One of the most important skills any teacher should have is the ability to tell a story. You may laugh, but if you’re a language arts teacher or a history teacher, story-telling will make your classes so much more interesting. Math and science teachers don’t use story-telling as much, but if they can somehow incorporate […]
Teach a student to answer the phone. There will be those moments when you’re in the middle of a great lecture. The kids are on the edge of their seats. You’re just about to come to the main point of the lesson, when…the phone rings. I hate it when that happens. I learned early on […]
Today I want to plan the actual event. Maybe this should have been done earlier, but oh well. Here is what I have so far: Timeline: 7:45 a.m. I arrive at the school. 8:00 a.m. Volunteers arrive and begin set up. Set up stage Set up sound system Set up donation collection table Set up […]
This is a guest post by Pooky Hesmondhalgh from the Creative Education Blog and was first published here. Okay, don’t take it personally… I’m sure that kids don’t really hate your lessons… but if every now and then one or two kids seem disaffected then here are some common reasons why. These were all come […]
