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Student Teacher Question: What are suggestions to improve classroom discipline and management?
Great question and a pertinent issue to student teachers and classroom teachers, in general. Here’s my attempt to answering this question, but would love to hear from our global community additional suggestions/tips/advice. I’ve seen many teachers struggle with classroom management, and … Continue reading
Student Voice: Blow Up Your Practice with Teacher Feedback
This series is intended to give teachers new ways of improving their practice through practice-based feedback. Rarely in the K-12 system is student feedback intentionally sought and reflected upon as a way to improve teacher practice. Yet, students know effective teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Instruction, Teaching
Tagged exit slips, feedback, feedback on practice, gathering student feedback, practice-based feedback, sample exit slip, sample student survey, student exit slips, student feedback, student focus groups, student interviews, student surveys, teacher feedback
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Blow Up Your Practice with Teacher Feedback
“You are fine. None of the students complain about you.” This was my former principal’s evaluative feedback on my first year of teaching. I thought “Seriously? I am a first year teacher and this is the best feedback you can … Continue reading
Teachers Staying Relevant
by Elaine Hirsch Ever-changing federal, state, and district mandates and increased teacher accountability have forced many teachers to find new ways to adapt in today’s diverse classrooms. This is especially so for those who’ve spent any length of time away from … Continue reading
Free Learning Management Software (LMS) for Teachers!
Want a (or better) LMS systems for your class? I recommend Canvas – a free online software that has rich features around common teaching tasks – grading, communicating, calendaring, creating assignments, etc. Canvas has the potential to reshape how you organize, … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged feedback, learning management system, lms, teacher technology, Technology
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How To Adapt to an Unfamiliar Teaching Position
Teachers are a unique group with certain talents far beyond individuals in other professions. However, with all their knowledge and know-how, what happens when they’re uprooted from a well-known environment and placed in a world totally unlike their familiar surroundings? … Continue reading
Innovation is needed to shatter our textbook addiction – a 5.5 billion dollar market.
I posted an article on RoadtoTeaching’s Facebook page that reports some schools are embracing tablets – namely the iPad – in lieu of textbooks. These type of articles often pop up from time-t0-time. Frankly, it’s a shame this trend hasn’t gotten more … Continue reading
Posted in education policy
Tagged ipad, open source software, student ipad, Teaching, Technology
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Start of the School Year – Avoid Being Over Committed
It’s the beginning of the school year, and for many teachers this is their first year teaching. One of the biggest challenges new teachers face is finding balance between work and their personal lives. I recently spoke with a few … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Stress Management, Stress Management, Teaching
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Media says the job market is bad. Is it as bad as they say for the teacher job market?
Road to Teaching’s most popular page – Teacher Interview Questions – receives approximately 290,000 pageview a year. This is an incredible viewership, which made me wonder how our visitors interpret the current job market. Media reports the dire economic situation … Continue reading