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The Amazing Teacher Pledge – Promise #4 – Be My Students’ Source of Praise

The Amazing Teacher Pledge – Promise #4 – Be My Students’ Source of Praise

Hello again. I am encouraging new teachers and soon-to-be teachers to take the Amazing Teacher Pledge – a set of 10 promises that I believe all amazing teachers make.   To recap, here are the first three promises of the Amazing Teacher Pledge: 1. I promise to create amazing lesson plans. 2. I promise to […]

The Amazing Teacher Pledge – Promise #3 – Communicate with Parents

The Amazing Teacher Pledge – Promise #3 – Communicate with Parents

As you know, I have been encouraging new teachers and soon-to-be teachers to take the Amazing Teacher Pledge – a set of 10 promises that I believe all amazing teachers make. Here is the third promise of the Amazing Teacher Pledge. I promise to communicate with parents. Amazing teachers have some kind of communication mechanism […]

The Amazing Teacher Pledge – Promise #2 – Keep Learning

The Amazing Teacher Pledge – Promise #2 – Keep Learning

As I stated in the last post, I’m encouraging new teachers and soon-to-be teachers to take the Amazing Teacher Pledge – a set of 10 promises that I believe all amazing teachers make. These are promises that any teacher can make. It just takes a decision to do what’s best for kids. The first promise […]

10 Teacher Assumptions for a Successful Classroom

10 Teacher Assumptions for a Successful Classroom

Hello again, I want to share a lesson that I learned a long time ago. The students in my class are not all like the student I was at their age. I know this seems like a simple concept, but what I found was that I was making assumptions about my students based on the […]