Lesson Planning Tip: How to Create an Engaging Teaching Activity
No matter what subject or grade you teach, there comes a point when the subject matter of your lesson just isn’t all that appealing. Maybe it’s a detailed, nuts-and-bolts kind of lesson that students really need to master in order to move on to the fun stuff or maybe it’s just an area of the [...]
5 Classroom Activities that Will Help you Meet Any SLO (Yes, Really!)
If you’re a teacher, it’s no doubt very important to you that you help students meet the benchmarks for their grades and move successfully to the next. Only by deepening their understanding of math, literacy and other subjects can students successfully move on to secondary education, higher education and meaningful careers. One way in which [...]
How to Create a Lesson Plan That Any Substitute Teacher Can Follow
Getting your own planbook in order can be challenging enough. You want to craft engaging lessons that hit all the major points of your curriculum while still leaving time for fun and creativity. It can be exhausting. So once you have your long-range plans and your daily lessons in order, you definitely don’t want to [...]
Lesson Planning Tip: Plan How to End the Lesson
By the time a lesson’s end rolls around, you may be tempted to wrap up quickly and move on to the next activity or lunch. But even though you’ve already gotten through the heart of the material, it’s still crucial you wrap up the lesson with intention. That way you give students more of a [...]
13 Tips to Help Teachers Pass Their Evaluations with Flying Colors
If you’re like most teachers, you’re heavily invested in your teaching prowess, and want your district to value you for all you can do. Your evaluations are a great time to demonstrate your skills to an audience, but that means some serious prep work. Here are 13 tips to help you pass with flying colors. [...]
Planning for Change
With all of the dynamic changes in education over the last few years, planning has never been more crucial. The common core shift, paired with enhanced focus on teacher effectiveness has left educators in a unique position that requires calculated balance. In order for teachers to maintain or even increase student performance while introducing new methods of teaching, for both student and teacher, they must find a way to reduce that learning curve while meeting and exceeding expectations. Luckily, as quickly as education initiatives transform, so does the technology designed to help teachers achieve their goals more efficiently and in a fraction of the time. [...]
Lesson Planning Tip: Plan Alternative Activities
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! ~Robert Burns You don’t have to be an English teacher to relate to Robert Burns’ “tim’rous beastie” in his poem To a Mouse. Though you’re not likely to have a farmer come and [...]
Establishing Objectives for Your Lesson Plan
There are more than 3.1 million teachers working in the public school systems throughout the United States, and each one of those teachers is required to write dozens of lesson plans on a daily basis. Though this has been a job requirement of teachers for years, but recently the process of creating an effective lesson [...]