My suggestion is to start off with a color theme and add in more graphic thematic elements as you go. Takes some of the pressure off. Last year I...
Re the "I can't read" kids. I had a non-reader last year, but she still enjoyed looking at picture books. Later in the year, when she'd made a...
Pretty much exactly what OneBerry says. I greet them, tell them what group they're in, and have them start in on an inventory page. That gives me...
Here's what I did last year and I'm planning on going again this year. Each student had one of those zippered pencil pouches. Each student was...
Last year my 3rd graders had 20-25 minutes of silent reading time first thing in the morning. They could take AR tests during this time, and also...
(First of all, I apologize if this is in the wrong part of the forum... I tried to post in the surveys/research section, but got an error.) I'm...
This is my 9th year teaching but my first year in 3rd grade, and my first year in a self-contained classroom in a while (I was a support teacher,...
I'm trying ClassDojo this year. Students will be able to earn points and I'm going to have a catalog with different no-buy prizes, like no...
Yeah, the first day or so I'm focusing on routines, procedures, and community building. But because the CCSC really want kids to be able to have...
I'll be teaching a self-contained classroom for the first time in 6 years and this is the sort of stuff that makes me think "Yikes!" I won't be...
I second (or third?) Setting Limits. Dr. Mckenzie came to our school a couple years ago and he's got great things to say about not getting into...
I always swore that I would never do groups... I fought against it... rows all the way... and then last year I did groups for Project GLAD and it...
I would add, make an effort to really praise the kids who are doing the right thing. This isn't going to help with your real 'hard cases' who...
I use painters tape as well, works great.
In CA it's a minimum of 30 min/day.
I'm a support teacher, so I'll probably see about 100 kids all told during the day. The K-5 teachers will all be at 32 this year, though.
The rate in our district for most extra voluntary work is $40/hr, and that includes the afterschool program. (There's a couple instances when it's...
I'm with you on that. Luckily there is always a waiting list for getting into our ENCORE program (since it's not only an hour of tutoring but...
Well, the district and the state (i.e. taxpayers) fund a program in my district for low SES students, but our ENCORE program is kind of a mismatch...
Yes and yes ;) :confused: Maybe I'm trying to reinvent the wheel too much here. When I taught the afterschool program for 2nd graders last...
