students I've "adopted" over the years whom I check in on in class occassionally. I was checking on a boy the other day and the...
Like you said, it sounds like the student is looking for attention. Even if she acts like she doesn't want it from you, I've often found students...
I've just been hired as a 10th grade teacher, teaching three periods of Reading, one of Language Arts and one Pull-Out Support. I'm set the start...
