When I was first hired at my school back 16 years ago, I was told that there was a teacher dress code, which kind of suprised me, since at my previous school there wasn’t. Male teachers were to wear shirts and ties along with dress slacks or casual pants. Wearing jeans was frowned upon. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
