Student Engagement = Student Success
Successful instruction demands the invested and active participation of both students and teachers. One of our primary goals as teachers is to avoid classrooms where students feel bored, dispassionate and effectively disengaged. A lack of student engagement is easy to see because we’ve all experienced it before. Doodling in notebooks, passing notes (or now texts) and the tried and true disengaging method of aimlessly staring out windows. As fellow educators could tell you, nothing is more deflating than a class of disinterested students. [...]
Top Ten Winter Lesson Plans
[wr_row][wr_column]Winter has come! With the warm weather officially behind us, it’s time look forward to the winter months and begin planning out lessons for the snowy, frigid days ahead. Below are ten unique lesson plans for students of all grades K thru 12. Covering a variety of topics, from science to social studies, this featured list will get any class moving once they get in from the cold! [...]
TeacherHUB – Thanksgiving – Family, Food, & Fun in Class
Thanksgiving marks the start of the holiday season! Getting to sit down with relatives for the biggest meal of the year (and having a four-day weekend) has students excited for the fourth Thursday in November. The classroom should stay exciting, too! [...]
A Teacher’s Perspective: Turning To-Do List into Organized Plans
Debra Vaughn started using Planbook Plus in it’s Beta stage in the Fall of 2015. She has become a Power User since then and has been inputting plans for a 5 year Robotics course she is developing for her district. We wanted to share her experience of planning ahead with Planbook Plus with you. I’ve been [...]
10 Reasons to Get Excited About Planbook Plus Master Planner
Love it or hate it, writing lesson plans is part of every teacher’s job. That’s true now more than ever, as schools work diligently to align their curricula to Common Core standards and evaluate teachers on a number of criteria — one of which is sure to be how well you craft a lesson and [...]
Summertime Lesson Planning
Individuals outside the realm of education joke about summers being the perfect reason to teach. Educator’s know that even though school may not be in session and teachers may not be in the classroom every day, their jobs are far from over. Once one school year ends, the planning for the next begins. Summertime presents an excellent opportunity to get a head start on updating lesson plans, reviewing areas to improve and organizing for the next year. Planbook Plus is the perfect tool to use to divide the workload through collaboration, enhance current plans and miss as little time in the sun as possible. [...]
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 [...]
Expanding the Plus: Introducing eLearning
Perhaps the most extensive addition to Planbook Plus since the initial release, the eLearning feature elevates Planbook Plus from a planning tool to an educational arsenal. With the addition of the Gradebook and Student Access features, the eLearning element positions Planbook Plus in a category all its own. With Master Planners now having access to thousands of [...]
7 Tips on How to Plan for Summer School
For some teachers, the summer break doesn’t necessarily mean a vacation from work. Many stay in the classrooms and focus on helping the students who need to enroll in summer school. If you are one of the teachers who is going to plan summer school curriculum this year, it’s important to be prepared and understand [...]
5 Things You Should do at the End of the School Year
The end of the school year is an exciting time — and not just for the students. As a teacher, you’re looking forward to three months away from the classroom, where you can focus on the year ahead and hone the new ideas that you have. In fact, you might even have a little bit of fun during your time away! But first, you need to finish what you started, and that’s why it’s important to make an extra effort during the last few weeks of the school year. Here’s five things you can do to end the year on a positive note and feel better prepared for the year to come. [...]