If you find yourself struggling with classroom management or looking to refresh your current plan. These are some great tips that will lead you to better classroom management. ClassDojo is an online website that allows students to earn points for developing pro-social skills. First, when I started using ClassDojo, the newness of the reward system […]
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Culturally relevant teaching is important. My definition of culturally responsive teaching as being attuned and acknowledging students diverse backgrounds. It also means educating them with the lens that their heritage, background and cultural assets are advantages and can enhance their education. I saw the importance of culturally relevant teaching with my work in urban schools.
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You’ve landed your first teaching job, Congratulations! These are some tips on how to prepare for your first teaching job so that you can start the school year off right. Your first inkling might be to decorate your classroom and come up with a theme for the school year. However, it’s a good idea to
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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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Differentiated instruction is meeting the needs of different types of learners. You can differentiate by intelligences, content, process or the product. When planning your lesson depending on your goal/objective, you can choose which way you would like to differentiate. The prerequisite for differentiation is that you know your students. You can get to know your
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Do you want to know the one method that has the greatest effect on your students’ achievement? Are you doing the most of the cognitive lift and not your students? Is it your goal to be a more effective teacher? Keep reading because you’ll learn the five teaching strategies you need to be effective. If
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After reading this blog post, you’ll learn how to master your craft as a teacher. Daily teaching can be stressful and unfulfilling; this is not usually talked about in an honest way. Teachers stay in survival mode for a numbers of years and never reach to the next level. It doesn’t have to be that
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