Literary arguments are a staple in assessing a student’s knowledge of a piece of text as well as their ability to support their inferences with evidence pulled from the text. Check out our Free resource from our TpT store to help guide your students in writing the very best literary arguments.
Read MoreSo, you want to be a teacher? Here are some things you need to be aware of and consider as you make your career choice:
Read MoreWe love teaching our students various note taking strategies throughout the year. We even have some awesome graphic organizers that we sell on all the different types of note taking that we teach.
Read MoreSecondary traumatic stress (STS) is the emotional distress that arises when someone vicariously experiences the traumatic experiences of another individual. Sometimes this response is known as compassion fatigue.
Read MoreLet's look at another one of those often expressed pieces of jargon many in the educational world like to throw out: “If you don’t love teaching, get out before you cause harm to the children.” I recently read an awesome article by Elizabeth Dampf called “It's about Skillsets, Not Sainthood.” In the latest ASCD article Elizabeth Dampf shares the very familiar expectations posed by the teaching world. As teachers, it is expected that we love our jobs, love our schools, and love our students. If we don’t…why are we teachers?
Read MoreIf you google search anything about trauma and education, inevitably you will receive pages and pages about how to treat student trauma and how to provide support for the students experiencing trauma, but what about the teachers? Who is supporting us?
Read MoreAnother way to foster a collaborative classroom is to have your lessons be rooted in meaning. People are simply motivated to persist and achieve when they find value and meaning in what they do. One way to ensure meaning in your lessons is to give students a few choices.
Read MoreWe have said it before and we will say it again: good teaching does not involve rewards. Rewarding good behavior and punishing negative behaviors is not an effective way to get a class of students invested in learning. What does work? Building relationships.
Read MoreOur SEL lessons focus on the five SEL strategies: relationship skills, responsible decision making, self-awareness, self-management, and social awareness.
Read MoreAll in all, leverage students’ strengths by creating meaningful group work activities to teach both academic and SEL skills necessary for the future job market, whatever that may look like in the next decade.
Read MoreAlways on the lookout for books to add to my classroom library shelves, I think this year especially has been a banner year for great books that I am sure will appeal to my students. Rising to the top for me, these are My Top 10 Middle School Books for 2022
Read MoreAnother step in fostering a classroom that is collaborative is to directly teach students how to be dependable.
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