Exciting lesson ideas, book lists, videos, classroom strategies, and reproducibles in a daily blog by mentor teachers
With this post I end my blogging for the 2011-2012 school year. I’d like to thank you for visiting my page while on your quest to improve your classroom management and organization. So, let’s review. What did you learn? Here are some of the gems...
Get useful checklists to prepare for summer vacation and set up for success in the fall.
Have you noticed a new tab on the Scholastic Web site? It is labeled "Storia." Storia is a great application for parents to use with their children. It allows them to purchase books and then track their children’s reading progress. Of course, I...
In the past two weeks, my standard ticket reward system ballooned into a full-fledged classroom marketplace. See how I turned the resulting chaos into a series of economics teaching moments.
According to the authors of Quantum Teaching, the environment is a key component to learning. Every detail really counts. I like to say that a clean and organized room is an efficient, happy room. Read on for some quick tricks for sprucing up the...
In this post, I share helpful checklists for planning successful school field trips.
Learn some tricks to showing those ultra-engaging videos to students when you have limited Internet access or high security filters.
Tips on how to recapture and maintain the attention of the class.
One of my students' most memorable activities is a lock-in. This is essentially a giant sleepover in which students get to spend the night in the school with all of their friends. In this post you will find strategies for planning a successful...
See how I build small teams within the class to create an efficient and fun learning environment.
