I recently had a conversation with a teacher from another school who was telling me about the biggest obstacle to their school’s success – lack of collaboration among teachers. According to her, there are many teachers at her school who just don’t want to work together. Instead of sharing ideas on how […]
Again, I’ve been reading a book that my new principal gave me. His goal is to have the entire staff embrace the ideas found in it. Although I’m no longer a teacher, I thought it would be good to pull out some of the best ideas in the book and share them on SITC. […]
This was one of those techniques that I remember using when I taught Language Arts, but had abandoned when I went back to teaching my History classes. When I was teaching Language Arts, I was a stickler for having my students answer in complete sentences and with proper grammar. If a student just answered the […]
Hello again, As I stated in my previous post, I’m no longer a classroom teacher. I’m working at a new school in administration. When I met my new principal, he gave me a book that he wants the staff to embrace as part of his vision to prepare the students for college. It’s called, Teach […]