Has anyone found a good way to communicate with parents how to get the new, digital boxtops "turned in" to school?" We've put notes in the...
Congrats on the position! Here's some quick answers. 1--clear procedures, activities, and expectations create comfort. When they walk in the...
I'd start with google docs--easy turn in, accountability (you can check who edited what when, so there's no copying someone else's work), and easy...
Nobody has any experience until they get experience. There should be some classroom experiences attached to the program you get your certificate...
The program that we replaced with TieNet was way worse about dropping pages, sometimes even switching pages from one student's IEP to another's if...
If my district posts it, it's because they couldn't find someone in-district to teach it.
Yeah, the "all the information on the slide" approach was NEVER right, even though that was the default. I think that mode maybe comes from...
Or an idea that came to me over lunch--if you come from an agricultural state, you could name them after your state's top 6 exports. Mix a little...
There are probably 6 different carnivorous plants (venus fly trap, pitcher plant, sun dew...). That would be fun. You could limit it to state...
I teach a self-contained ASD classroom at the middle school level in MI. I've had anywhere from 4-6 students, with 1-2 aides. Next year, I may...
I think that the capital-T "They" will use the lack of teachers to push forward with on-line "education", with a para-pro in a room with 40 kids...
This. The parents are welcome to teach their children whatever they want. However, any lesson that includes punching someone is not a part of...
Build a classroom management system with natural consequences. Invented punishments for transgressions are hard to keep track of, hard to...
I know the parents of my students (ASD) are desperate for a service like this (although our requirements for summer programming are very strict,...
"Evaluations" can mean a lot of different things. Depending on how loosey-goosey your P is, she may have "observed" you lining your kids up in...
I'm at a middle school, and I have general ed peers come in during our "advisory" period (formerly "silent reading", and before that, "homeroom")....
As long as you don't look or act too close to retirement age, and as long as you're up-to-date on the state of the art, experience is a good...
I was ready to quit a few years ago, and told myself that it was because of job-related stress. Once I got put on the tiniest bit of mental...
I think you could share the whole story, including your history with the girls, with the administration. It's so easy to see this story going...
Interesting question. For those of us who chose teaching as a first career, we were able to putter around taking basic ed courses for a year or...
