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4 High Quality Teaching Websites to Improve Your Curriculum & Instruction

If you’re spending hours and hours searching for teaching ideas and always come up short on quality then keep reading because you’ll come away with 4 high quality teaching websites to improve your curriculum and instruction. The first high quality teaching website is achievethecore.org. This website is wonderful because it focuses on giving teachers resources […]

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Reflective Questions to Close the School Year Srtrong

Reflective Questions To Close The School Year Strong

General / teachersimpacteducation

Once the school year comes to an end, it’s tempting to rush out the door and never look back. Before you do, these are some reflective questions to close the school year strong. The first reflective question to close the year strong is-What goals did you meet, not meet or almost meet? When you ask

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Four Stages of Teaching You Need to Know

Instructional Coaching, Professional Development / teachersimpacteducation

The four stages of teaching is something that teachers need to know. It’s important to know the stage of teaching you are in so that you can advance your career and become the best possible teacher for your students. 1. The first stage of teaching that you need to know about is the fantasy stage.

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How to work with your paraprofessional/Teacher Assistant

How to work with your Teacher’s Assistant

Professional Learning Communities / teachersimpacteducation

Learning how to work with your teacher’s assistant/paraprofessional can be one of the best ways to help your students improve. They play a critical role in supporting the achievement of students. The teacher’s relationship with their paraprofessional can be a model for students on how to work well with others. Here are a few tips

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3 Big Lessons To Know Before Becoming A Teacher

General / teachersimpacteducation

These are 3 big lessons to know before becoming a teacher. Before I began teaching, I may have had an idealized view of what my day, year and students would look like. Looking back, if I knew these three things, I would have been better prepared. 1. Students have severe social-emotional needs that as a

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How to Increase Student Ownership of Learning

Books / teachersimpacteducation

Students Taking Charge: Inside the Learner Active Technology Infused Classroom by Nancy Sulla is a book that helps teachers to increase student ownership of learning. These are some teaching lessons that can be used in the classroom to better your teaching practice and keep students as owners of their own learning. First, a felt need

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3 Must Knows to Effectively Teach Reading

Effective Teaching / teachersimpacteducation

Teaching elementary reading is one of the most rewarding parts of teaching. If you learn the skills and practices on how to teach reading then your students will be successful. These are a few things you must know to teach reading effectively. 1. Decoding Decoding is the ability to use letter sound relationships to pronounce

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5 Must Read Tips For Your Teaching Observation

General / teachersimpacteducation

These are five must read tips for your teaching observation to decrease your stress levels so that you can feel confident. 1. Be prepared as best as you can for your teaching observation, given the circumstances. Administrators will sometimes batch observations during the school year. Observations need to be completed so that teachers have enough

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Do I need an Instructional Coach?

Instructional Coaching, Professional Development / teachersimpacteducation

Some teachers have doubts and resistance as to why they need an instructional coach but it is one of the best decisions you can make to become the great teacher that is already within you. Elite athletes work with coaches to become the best in the world so having an instructional coach as an educator

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What You Need to Know about Teacher Learning

Professional Development / teachersimpacteducation

What you need to know about teacher learning is that if you are able to determine your teacher learning stage, you can make goals to move up the ladder to mastery. I first heard about this concept when I went to the NJEA teacher convention. I have used this model to assess myself and the

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