Category Archives: Management Tips
How to Lead a Small Group
Giving Peer Writing Feedback
Help for Classroom Assistants Leading Small Groups
Classroom helpers are an amazing resource. The extra hands, eyes and brain power lets students receive help sooner than when its one teacher and thirty students. Leading a small group to work on a skill, practice using a tool or studying a curriculum component. Here are a few suggestions to help a small group run… Read More »
Improving Teacher-Student Communication
Here are a few reminders when talking with a class of students. Use students names when calling on them. Mention the name first if you feel the student called on isn’t paying attention. Use positive language as well as polite manners (Please and thank you go a long way to creating good rapport.). Keep directions… Read More »
Cutting Down on Teacher Grading Tasks
Homework and student projects require hours of time to be ‘graded’. If you feel bogged down and buried in work, try these tweaks to lighten your load. Homework: 1. Set aside a few minutes each morning for students to Think-Pair-Share. Let them sit together and compare their completed homework. Allow then to make changes to… Read More »
Study Habit Reminders
Spring! Sunshine, Sports, Homework, Projects, Testing Help you kids organize their springtime. Here’s a list of study habits for ending the year with an up-tick: Use a weekly and monthly planner to organize school homework and projects as well as family and extra curricular and other activities. It’s not a good time of year to… Read More »
Motivating Students
The days of the carrot and the stick are long past. Modern classrooms look to self motivation as we seek to actively engage students in their personal educational goals. So what does that look like? demonstrating by sharing your personal goals for the classroom as well as for yourself as the teacher-leader setting classroom goals… Read More »
Engage your ‘Can Do’
Find joy every day. Your attitude and positive ways of engaging students will brighten the hours you spend with your class. Fill your classroom with positive energy. The site Big Life Journal provides growth mindset ideas and free resources, as well as purchasable materials. Subscribe for free! Display student work that shows each student’s best… Read More »
Metacognition and Math
The four parts remain the same across learning math concepts: Plan and Organize skim and preview tasks breakdown the parts decide how to proceed Self-Monitor check your progress troubleshoot problems ask for help when truly ‘stuck’ Self Reflect assess our strategies Think-Pair-Share-Compare with others Direct Our Own Learning know what we know know what we… Read More »