Another way to approach this kind of problem is to give the student a chance to either write their own story, or to copy word-for-word one of the...
For classroom management, we are using an amazing new book (Teaching Students of the 2020s) that is designed to help teachers with the...
Test scores are a terrible way to judge teaching skills. Low test scores are strongly associated with poverty, not teaching skills. So a...
They will want to form their own groups. I don't let them. If you let them choose their own groups, your socially isolated students could be not...
So true. Many students have come to feel failure as their comfort place. They need to see there's more choices.
Growth mindset might be on the way out. There is little support for it in the research literature. A recent meta look at the studies showed most...
My favorite is groups of 4 desks so I have them work in groups. I change these monthly or whenever a group is unproductive.
Holy Cow! So sorry you and your class have this situation. And the poor kid who likely lacks any friends or comfort. I would suggest you document...
I hope you feel better soon. Teaching is such a demanding job, that you get extra point for realizing you are better suited for something else...
So sad that AZ children will have amateurs teaching their children. Some of the shortage is due to the pandemic, some due to the lack of respect...
This kind of comparison makes no sense. Overall, test scores tend to drop the older the student regardless of what teachers do. Standardized tests...
The first district I worked in had a poorly run union and it soured me on union membership. The third district had a high quality, professional...
We had a teacher do this. He started taking sick days every Friday. He called in sick the night before and got a different sub each time — when...
There's no silver bullet and no one approach is going to work for every student. The OG approach was designed for students with learning...
I like the way you are teaching reading. I'd be skeptical when looking over Science of Reading material. For one thing, just knowing phonics does...
NC should be ashamed at the way they treat teachers and their children. They've even tried to pass laws that forbid becoming a career educator,...
It sounds like you are doing everything right, except maybe taking care of yourself. Teaching is a really hard job with huge personal rewards that...
This sounds like a nightmare. Time testing is not time teaching. You learn a lot more about your students by observation than all those skill...
The best strategy is to learn to write. I would advice you to study well-written essays and observe how they are constructed, then apply your...
I agree that you need to nip problems in the bud. As soon as you say, no talking, you need to find the first person to talk and say something. I...
