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Dorit Sasson - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Dorit Sasson is ESL and English teacher, freelance writer and a teacher mentor and trainer.
She is the founder and director of the New Teacher Resource Center, an online resource center that provides strategies and tips for new teachers. teachers to be and veteran teachers.
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- New Teacher Tips in Developing an ESL Reading Program
[Reference-and-Education] An ESL teacher needs an ESL 'bank' of reading tips, ideas to teach a child to read. Here are a few tips.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Teach ESL Students Vocabulary in Context
[Reference-and-Education] There are three principles involved in teaching and learning vocabulary in context: practice, understand, and infer (going beyond the text). ESL vocabulary activities, read alouds and games are all art of this vocabulary learning As a general rule of thumb, vocabulary can be taught inductively (through some process of discovery) or deductively (example: providing a picture - 'this is a _________' ) For young ESL learners, this is pretty hard to do, but when vocabulary is taught routinely and creatively, it can be a fun and enriching experience. Another general rule of thumb is that the discovery...
- Tips and Strategies For Improving Your ESL Lesson Plans
[Reference-and-Education] At least a few times during the school year, you will hear yourself or other teachers talk about how the lesson for your English language learners didn't go well. For ESL activities to be largely successful, a teacher needs to find ways to motivate the students since some students may not love learning English as much as you enjoy teaching it.
- How Teachers Can Reinforce Language Skills in an ESL Program
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Oral instruction helps teachers reinforce language skills for young ELLs that are in question in a general education or ESL group. Many teachers rely on oral instruction as a consistent method for teaching vocabulary and early reading skills. But as soon as teachers see evidence that ELLs can read, then the oral level of instruction mysteriously disappears.
- Have a Positive Support Plan - Tips on Using Spontaneous Ways to Motivate Your Students
[Reference-and-Education] It is easier to respond to misbehavior than to relate to what your students have done well. Students need to see the positive, more human side to teaching.
- How to Teach Rules and Procedures
[Reference-and-Education] Teaching rules and procedures is a big part of classroom organization. Deciding on effective rules and procedures is important in establishing teacher credibility. An effective classroom management plan consists of curbing the types of disruptive behavior and promoting positive behavior.
- New Teacher Tips - How a Teacher-Mentor Can Help in Your First Year of Teaching
[Reference-and-Education] How can teacher mentors help a new teacher? New teachers in their first year need a teacher mentor to help guide and support him or her in this overwhelming year.
- How and What to Plan - Advice and Ideas to Help You With Lesson Planning
[Reference-and-Education] It is difficult to give advice about teaching, because it is so individual, so dependent on your particular school, students, personality and experience. Lesson preparation on the other hand, is the first obvious place to start investing all your hard work as a teacher in order for it to have best effect.
- New Teacher Tips - Build Positive Relationships With Students Before Discipline Problems Begin
[Reference-and-Education] Build a positive relationship with your students is part of managing a classroom. When students don't feel a teacher cares enough about them, the madness of managing discipline problems begins. Find out how you can take control of the classroom!
- How to Make Healthy Kosher Salads - Quick Easy Salad Recipes For Shabbat and Jewish Holidays
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] There's nothing like a quick easy to prepare salad with Kosher salad ingredients to welcome in the Shabbat. These salad recipes contain unique salad ingredients, and they are a yummy addition to the Shabbat meal and the Jewish holidays. In fact, they can also be used for any day of the week.
- Easy and Quick Pumpkin Dinner Recipes - Roasted Dinner Dishes and Appetizers
[Food-and-Drink:Recipes] Pumpkin is an important source of vitamins and minerals. These tasty pumpkin dinner recipes provide a high fiber source and more food intake for the same calorie count.
- Read-Alouds As Building Blocks of Early Literacy - How Caregivers Can Foster Early Reading Skills
[Reference-and-Education] The key to nurturing read-aloud time begins not only in developing a sound routine for reading aloud, but also by structuring an ideal period of sustained, uninterrupted reading time. Start with twenty minutes and build reading time in increments of five to ten minutes as often as possible.
- Decoding and Phonemic Instruction Helps Build Good Reading Skills
[Reference-and-Education] Teaching decoding explicitly is necessary for building good reading skills. Once students can map sounds with syllables, they are ready to map whole words to sounds. Before students are expected to do this, they need to know syllabication and its frequent irregularities.
- Effective Meditative Practices Help With Personal Goal Setting
[Health-and-Fitness:Meditation] Visualization is a key element to finding self-fulfillment by discovering first one's emotional and spiritual balance. When done effectively, visualization techniques guide in the process of setting one's personal goals.
- Teaching Workshops, Online Teachers Teaching
[Reference-and-Education] The US Department of Education offers teacher workshops for all types of teachers. Register for the summer teaching workshops and important updates.
- Using Diagnostic Tests to Plan Lessons
[Reference-and-Education] Diagnostic tests are an important early intervention technique that helps with lesson planning for struggling readers. How do you relate to using diagnostic tests in your classroom?
- How to Use Read-Alouds in Elementary School
[Reference-and-Education] More primary school teachers are using read-alouds to teach reading. Read-alouds also provide a springboard for oral instruction. How are you using read alouds?
- Using Feng Shui to Focus on Your Goals
[Home-Improvement:Feng-Shui] Feng Shui has remained a philosophy and can be used in any culture and alongside any belief system. Feng Shui has the capacity to bring about change using an old Chinese formula which determines the rising and falling energy in a house or with an individual's life.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Use Correct Classroom Color Choices
[Reference-and-Education] Aside from it's symbolic meaning, the color of a classroom can affect students and their learning. Understand some of the research.
- Teacher Sabbaticals - The Pros of Taking a Leave of Absence From Teaching
[Reference-and-Education] It is important to avoid teacher burnout early on. A teacher sabbatical is an effective way to recharge your batteries.
- ESL Summer Programs - Teaching Reading to ESL Students
[Reference-and-Education] Raising literacy levels for the ESL teacher today seems to be a challenging feat for ESL teachers in terms of learning the ropes on how to be a good teacher as well as how an ESL student can be a good reader. One way therefore to start the school year right is to pursue professional training and development with ESL summer programs.
- New Teacher Support Shopping Guide
[Reference-and-Education] Are you already underway with preparations for your new teaching job? New teacher support begins with a few teacher friendly resources for beginning the school year.
- Teacher Salaries by State - Finding a Good Beginning Teacher Salary
[Reference-and-Education] It is possible to live on a beginning teacher salary. Here are some tips for how to evaluate what is a good beginning teacher salary.
- New Teacher Tips - Using Songs to Motivate ESL Students
[Reference-and-Education] Teaching songs is a wonderful way to learn ESL. With a few simple lesson plan ideas, you might have the answer regarding how to motivate your students.
- How New Teachers Tackle the Stress of Teaching With the Aid of Teacher Mentors
[Reference-and-Education] It is not so easy to become organized in your thoughts and make a decision to continue to teach especially if you had a difficult year. Teacher mentors can help.
- Lesson Planning Tips - How to Teach Students About Natural Disasters
[Reference-and-Education] In light of hurricane Katrian and the impending hurricane season, teaching about natural disasters is just as important as natural disaster recovery and aid. In most cases, the government provides assistance when a natural disaster strikes. However, it is often volunteer relief organizations that come to the aid of the community, helping natural disaster victims in many ways.
- Classroom Management Tips For the New Substitute Teacher
[Reference-and-Education] Once a substitute teacher enters the classroom, teaching can be very stressful. Here are some classroom management tips to help the new substitute teacher not loose her or his cool in the classroom.
- What Training and Certification Do Pre-Service Teachers Need?
[Reference-and-Education:College-University] Becoming certified is the first thing that most schools and employers look for when hiring a new teacher. Learn all about the certification and training process.
- New Teacher Tips on Implementing High School Research Projects
[Reference-and-Education] Projects come under the framework of learning known as alternative assessment. Research projects are valuable and can teach students different skills than they might learn from lessons that end with traditional testing. Class time should be spent on explaining the project schedule, the work involved, the topic itself, and the project evaluation or rubrics.
- Post Reading Activities - How Teachers Can End a Lesson Effectively
[Reference-and-Education] What students do after the main learning task can be just as important as what they do before and during the process of learning. Post-reading activities serve several purposes.
- Using Classroom Management Resources to Improve Your Teaching
[Reference-and-Education] Classroom management refers to actions taken to create and maintain order in the classroom that enable instruction to take place. There are several important ways to use current research, case studies, books, journals and articles to improve your teaching.
- New Teacher Tips - Substitute Teacher Training
[Reference-and-Education] Tips, resources, and suggestions to help with training as a substitute teacher can make the difference between a successful and unsuccessful substitute teaching experience. Here are some resources and tips to support the substitute teacher.
- Tips on Pursuing a Teacher Degree Online
[Reference-and-Education:Online-Education] Earn your degree with your computer. Today there are programs, classes, and teaching certificates available online.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Work With Lower Performing Students
[Reference-and-Education] Lower performing students come in all sizes and shapes. Sometimes kids come from borderline special education, other children have learning disabilities or behavior problems and some just hate the subject because of negative learning experiences.
- Bullying Behavior in Schools - Teacher Tips on How to Deal With Child Bullying
[Reference-and-Education] As a new teacher learning how to deal with bullying behavior in the classroom for the first time, it is crucial to have bullying lessons, especially due to the nature of rising violence in schools. These theme lesson plans will give the new teacher more confidence in how to deal with this not so easy topic.
- New Teacher Tips on Giving Homework to Students
[Reference-and-Education] Giving homework to students is one of the more confusing issues in the first year of teaching. Here are homework issues and some possible solutions.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Teach Reading Strategies
[Reference-and-Education] When reading comprehension breaks down, ESL/EFL students need to find ways to repair their understanding. This is where the importance of knowing how to teach reading strategies come in, so as to facilitate the reading process and give students a clear sense of what they are reading.
- Learning Management and Teacher Training Resources Support New Teachers
[Reference-and-Education] Applying the educational theories from journals and articles on classroom management research can help build learning management systems. This can help improve the general learning atmosphere in the class and aid the teacher with tools and strategies.
- New Teacher Tips - Improving ESL Reading Skills
[Reference-and-Education] This article focuses on prior knowledge which is activated even before learners start reading the text, as part of Pre-Reading Activities. Pre-reading activities get students ready to read a text.
- Teacher Friendly Tips For Managing Classwork in Class and at Home
[Reference-and-Education] Teacher organization is an inevitable part of the new teacher's ongoing routine both at home and in the classroom. It has practical implications for how to regain control of clutter as well as how to manage student work especially when you are not a terribly organized person. In this short article, you will receive ideas and tips for managing student work both in the classroom and at home without having to buy an entire new line of teacher resources.
- New Teacher Tips on Cheating in the Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] How clear is the code of cheating to your students? What can you do about it?
- Teaching Tips and Ideas For Cooperative Learning and Group Work
[Reference-and-Education] A new teacher starting group work for the first time, might run into the main problems of discipline and a noisy lesson. After all, it isn't just your typical frontal lesson. So, if you're still not convinced about the benefits of group work, consider first the following...
- Tips and Strategies For Decoding Words in Early Literacy Lessons
[Reference-and-Education] ELLs and especially those at-risk readers and decoders typically struggle with varying degrees with sound-letter correspondences, especially with those that are not native to the sounds and characters of their own language. Students need both a direct and explicit instruction with appropriately matching decoding activities to help facilitate the process.
- Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Lesson Plans
[Reference-and-Education] Phonemic and phonological research has shown the benefits of using phonological and phonemic awareness activities at the very early stages of reading. Every elementary school teacher needs a bank of phonological and phonemic awareness activities to help facilitate with the process of reading instruction by pinpointing the difficulties of acquiring sound-letter correspondences.
- 5 New Teacher Tips For Bonding With New Colleagues
[Reference-and-Education] It is not practical for any new teacher to work in isolation. New teachers who do not feel nurtured in their school environment, are usually to first to consider the prospect of leaving their teaching positions.
- What Our Jewish Grandparents Can Teach Us - Soup Memories
[Home-and-Family] What good is writing about our Jewish grandparents without at least some nominal discussion or some reference to food? Since we are approaching the Jewish New Year, I recently had a craving for matzo ball soup, the same kind my grandmother used to make for me.
- The Light of A Jewish Birthday
[News-and-Society:Religion] Celebrating a Jewish birthday provides Jewish people with many teachings and life lessons. Applying these lessons to our real world understanding can make the difference in how we see how life's mission of purpose.
- American Idol and Jewish History
[News-and-Society:Religion] Yesterday I got to thinking what could possibly be a common denominator between the favorite TV show American Idol and figures of Jewish history? For the modern day Jew, there are more connections than one thinks.
- The Meaning of the Jewish New Year - Symbolism, History and Traditions of Rosh Hashana
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Rosh Hashana, or the Jewish new year is an important day of the Jewish calender. The Jewish New Year is a holiday dedicated to reflection, prayer and penitence.
- Teaching ESL Students How to Write an Essay
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Explain to your students that writing an introductory paragraph is dependent on how well they: Gain the reader's interest by using one of several common methods of introduction. Present the thesis statement. The thesis statement expresses the central point of an essay, like a topic sentence expresses the main idea of a paragraph.
- Some Thoughts on Teaching Online Classes
[Reference-and-Education:Online-Education] I have to say there is something uniquely different about online teaching especially teaching online college programs. For two years, I participated in an in-service online teaching course which included preparing lessons that could be done online or offline.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Use Seating Charts
[Reference-and-Education] As a new teacher, I wasn't aware of the little elements of classroom organization and how they could affect my lessons. I just wanted to go into the class and teach right away without wasting any time.
- Books For the New Teacher
[Reference-and-Education] What books have you read lately that you can recommend for summer list of books for teachers? Now that I am in the midst of planning my sabbatical, I am not as driven to prepare my summer reading list. However, if I could, I would reread these again, simply for the easy reading styles and absorbing story lines.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Use Beginning Classroom Procedures
[Reference-and-Education] How should teachers use beginning classroom procedures for the first days of school? Here are some new teacher tips to help you get started.
- New Teacher Tips on Back to School Preparations
[Reference-and-Education] The real trick in lesson planning for the first day of school is not to overplan and to keep the tone serious for learning. This means sticking to a routine, reinforcing rules and procedures and even spending the first five or ten minutes reintroducing them in class. Stick to the basics, avoid too much creativity. What students need right now is a consistent routine that will easily settle them into the school year.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Use First Day of School Worksheets
[Reference-and-Education] In my first year of teaching and for many years that followed, I spent an inordinate amount of time preparing my own first day of school handouts. I thought it was the "hook" that students needed. I thought that teacher dominated discourse represented learning. But it really wasn't. It was actually a cover up for understanding the true purpose of what a good handout actually is all about.
- New Teacher Tips - Why New Teachers Need Mentors
[Reference-and-Education] All new teachers need mentors. Even if your new school doesn't assign you one (which is a red flag) be prepared to seek a mentor out on your own. It's the only way to really survive in your first year of teaching.
- Lesson Planning Tips For New Teachers
[Reference-and-Education] Sometimes a lesson just does not go the way we anticipate it: the up and down nature of students, the students aren't ready, not enough skill preparation, learning strategies, the level of the text or textbook, the time of the day and so on. It could very well be your lesson plan needs thinking through.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Use Lesson Planning Successfully
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers often stick to the structure of a lesson. But a successful lesson depends on so much more than structure.
- New Teacher Tips - 10 Ways on How to Plan a Student Centered Lesson
[Reference-and-Education] You hear snippets of student conversation in the hallways or perhaps during lessons. You chuckle with them or to yourself. Maybe you even make a comment to them that's agreeable. No doubt - this kind of scenario strengthens the teacher-student relationship and class dynamics. But in my mind, the real connection to students comes with learning. As Anthony Cody says, "put the student in the driver's seat." I like that metaphor because it implies many positive things regarding how students can take control over the learning process.
- Get Their Attention in 5 Easy Steps - Tips For Teaching Reluctant Readers and ESL Students
[Reference-and-Education] Many of my reluctant ESL students became passive when faced with a reading text. Simplifying the texts and giving them a choice in assignments did not help with motivating them. So here are 5 easy tips you can do to help with that problem.
- 7 Tips on How New Teachers Can Successfully Manage a Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] How are you starting the school year? Do you have a specific classroom management plan? To successfully manage a classroom, new teachers need to know how to work with their feelings, assertiveness, and reactions in times of challenging classroom situations.
- Students Progress With Work Cards in a Mixed Ability Class
[Reference-and-Education] Work cards and performance forms help struggling students in a mixed ability class close their gaps in reading. Work cards enhance their pace, ability and interest.
- Tips and Tricks on How to Build Reading Proficiency Before School-Age
[Reference-and-Education] Becoming a successful reader in school begins with good reading habits at home. These reading habits begin with building a listening vocabulary.
- Tips on How to Motivate Your English Language Learners to Study ESL
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] What is this elusive thing called motivation? New Teachers - Here are some tips on how you should motivate your students.
- New Teachers - Develop an Effective Classroom Management Plan
[Reference-and-Education] Every new teacher needs a classroom management plan that will effectively engage his students. A classroom management plan contains those rules and procedures that are essential for running and managing the classroom. An effective management plan MUST contain a few important things before any teaching can take place.
- Tips on How to Make the Most of a Family Vacation
[Travel-and-Leisure] Family vacations are supposed to be a time to break a daily routine and have some quality time with your loved ones. In this article, we'll focus on several ideas for lowering the stress level and ways and tips for getting it simple and much more enjoyable.
- What's the Trick to Teaching Vocabulary to English Language Learners?
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Teachers of ELLs need to constantly ensure that they are enforcing the reading skills of a read-aloud or any reading text by teaching new words. To help ELLs succeed with learning new words, teachers should focus on the four stages of teaching and acquisition.
- Put Some Pizazz in Your Read-Alouds - 6 Easy Tips on Creating a Successful Read-Aloud Experience
[Reference-and-Education] Creating an engaging read-aloud experience is essential for vocabulary building, early reading skills, and stimulating the imagination. In this article, you'll find seven easy tips on how you can create a successful read-aloud experience that your students and children will love.
- Classroom Management Tools For Teaching Rules and Procedures
[Reference-and-Education] All teachers have rules and procedures but effective classroom managers decide in advance how they want their students to behave. Be a motivator!
- Ideas For Taking Classroom Attendance
[Reference-and-Education] The traditional procedure of taking attendance at the start of the lesson may help a new teacher create a sense of routine and structure, but it isn't the best way to start the class. New teachers need a good strategy for taking attendance. Calling out names at the start of class isn't effective. Other methods keep students involved, focused and on task.
- Methods For Administering a Test - Tips For Dealing With Test Anxiety
[Reference-and-Education] Is there no end for test anxiety? You might find frustrated students waiting for their grades. But there is a way to all this in terms of using the right methods for administering a test.
- Classroom Organization - Guidelines For Teaching Rules and Procedures
[Reference-and-Education] When students know what you expect from them, it is easier to teach your material. It's not too late to reconsider your rules and procedures.
- Journal Writing For Teachers Helps Relieve Stress and Build a Teacher Community
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers fresh out of teacher's college often feel isolated in school. Many end up quitting teaching due to a lack of proper support. Mentor teachers, as willing as they are, try to make the time to observe a new teacher. If you find however, you and your mentor's schedules coincide, there is always the option of teacher journals and diaries.
- New Teacher Tips - Building a Classroom Management Plan That Speaks to Students
[Reference-and-Education] After introducing a few rules during the first week of school, plan on reinforcing them for the next few months to come. I tend to stick to the 90% reviewing classroom procedures and rules and 10% amount of teaching. By procedures, I am referring to also study skills such as how to present and keep their work, pair and group work and test procedures.
- What Teachers Need to Know About Educational Freelance Writing
[Reference-and-Education] It wasn't until I was able to establish my authority as a classroom teacher, I was able to use some of my teaching ideas for educational freelance writing. There are many ways for teachers to earn an extra income as a contributer for the educational market.
- How to Become a Better Reader - Implementing While-Reading Strategies in the ESL Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] Reading strategies are all intentionally structured to broaden the students' background, knowledge and skills, and may also to be helpful with other subjects as well. Many of the same strategies are "re-entered" via different activities allowing students to practice using them with different texts.
- 5 Ways Teachers Can Collaborate With Each Other
[Reference-and-Education] The benefits of collaboration may not be evident for new teachers. They still may seek reassurance that their classroom management and lesson planning techniques are effective. But by knowing on which areas of focus, teachers will have a better chance of meeting their instructional needs.
- Should You Collaborate? The Benefits of Collaboration For New and Seasoned Teachers
[Reference-and-Education] Collaboration serves a purpose when it results in opportunities for students and teachers to succeed. In addition to providing instructional support, teachers can consider a collaborative plan to facilitate their teaching.
- Should You Continue After Your First Year of Teaching?
[Reference-and-Education] Need some tips on how to make that decision to take up a full time classroom teaching post? Here are some practical tips that will help you with your decision.
- What Teachers Need in Their School Bag
[Reference-and-Education] Here's a mini guide on what essentials should go into a teacher's book bag, plus a few little extras.It is easy to fill up a teacher's book bag with just plain heavy textbooks and your planner. But have you thought how you can reduce some of the weight? Consider also other book bag essentials. Now here's your chance to get started.
- Networking With Other Freelance Writers Helps Bring Writing Jobs
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Building a freelance writing career can often be a lonely profession starting out, especially when it comes to finding decent paying gigs. Most freelance writers think they are home free once they find a decent paying gig they feel is worth their time and effort. Building a writing career is grueling. It takes persistence and a lot of patience and every little bit that you do will help in the long run.
- Strategies For Visualizing Effective Instruction
[Reference-and-Education] Effective lesson planning goes hand in hand with effective visualizing effective instruction. Often, new teachers experiment with different teaching and classroom management styles as a way to find their own teaching style. Effective visualization techniques can help a new teacher turn those "bad" first year experiences into important lessons. Using a few visualization teaching techniques, you can discover those "right" answers all on your own.
- Effective Communicative Methods For ESL Lesson Planning
[Reference-and-Education] Writing a good lesson plan for ESL lesson planning is all about incorporating effective communicative techniques to suit the material you want to teach to the level of the students. Second, try and present it using effective communicative techniques so that it is challenging and interesting.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Structure a Lesson From Beginning to End
[Reference-and-Education] Structuring a lesson from beginning to end establishes a routine for students. Students will automatically become more focused on learning when they know what to expect.
- Using Summer Reading Activities to Avoid the Brain Drain
[Reference-and-Education] Reading experts say students loose 60% of what they learn if they don't keep up with their reading. Aside from reading motivating types of texts, kids need to reinforce those chunks of information they've learned. These summer reading activities are a start to your summer reading program.
- Requirements For Teaching English As a Second Language
[Reference-and-Education] Are you up to date with ESL teacher requirements? Read on for some important information and procedures for ESL teaching certification.
- Ways Caregivers Can Support Loved Ones With Alzheimer's Disease
[Home-and-Family:Elder-Care] Caregivers of Alzheimer's patients need support and resources. Read on to learn about other caregiving activities for taking care of loved ones with Alzheimer's.
- How to Become a Certified Teacher in the State of Texas
[Reference-and-Education] Students seeking teacher certification in Texas may need to reacquaint themselves with the lengthy procedures for state teaching credentials. Here are a few steps.
- How ESL Teachers Monitor Their Own Teaching Using Collaboration Techniques
[Reference-and-Education] When teachers collaborate, they can monitor the effectiveness of their teaching of English language learners, some of whom struggle to understand what they read.
- How New Teachers Use Effective Instruction to Support Struggling English Language Learners
[Reference-and-Education] It is important for new teachers to provide core instruction to engage struggling English language learners in primary grades. Both ESL and primary general education teachers address areas of difficulty in student learning.
- Tips on Maximizing Your Success For Landing a Teaching Job
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] New to the process of applying for teaching jobs? What's the best way to find a teaching position? Read on for some answers.
- Successful Interview Tips For a New Teaching Job
[Business:Career-Advice] Are you preparing for a teaching interview and need some advice? Read on for successful interview tips for teachers.
- End of the Year Vocabulary Games
[Reference-and-Education] All students enjoy having fun as the end of the school year approaches. For smart end of the year planning, you'll need a handy bag of vocabulary games - especially for those last few days of school.
- Study Strategies and Reading Skills For the National Teaching Exam
[Reference-and-Education] What is the best way to prepare for the Praxis Reading Series of the National Teaching Exam? Read on to find out.
- How to Use Implementing While-Reading Strategies in the ESL Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] A reading program needs to have a proper build up of strategies. Where do you stand as an ESL teacher with regard to implementing them?
- Party Planning For Teachers - Planning the End of the School Year Events Together
[Reference-and-Education] Stumped for teacher party ideas? Here are some ideas for some end of the school year party fun.
- How to Promote Your Business While Building Good Social Networking Relationships
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] The Internet can be a self-serving place when it comes to being kind. One can always tend to view the Internet as a huge bargain basement or antique sale and until he or she finally figures out what in the world they are possibly looking for. Pre-Internet folks like me who quickly caught on with technology but did not leave their manners in the lavender still find it hard to 'talk' to a computer screen.
- How to Search For a Job Well-Suited For You in an Uncertain Economy
[Business:Careers-Employment] In an uncertain economy, the changes affecting organizations today are on a much higher standard. There is the element of world-wide competition, high tech requirements, more project-oriented agendas and then, comes the issue of managing people. All this of course, affects your ability to manipulate and use your knowledge of job search strategies in order to market yourself in the most attractive manner possible to a future hiring manager.
- How to Maximize Your Time With a Writing Group While Building a Freelance Writing Career
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Good writing always comes from deep from the gut, the emotions, and the mind. It is difficult to even think of sharing your writing and interacting early on for fear of criticism, receiving negative feedback from older more seasoned writers leading to other early perceptions of fear and doubt, which can stagnant a determined writer and perhaps even his or her career. However, this does not necessarily have to be.
- Should You Pursue a Job Switch and Explore Other Career Options? Important Questions to Know
[Business:Careers-Employment] Taking off time from work even in today's uncertain economy could be your BIGGEST payoff yet. When it comes to professional and personal investment, it is crucial to find where your greatest potential lies, so you can make the maximum investment for your career.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Teach Vocabulary in a Theme
[Reference-and-Education] Teaching vocabulary within a theme can be a very motivating experience for all students. Graphic organizers help students recognize and work with the vocabulary visually.
- Strategic Reading - What, How and Why Behind Reading Strategies in the ESL Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] What is Strategic Reading? In the ESL classroom, what and how to read go hand in hand. Strategic Reading is helping the student to comprehend what he or she is about to read by offering a plethora of pre-while-post reading strategies to the student.
- Tips on Student Research Projects - Motivating High School Students Using Project Lesson Plans
[Reference-and-Education] Help motivate high school students by teaching them how to do a research project. Here are some tips to help you along.
- Methods of Teaching Grammar in the 'English As a Second and Foreign Language' Classrooms
[Reference-and-Education] Teaching grammar in today's ESL and EFL classroom poses quite a few myths. How should grammar be taught? While there is no right way, there are certainly helpful methods to consider.
- Read Alouds to Young ESL Children
[Reference-and-Education] Starting Out First things first, parents should choose books they enjoyed as children. This enjoyment must be felt by the child in order for any magic to happen. For toddlers, stories should be much shorter.
- How to Teach Vocabulary Orally For the Young ESL, EFL Learner
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Pre-school ESL/EFL learners need a variety of oral activities of the sound-letter correspondence of the English language prior to being able to read them in whole words and sentences. This article will focus on some creative and even dramatic activities and ideas ranging from recognition to production as the basis for teaching reading to young ESL learners.
- New Teacher Tips on How to Thrive and Survive During the Last Few Months of School
[Reference-and-Education] With spring and warmer weather still to come, students continue to have their own excuses for not putting 100% effort. And of course, there are more non-school related activities that may distract them. Perhaps you already for example, teach fewer students because of some of these "distractions.
- Six Ways to Choose the Best Teaching Approach That's Right For You!
[Reference-and-Education] What is a teaching approach? If you're a new or experienced teacher, a teaching approach is simply HOW you plan on engaging your students from beginning to end.
- How New Teachers Can Instantly Improve Their Teaching
[Reference-and-Education] You can instantly improve your teaching if you make a conscious effort to understand what went on in the lessons on a daily basis. This helps you provide more engaging methods of learning.
- Celebrating the Passover - Holiday Activities and Crafts
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] The Jewish holiday of Passover is just around the corner. Help your child understand more about this significant holiday with a few Passover activities and crafts.
- New Teacher Tips - How Teachers Can Be More Spontaneous
[Reference-and-Education] How to exercise your spontaneity doesn't mean just doing a whole bunch of creative activities. New teachers need to set their intention that a spontaneous lesson does not mean chaos. It simply means opening yourself to working with teachable moments as they pop up.
- Jewish Traditions - What's Your Weekly Mitzvah?
[News-and-Society:Religion] What gives you a sense of Jewish unity, community and knowledge of who you are and how far back you have come? At the Squirrel Hill library in Pittsburgh, I used to spend parts of the later afternoon reading to a three year old boy for a non-profit book organization. It was entirely voluntary.
- Jews Can Learn and Remember the Power of a Jewish Leader During the Jewish Holiday of Shavuot
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] It's hard to eat a cheesecake and not remember fully the importance of good or hesed as exemplified by the remarkable Jewish leader, Ruth in the book of Ruth, which is read on this holiday. We can all apply to some small extent, the principles of goodness which Ruth is known for, in some way by being neighborly, practicing gratefulness and helping others in need.
- The Passover Sedar Night - A Basic Information Guide About Passover
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Passover celebrates the journey of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, probably in the 1200s B.C.E. The story of Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is told in the Bible in Chapter 12 of the Book of Exodus. It begins with the death of Joseph and the rise of a new Egyptian Pharaoh, which brings in an era of slavery for the Israelites.
- Best Summer Jobs For Teachers - How to Pick a Great Teaching Position
[Business:Careers-Employment] Teaching? Tutoring? Summer Camp? What should you take during the summer? Here are some tips on which summer teaching jobs to take, and which ones you should reconsider.
- 10 Ways Teachers Can Adapt and Accommodate Instruction to Engage Students Effectively
[Reference-and-Education] Teachers, especially newer ones, are told they need to adapt their instruction. But many aren't sure how to go about doing it. Here are ten ways teachers can adapt instruction to effectively engage their students.
- Teaching Tips For New First Grade Teachers on Teaching English Language Learners How to Read
[Reference-and-Education] Teaching English language learners in mainstream classes how to read is a task in itself and many need a great deal of support. New teachers are often looking for some effective teaching and assessment tips they can use for their first grade English language learners who know absolutely no English at all.
- New Teachers - A Great Lesson Planning Strategy Made Simple - Thinking in Threes!
[Reference-and-Education] The simplest way for new teachers to approach lesson planning is by using the "thinking in threes" system. The "thinking in threes" system is a great way to plan and teach strategically.
- How Teachers Can Differentiate Instruction to Effectively Engage Their Students
[Reference-and-Education] One of the hardest tasks for new teachers is differentiating instruction yet many new teachers aren't sure how to plan and diversify instructional practices to increase student success. In planning for differentiated instruction, a teacher need to first acknowledge that each student learns differently.
- An Exercise in Creative Classroom Management - How to Become a More Empathetic Teacher
[Reference-and-Education] In order to improve their teaching and listening skills, teachers need to be more empathetic towards their students. You might be too overwhelmed with the demands of teaching and managing a classroom, but developing empathy is a survival skill that ALL new and veteran teachers need.
- Checklists Are Great Time Management Strategies For Lesson Planning and Managing a Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] Many new teachers are often overwhelmed by all they need to do to make sure they are on top of everything and also ensuring students' success. Here are a few effective time management strategies that can help organize your lesson planning and classroom management time and your career.
- New Teacher Tips and Tricks For Planning For a Mixed Ability Class
[Reference-and-Education] Often new teachers spend too much time planning activities for their lessons that they tend to overlook the needs of their students. When this happens, they are more concerned about the structure of the lesson plan and how it is set up without realizing that they've drifted too far away from connecting with their students. Planning for a mixed ability class demands a great deal ...
- Summer Jobs For Teachers
[Business:Careers-Employment] What? Work during the summer after such a difficult first year teaching? Actually, you would be earning some extra money while transferring your classroom experience. This means looking for summer jobs for teachers. After all, teaching is such a versatile profession.
- Teaching College Students How to Write Research Papers
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Writing research papers is a skill college students abhor simply because they weren't taught the mechanics of effective research and writing. With a bit of help and instructional support, you can turn your college students into great researchers and writers.
- How to Improve Your Lesson Planning Strategies
[Reference-and-Education] Improving lesson plans begins and ends with reflective teaching. How much do you use this valuable skill?
- How to Adapt Free Worksheets From the Internet to Help With Discipline Problems
[Reference-and-Education] Do you use every single free teaching worksheet you found on the Internet for your classes? Sometimes worksheets can be the major cause of discipline problems. Read on to find out why.
- A Teaching Plan Needs Follow-Through For Discipline Related Issues
[Reference-and-Education] Every new and seasoned teacher needs a follow-through plan when it comes time to responding to discipline and other classroom management and lesson planning issues. What kind of follow-through plan do you have and how do you use it?
- How Teacher Mentoring Can Help You Learn How to Become a Successful and Confident Teacher
[Reference-and-Education] Teachers who don't have a teaching plan usually are the same ones who experience new teacher burnout. A good teacher mentor provides long-lasting guidance and proper support that helps teachers stick to the challenge of teaching which eventually leads to personal self-fulfillment. I had to "swim or swim" in my first year of teaching.
- Teaching Tips on Differentiated Instruction
[Reference-and-Education] Do you know What differentiated instruction is and how to use it in your classroom? This article provides a brief overview on differentiated teaching and some strategies you can use.
- Tips For Motivating Small Groups to Learn
[Reference-and-Education] Are you short of ideas for motivating your small groups especially now that the end of the school year is here? Read on for some teaching tips.
- New Teacher Report - Simple Steps to Successful Teaching - It All Begins With a Mindset!
[Reference-and-Education] Discipline problems are not the only reasons why poor lessons happen. Many times a teacher's mindset can explain why discipline problems never seem to end.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Set Up a Special Education Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] If your child is in a special education class, it is imperative that several things should be in order in order to maximize the learning conditions and subsequently their achievement. In order to facilitate the learning, the classroom should have a special desk arrangement. Desks should be arranged in rows in order to minimize the amount of distractions caused by group and paired learning.
- Thematic Lesson Planning Using the Debate of Children's School Uniforms
[Reference-and-Education] Lesson Planning around children's school uniforms is thematically popular for any new or seasoned teacher. Here is a thematic lesson planning framework to help get you thinking about children's school uniforms.
- New Teacher Tips For How to Write a Lesson Plan That Engages Your Students
[Reference-and-Education] Here are a few tips to help get you started. A good lesson typically has three main parts.
- Tips on Getting a Great Teaching Load in a Teacher's First Year
[Reference-and-Education] How should teachers know which grades they are best at teaching? In a new teacher's first year, s/he should go for those grades and levels s/he feels most comfortable with.
- New Teachers and Parents - The Secrets to Successfully Teaching Literacy to ELLs
[Reference-and-Education] The best way of course to instill literacy in young ELLs is through reading. The question is how? A balanced reading-oral approach is highly effective for creating an interactive learning experience.
- Teaching Tips For Holiday Reading Activities
[Reference-and-Education] With Christmas and Hanukah just around the corner, consider holiday reading activities as part of your curriculum. After-reading activities are the most loosely defined activities, since they build on students prior knowledge and themed reading lessons. Students can do these activities in conjunction with the class reader or individualized reading about the holidays - the most important issue being they should be offered a choice of activities.
- New Teachers - Secrets For Building a Successful and Effective Classroom Management Plan
[Reference-and-Education] How can you effectively manage a classroom without becoming burnt out? Here are a few tips to help you.
- Confidence Building Tips 101 - For New Teachers - What Works and What Doesn't
[Reference-and-Education] Beginning your Monday morning with the right approach and attitude makes ALL the difference between a successful and confident teacher. But how can you build your expertise when you aren't feeling confident? New teachers think that expert advice comes from outside sources. But there's a lot they can do on their own to build confidence.
- New Teachers - How Can You Know If Your Lesson Plan Isn't Tight Enough?
[Reference-and-Education] Lesson Planning is a skill that takes a practice, practice and practice. Teachers sometimes take a lesson as a given without the given context of time and organization. But when there aren't enough differentiating activities.
- New Teacher Tips - What Makes a Teacher Good?
[Reference-and-Education] With the demands of teaching, it's hard to know in advance what makes a teacher good, but there are certainly ways to try. The first step begins with building a good relationship with the students.
- New Teachers - What's the Difference Between the Good & Not So Good Intentions of a Seating Plan?
[Reference-and-Education] Not all teachers distinguish between the good and not so good intention of a seating chart during his/her first year of teaching. Here's why.
- New Teachers - Do You Have an Engaging Lesson Plan?
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers should always aim to engage their learners instead of trying to come across as as engaging teacher first off. The personality element will come later.
- Classroom Management Tips For Succeeding in the Teaching Profession
[Reference-and-Education] How far have you come as a new teacher in terms of managing discipline problems? Do you have what it takes to succeed in the teaching profession? Here are some classroom management tips to help you evaluate your classroom management plan.
- New Teacher Tips on How to Effectively Combine Your Classroom Management and Lesson Planning Skills
[Reference-and-Education] How can you tap into your teaching skills to manage the classroom more effectively? Here is a checklist of lesson planning tips and what to be on the lookout for when managing your classroom.
- Traveling With Children of Special Needs and Disabilities
[Travel-and-Leisure] Everybody needs some time to get away from a routine, but traveling with a child of special needs and disabilities almost sounds like a contradiction in terms. Parents may wonder how enjoying the time with their own children of special needs and disabilities is in fact, possible and the same as true enjoyment. In beginning the planning process, parents should first pick a vacation spot that is also accommodating to those specific special needs and disabilities.
- Ten Important Classroom Management Tips and Strategies
[Reference-and-Education] Every new and seasoned teacher needs ten effective classroom management strategies and tips to keep a lesson rolling. What classroom management tips and strategies do you use?
- Tips on Offsetting Discipline Problems
[Reference-and-Education] How intent are you to offset discipline problems? As you already know, even in the most engaging lesson, discipline problems can happen. The question is - what steps do you take to ensure that your students will constantly be on task?
- A New Teacher's Guide to Effective Instruction
[Reference-and-Education] Each lesson helps develop your own personal teaching and classroom management style. Here's a new teacher's guide to effective instruction.
- Tips and Strategies For Becoming a Better Teacher and Taking Control of Your Lesson Plans
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] The best way to motivate students to learn, is how your manipulate the elements of your lesson plan. Here are a few tips to help get you started.
- New Teachers - Why You Need a Long Term Plan For Teaching
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers have a serious decision to make after the first year of teaching - should they stay or quit their teaching jobs? Of course nobody can answer that except for yourself. While you might never know if you made the right decision to leave after your first year, a second year of teaching in fact, gives you the bigger picture that you can't get from your first year of teaching.
- Five New Teacher Tips on How You Can Jazz Up Your Lesson Plan
[Reference-and-Education] It is usually in the middle of the year that it's time to pick up the momentum and pick up the lesson plan pace. Here are five new teacher tips on how you can jazz up your lesson plan.
- New Teacher Tips - Are You in the Lesson Planning Trap?
[Business:Career-Advice] Are you in the Lesson Planning Trap? Here are some tips that will help you get out of that lesson planning trap for good.
- Five New Teacher Tips For De-Stressing Before and After the Holiday Vacation
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] New teachers are quickly prone to cold symptoms because they are under stress especially right before a holiday vacation. Chances are, you are probably forgetting about about your own needs. Here are some new teacher tips to help you implement some more balance in your life.
- New Teachers Need Ongoing Procedures For Helping Students to Learn More Effectively
[Reference-and-Education] Once you've built the initial procedures you need to create a sense of learning, you'll need ongoing procedures for maintaining a serious classroom atmosphere for learning. New teachers need ongoing procedures for helping students to learn more effectively.
- New Teachers Need to Know How to Make a 2009 Teaching Plan
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers often write their teaching goals down but don't follow through. Don't let this happen to you! In order to ensure that you'll have a successful year, spend time evaluating your teaching successes and planning for next year's teaching goals.
- Inexpensive Student Gift Ideas
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] If you are the kind of teacher who wants to makes students feel good at anytime of the year, it's only natural that you'll probably wonder first about the amount of expenses, right? Of course, the key is keeping your expenses within a budget. End of the year gifts can quickly add up!
- Strategies and Tips For Finding a Teacher Mentor
[Reference-and-Education] Teacher mentorship plays an important role in pre-service training. Choosing a teacher mentor is part of this process. Here is a list of tips and criteria to help you.
- Tips For New Teachers - Helpful Hints For a Successful School Year
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers need helpful hints and tips for jump-starting any teaching careers. Here are some teacher friendly tips to getting a hold of your classroom management and lesson planning.
- Five Easy Ways to Avoid Discipline Problems
[Reference-and-Education] Discipline problems can be a new teacher's worst nightmare. There are small things new teachers can do in their lesson planning to avoid discipline problems.
- Lesson Planning Preventable Tips and Tricks on Preparing Students For a New Classroom Activity
[Reference-and-Education] Every teacher should have discipline planning preventers that they can use at the spur of the moment. For many new teachers, this means catching discipline issues before they become problems.
- New Teacher Tips - How Teachers Can Create a Successful 2009 Teaching Plan
[Reference-and-Education] Picture this: You've come back to the classroom on an upbeat note knowing you've written what you think are the goals of your dreams. But there is a problem: you're starting to lose focus. By the first week of February, you are back where you started from: unmotivated and unwilling to to become that teacher of your dreams.
- New Year Resolutions For Teachers - Getting Organized
[Reference-and-Education] How organized are you? Organization is particularly important for all teachers both new and the seasoned teacher. Consider some of the following ideas.
- New Teacher Mentoring - Creating a New Teacher Support Plan
[Reference-and-Education] The teachers who graduated with me left teaching right after their first year. They complained of a lack of new teacher support and difficult teaching conditions. I believe that if they had the right teacher mentorship, guidance and proper support, they might have reconsidered their teaching posts and might have stayed on in their teaching careers.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Become a Good Teacher
[Business:Career-Advice] I always say that experience is the best teacher. Unfortunately, experience in the classroom works in odd ways for each individual teacher. The success of my personal journey was all about a series of ups and downs.
- How to Engage Students More Effectively Using PowerPoint Lessons
[Reference-and-Education] PowerPoint presentation lessons can be done either effectively or boringly. The path you choose to work has serious implications for engaging students.
- When Teaching For New Teachers Goes Beyond the Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] Two years ago, I had a student email me for telling me how much he enjoyed the lesson I taught. He said he really enjoyed it and he wished me a fun day. How many times do we as teachers get something so nice as that?
- Preventive Tips For the Hard to Handle Class and Student
[Reference-and-Education] Every new teacher needs preventive tips on how to deal with the hard to handle class and student. How often have you used the following steps?
- Classroom Management Exercises For New Teachers
[Reference-and-Education] Classroom management exercises are those steps new teachers need to take as part of injecting the person within their teachers. More simply put, how to work with their unique and distinct personalities when managing a classroom.
- How New Teachers Can Be More Spontaneous in the Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] I admit it. I was very scared of being visited during my first year of teaching. I distinctly recall when the English inspector came around to visiting me.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Deal With Discipline Problems
[Reference-and-Education] Teaching is hard, no matter which angle you view it. You will have difficult days and you will have easier days. But it all boils down to how you can use your power as a listener (one of our many roles as teachers) to help foster positive communication, which will offset discipline problems in the class by 99% once you do it routinely and you mean what you say.
- Classroom Management Tips For New Teachers
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers don't always know what kind of classroom tips work best for their needs until they experience the role of classroom management and confront challenging classroom situations. Then, it becomes easier to exercise better judgment and create the steps you need to create a support plan.
- The Ups and Downs of Lesson Planning For New Teachers
[Reference-and-Education] Lesson planning mistakes go hand in hand with classroom management issues. What are some of the major questions you should ask when planning lessons?
- Time Management Techniques For New Teachers on How to Balance Teaching and Managing a Classroom
[Reference-and-Education] Ever wonder what's the secret behind all those successful teachers and how they manage to through successfully with their classroom management and lesson planning duties? Learning more about these time management secrets in this special article.
- New Teachers - Great Strategies For Regaining Classroom Control
[Reference-and-Education] When discipline problems start, it is usually time for new teachers to regain classroom control yet each classroom situation is new and unique. Here are some great strategies for regaining classroom control so that the classroom doesn't take over you!
- Helping New Teachers See Tests As a Positive Experience in Their Teaching
[Reference-and-Education] Contrary to what most teachers think, tests can be a positive experience especially when you are able to think beyond the box of what is a standarized test. The criteria for building a positive test experiences often comes from positive learning experiences.
- Teaching Test Taking Skills - Coping With Test Anxiety Using Reading Strategies
[Reference-and-Education] Reading strategies can be both a learning and study skill. Here are some reading tips and strategies for coping with test taking. Welcome to study skills 101.
- Classroom Management Tips For New Seating Arrangements
[Reference-and-Education] For a new teacher's classroom arrangements, the classroom seating chart might look typically standard - usually with frontal rows. With a new class, this is probably a good option as a new teacher needs to teach first and talk later. The frontal classroom seating arrangement is probably the best way to go in terms of getting to know a new class and exercising classroom control.
- New Teachers Preteach Classroom Procedures
[Reference-and-Education] What are some of the techniques new teachers should know about preteaching classroom procedures? This article gives tips and strategies for maximizing your efforts in preteaching classroom procedures.
- Teacher Man - A Review - Lessons in Empowerment Teaching High School Students
[Book-Reviews:Biographies-Memoirs] In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt describes his early experiences teaching in the New York City public school system in the fifties and sixties. It is a tough journey for young Frank McCourt in the teaching world.
- A New Teacher Tip to Help You Become the Teacher of Your Dreams
[Reference-and-Education] Every teacher's book seems to have the magic recipe for enjoying the teacher's life. But the answer is about cracking the classroom management question. Teach what you love and build a connection with your students.
- Five New Teacher Tips to Developing Good Collaborations With Other Teachers
[Reference-and-Education] One of the more challenging tasks for a new teacher is to learn how to build collaborative relationships with other teachers under intense time and curriculum constraints. Here are a few tips to help you create supportive learning and teaching environments.
- How New Teachers Should Use Strategic Reading Activities
[Reference-and-Education] Reading is a complex activity and one of the most important skills in language learning. Strategic teaching helps engage students by creating more opportunities for them to understand what s/he is reading.
- Teaching Using Time Management Strategies to Lighten a Teacher's Marking Load
[Reference-and-Education] Teaching using time management systems is the smart way to go for new teachers starting out. Teachers are always short of time to plan, check and grade work and new teachers need time management strategies to help transition to the new work load.
- How to Plan Lessons Using Learning Styles
[Reference-and-Education] The secret to motivation is to use learning styles in lesson planning as often as possible. Here are a few tips for the new and seasoned teacher.
- Free Stuff For Teachers
[Reference-and-Education] It's enough that teachers spend tons of money on school supplies every year. Teachers need a break! How about some free stuff for teachers?
- Checklist For Teacher Resources
[Reference-and-Education] The importance of planning and developing classroom and learning resources are easily overlooked by a new teacher. Here is a handy checklist you should consider using when evaluating some of the newer resources that are coming your way.
- New Teachers Need a Checklist For a Lesson Planning - Before and After
[Reference-and-Education] Not every lesson will go according to plan but as a new teacher, you can ensure your lessons will go as smoothly as you can using this simple to use checklist. Print out the checklist below and examine it in light of your lesson.
- Successful Lesson Planns Have Effective Lesson Beginnings
[Reference-and-Education] How to engaging ALL students from the very beginning requires planning effective lesson beginnings. How should you do it? Here are some guidelines to help get you started.
- New Teacher Survival Tips - How to Build Good Parent Communication
[Reference-and-Education] Building good parent communication is one of a new teacher's survival tasks. Here are some new teacher survival tips for coping with parent teacher conferences phone calls.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Survive Classroom Visits and Observations
[Reference-and-Education] That first classroom visit can be very scary but it doesn't have to be a test of survival. How prepared are you? Here are some tips to get through it all.
- Tips For Checking Student Work - Checking Less Leads to More Student Independence
[Reference-and-Education] Encouraging student independence may not always be part of a new teacher's agenda, but it is an important way to build positive students relationships. Doing so will help build trust and foster self-esteem.
- New Teacher Survival Tips - How to Reinforce Procedures
[Reference-and-Education] As part of your classroom management plan, some students will try and test the limits of your classroom procedures. It is important to have procedures students understand and are easy for teachers to follow-through and enforce.
- Keeping Your Students Accountable Using a Classroom Planner
[Reference-and-Education] Having a classroom planner is one of the most important resources of both a new and seasoned teacher. It is the heart of student accountability. Try using these easy steps to make grading and record keeping easier.
- A Checklist For New Teachers - How Good is Your Lesson?
[Reference-and-Education] What is a good lesson? What is a bad lesson? Here's a checklist to help you evaluate which areas of your lesson planning and classroom management need improvement.
- New Teacher Tips on Improving Your Lesson Plan
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers often live inside their own heads and are so involved with their students, that it is hard to step back and be objective. However, it is necessary to step back in order to understand what went wrong so as to improve the lesson. After all, quality is much better than quantity!
- New Teacher Tips - Find Out What Ticks Your Class
[Reference-and-Education] Knowing what motivates your students is an important part of effective instruction. Yet, many new teachers simply teach using the lesson plan and forget the importance of engaging students by finding out what motivates them. Thinking outside the box is an important first step. Here are a few new teacher tips to help you get started.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Teach More and Mark Less
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers typically take home oodles of work which raises their stress and burnout. As a new teacher, you'll want to aim for learner independence and a stress-free life. This article will provide you with tips on how to do this most effectively without taking any extra work home.
- New Teacher Tips - How to Build Confidence With Your Lesson Plans
[Reference-and-Education] Keeping the confidence all throughout the day involves believing first and foremost, in your ability to succeed as a teacher. Often, discipline problems happen because a new teacher lacks confidence in one or more areas of his/her teaching. Just for today, consider how you relate to your students, and engage them from the minute you enter the classroom.
- Creating an Engaging Educational Plan
[Reference-and-Education] At the end of five years, many new teachers leave the educational system for good completely burnt out from the world of teaching. Very often, these are potentially good educators with high dreams to engage their students. If only they had one thing going for them, they would have excelled in their mission.
- New Teacher Tips - Using the Information From Your Lessons to Plan For Your Next Lessons
[Reference-and-Education] One of the most important ingredient for successful lesson planning is dependent on the success of previous lessons. Here are some cost effective tips for maximizing your lesson planning.
- New Teacher Tips - Taking Charge of Your Classroom Management Techniques
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers feel they need to react to every negative classroom situation in order to show their authority. Taking control of the classroom means using your authority to build positive relationships with students so that they will more engaged with you and what's going on in the class.
- Five Tips on How Teachers Can Be More Organized and Avoid Teacher Stress Early on in the School Year
[Reference-and-Education] Not having an organized teaching system is one of the main reasons why teachers easily stress out the minute new paperwork comes in. Avoid some of this unnecessary teacher stress early on.
- How to Begin the Lesson Using the Smartboards Or Whiteboards
[Reference-and-Education] Directing students right away to the blackboard is not an effective way to begin a lesson. However many new teachers who lack confidence often feel it generates authority and presence. But establishing a strong lesson beginning begins with supplementing what you say with what you write on the board.
- Lesson Planning Tips For English Language Learners - You Need a Weekly Support Plan For Your ELLs
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] Most general education teachers of ELLs (English language learners) will tell you they are usually doing one of two things to support their readers. They are either figuring out the best way to teach them within a full class inclusion or what kind of activities can suit their abilities within a full class framework.
- New Teacher Tip - How to Become More Organized For the First Days of School
[Reference-and-Education] Getting organized is a fact for every new teacher but not too many new teachers allow the clutter to interfere and do not keeping track of important dates, assignments, and even the workpages they have in their home files. Here are a few tips for the new teacher for organizing your life both at school and at home.
- Ten Mistakes New Teachers Make
[Reference-and-Education] How to become a good teacher requires patience and skill. Every new teacher needs tips on how to improve his or her classroom management. How guilty are you of the top ten mistakes new teachers make? Here are a few new teacher tips to help you survive your first year of teaching.
- Lesson Planning Basics - Using the Textbook As Your Guide
[Reference-and-Education] For both a new and inexperienced teacher, a textbook provides useful information on level and textbook activities. There are times though when we need to find other ways of planning our lessons and avoid teacher dependency on textbooks.
- New Teacher Tips on Dealing With Discipline Problems
[Reference-and-Education] Dealing with discipline problems is part of a classroom management plan. Fortunately, there are tips to help the new teacher work with discipline problems instead of against them. It all boils down to your lesson plan.
- New Teacher Support - Tips to Get Help Started With Lesson Planning
[Reference-and-Education] One of the easiest ways to take control of your weekly lesson planning and marking is to get into a weekly habit of getting lesson plan support. In my early years of teaching, I had to seek out lesson planning support so I would feel prepared and organized for my classes. Here are a few ways to help you do that.
- New Teacher Tip - Take Control of Your Classroom Through Strategic Teaching
[Reference-and-Education] What's the best way to plan a strategic lesson that is highly engaging and effective? Strategic thought planning allows you to tap into what your students already know. You'll be surprised to see well you can engage them with a few lesson planning tips.
- Teacher Mentor - Teacher Coach
[Reference-and-Education] Classroom management can be a new teacher's worst nightmare. Teacher mentors can suddenly become a new teacher's best friend.
- How Classroom Management Styles Help You Cope With Discipline Problems
[Reference-and-Education] Feeling comfortable with your own classroom management style is key for solving discipline problems. Once you have an effective classroom management system in place, it's time to work with your classroom management style.
- New Teachers - You Need Long Term Lesson Plan Goals - A New Teacher's Lesson Planning Checklist
[Reference-and-Education] New teachers are often so caught up in short term lesson goals. successful first year teachers need a balance between long and short term decisions. While this may appear as too much of educational challenge, working in this fashion actually helps new teachers cope better with the duties of the first year of teaching.
- A Seating Chart Can Be a New Teacher's Best Friend
[Reference-and-Education] Having a seating chart is incredibly helpful during a teacher's first year. It is great tool for helping new teachers take control in the classroom. One of the most important things a teacher can do is to get to know the students' names in a short time as possible.In the first year, a new teacher should sit the students as traditionally as possible in order to avoid discipline problems with "too friendly" classroom desk arrangements.
- Teaching Tips on Safe Sex High School Education
[Reference-and-Education] Teaching safe sex high school education doesn't have to be a chore. Here are some tips on how to teach safe sex education in high school.
- Tips on How to Become a Good Teacher
[Reference-and-Education] What's the difference between a teacher and an educator? Educators think two and even dimensionally in terms of engaging the students in a wide range of learning and thinking possibilities.
- New Teachers - You Need a Weekly Lesson Plan
[Reference-and-Education] Many new teachers survive their first year of teaching and plan from lesson to lesson. Make it your goal for the first weeks of school to develop a weekly lesson plan.
- New Teachers - How to Create Rules and Procedures That Won't Stress You Out!
[Reference-and-Education] Many discipline problems are typically classroom management issues. New teachers tend to create rules and procedures that hold together for just a short while before they find themselves dealing with another wave of discipline problems.
- How to Motivate Adult Students While Teaching English As a Second Language
[Reference-and-Education:Languages] It might seem like a relatively easy task but teaching adults is cognitively more challenging than you think. Here are some "tips of the trade" to help you with task of motivating your adult students, no matter what subject you teach.
- Do You Want to Write For Children? Consider Joining a Children's Writers Coaching Club!
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] A children's writers' coaching club is different than a how to writing course for kids. Coaching clubs are designed to give a newbie writer and illustrator a sense of belonging. Besides that, a well-informed children's writers group also shares invaluable tips and tricks on the craft of writing and illustrating for kids.
- Are You Ready to Make Your Freelance Writing Fortune? - A Writing Coach Can Help!
[Writing-and-Speaking] Are you still struggling to make money from your writing? Are you struggling to get on track? A writer's coach can help you get the support you need to boost your freelance writing career!
- How to Improve and Adjust Your Instruction After Testing
[Reference-and-Education] Marking tests is a real eye opening not only for students, but for teachers as well. In fact, students' performance on a test is actually a "report" on the quality of a teacher's instruction. In this guide below, you'll find a few tips on how to use the information from a test performance to improve the quality of your instruction.
- New Teacher Tips - What Comes First, Teaching Or Managing a Classroom?
[Reference-and-Education] So what impression do you want to make on your students? Are you the tough classroom manager or the educator at heart? From my twelve years in the classroom, I've learned that an effective classroom management plan doesn't mean sticking to the basics. A classroom management plan should allow you to do something that will engage your learners so they can ultimately connect with you better thus giving them a reason to listen.
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