Digital Citizenship 101
Have you heard? School districts around the country are going 1:1! Are you ready? Of course you are! The times of projecting powerpoint slides on the front board are over. Interactive boards are no longer the next new thing. “Put your phones away” is a saying considered unacceptable in some parts. You’ve made it through all of these movements. As times change, we must adjust. Contrary to popular beliefs, while the tools we use have changed, the way we deliver our instruction has not. [...]
It’s the Most Unproductive Time of the Year!
Depending on the calendar year, the time from Thanksgiving and Christmas Day can be between 27 and 33 days. There are still two weeks between now and the holiday break. As a teacher, you cannot afford to lose these days to distractions. How then do you keep students focused during the most wonderful, and unproductive, time of the year? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
