A WANNABE TEACHER’S GUIDE
I am updating the blog as quickly as possible, but it doesn’t yet contain everything in A Wannabe Teacher’s Guide: Getting Hired, Having Fun & Staying Sane. My goal is to eventually get all...
I am updating the blog as quickly as possible, but it doesn’t yet contain everything in A Wannabe Teacher’s Guide: Getting Hired, Having Fun & Staying Sane. My goal is to eventually get all...
I’m sorry to say, if you are looking at your first year of teaching you are in for a double whammy. The first year of teaching is notoriously the most difficult year. Add to...
I’m dreading it and I bet you are too. We have to call the parents of the students who have not been completing their digital assignments while school is closed. It’s always helpful to...
On Marcy 11, the World Health Organization officially named COVID-19 a pandemic. Given the nature of this virus many teachers are asking what they can do to help prevent the spread of the virus...
You finally get the phone call offering you a position as a full time teacher! Now you need to come in to the central office building to do “onboarding” (or official hiring). You will...
This is the fifth and final post in a series on how to bring mindful moments into your classroom. Today we look at classroom yoga. Please see this post for the first step towards introducing mindful...
This is the fourth post in a series on how to bring mindful moments into your classroom and today we look at mindful coloring. Please see this post for the first step towards introducing mindful moments...
This is the third post in a series on how to bring mindful moments into your classroom. Please see this post for the first step towards introducing mindful moments (meditation) and this post for the second...
This is the second post in a series on how to bring mindful moments into your classroom. Please see this post for the first step towards introducing mindful moments. As I mentioned in the...
Let me preface by saying I am not a mindfulness expert. I do not have a special certification in mindful teaching, but I do have 14 years of experience teaching students who struggle with...