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The Iris Center – An Amazing Resource for Classroom Management and More

The Iris Center – An Amazing Resource for Classroom Management and More

Today I spent the day at my Alma Mater, Claremont Graduate University. They had a workshop for Master Teachers, to better prepare us for when we have student teachers in our classrooms next year. Today’s topic was classroom management. This seems to be the biggest problem that student teachers face in those early years. That’s […]

Making Vocabulary Practice Less Boring – What I Did Today

Making Vocabulary Practice Less Boring – What I Did Today

Today, I had to go over some key vocabulary terms in preparation for an upcoming test, but as you know, I hate boring lessons, and vocabulary activities can be boring sometimes – well , most of the time. So I was thinking of how I could make this lesson less boring, and here is what […]

My Top Ten Classroom Management Tips

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  Here are my Top Ten Classroom Management Tips. I teach 8th graders, so classroom management is something that I’ve had to work on if I wanted to survive. I hope these tips are helpful. 1. Give at least one warning. They’re kids. Kids aren’t perfect. I call the name of the student who is […]

Teacher: A Twenty-Four-Seven-Responsibility

Teacher: A Twenty-Four-Seven-Responsibility

I went to my son’s little league game yesterday. It was ridiculous.   The coach from the other team started complaining about some of the calls made by the umpire, and eventually the coach just lost it, and started screaming and yelling at the umpire right there in front of the team of 9 and […]