Easy Classroom Management Visual Aids for K-12 Students

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Imagine you are about to start a group activity with 28 students. You give verbal instructions. Three students raise their hands immediately. Two more start arguing about supplies. One gets up to sharpen a pencil that doesn’t need sharpening. By the time you finish answering questions, half the class has already done the wrong thing.  … Read more

How to Engage High School Students Who Don’t Want to Engage

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I’ve been in enough high school classrooms, both as a teacher and as a coach observing other teachers “long distance”, to know that “how to engage high school students” is not a theoretical question. It’s the thing that keeps you up on a Sunday night, the thing that makes you rethink an entire lesson plan … Read more

Financial Assistance Using Teaching Grants in K-12

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School budgets are stretched thinner than most taxpayers realize. A single classroom set of calculators can wipe out an entire department’s discretionary fund for the year. A class set of novels for a literature unit often comes out of the teacher’s own paycheck. I know this because I lived it. The natural reaction is frustration, … Read more

Searching for Teaching Resume Tips? Easy 21st-Century Ideas.

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I have read a lot of bad resumes. When I was hiring for my own business, I learned something painful. The most qualified candidates often wrote the most forgettable applications. They listed duties like they were filling out a tax form. They buried their wins under passive language. They lost opportunities to less experienced people … Read more

20 Engaging Experiential Learning Lesson Plans to Create

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After teachers learn about the benefits of hands-on learning, they almost immediately start searching for experiential learning lesson plans. While there are a lot of them out there, sometimes it seems as though the same few get recycled over and over again. Why not use this list to shake up a tired routine? What is experiential … Read more

Using Classroom Management Hand Signals for Behavior

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Before we talk about how to use classroom management hand signals, we need to talk about why so many teachers try them and then give up within two weeks. The reason isn’t that the strategy fails. It’s that most advice you find online treats hand signals like a simple hack: pick some signs, post a poster, and boom, silence. That might … Read more

Easy Student Engagement Tips for K-12 Classroom Success

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Searching for student engagement tips that will actually transform your classroom into what you have always envisioned can be daunting. You see strategies that make sense in theory, others that would “never” work with your kids, and honestly? It is scary to try something new when you are already exhausted, and the rest of the … Read more

K-12 Classroom Management Consequences that are Consistent

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I’ve spent a lot of nights lying awake thinking about consequences, as I’m sure you have as well. Not the kind you read about in classroom management books…the tidy hierarchies that look great on a free poster but fall apart the first time a 2nd grader throws scissors or a high school student refuses to take out … Read more

21st Century In Classroom Activities to Engage Your Students

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We all have our favorite ways to engage students in the classroom, but there is always room to find more in classroom activities that will get your students excited about learning. Whether you are a new or experienced teacher, there is no replacement for finding activities that your students will actually want to participate in. … Read more