Articles for Teachers

How to Improve Grades - Prevent Making These Common Mistakes -- Karl S

Do you need to improve your grades to be accepted to your dream college, to achieve better grades or to simply pass a class? So if you are wondering "how to improve grades", you have to understand ...

How to learn a foreign language quickly -- Mike Manou

1) Give yourself enough time! One factor in learning a foreign language is time! I have a lot of students who have been in class for a week and they expect to speak fluently. This is almost ...

Qualities Of An Esl English Teacher -- John Harley

Every teacher in the world prefers the idealism that their students should like them. This is for a number of reasons but most importantly, a student who likes their teacher is more productive and ...

How to Stop Teachers' Pain in the Classroom - Learn to Deal With Kids' Behaviour! -- Liz Marsden

When a teacher's having problems managing behaviour in the classroom some action has to be taken to remedy the situation. I don't really like being asked to observe teachers' lessons when ...

Are You a Teacher Who Wastes Too Much Time Talking to Badly Behaved Kids? Big Mistake! -- Liz Marsden

A head teacher wanted to know where she was going wrong with an 8 year old boy who was behaving atrociously in her school. How was his behaviour so bad and what did she do about it? The 1 to 1 ...

Emotionally Abused Kids - Teachers Meet So Many of Them in Schools Today! -- Liz Marsden

There's no doubt that abuse is an emotive word. A problem around emotional abuse is that it can't be seen - well not immediately anyway. Emotional abuse doesn't come in the form of ...

Lets Make a Deal - How to Help Fading (and Failing) Students End the Year -- Matthew Amaral

Everyone loves the end of the school year, especially the teachers and students. The parents, maybe not so much. The reason I like the end of the year so much is because it is such a clean break. At ...

Blame the Parents - I Do -- Matthew Amaral

Last year at Back-To-School-Night, I was pleasantly surprised to see both parents of a struggling student show up. The student was in my accelerated 9th grade class. She had an F, she didn't do ...

How to Have the After School Conversation With a Struggling Student -- Matthew Amaral

Six Tips on How to Have the Talk I love it. I love it love it love it when I hear people give their two cents about how we should handle our worst students in our worst public schools. Whether it is ...

15 Ways to Motivate Struggling Students This Summer -- Benjamin Joseph Tanner

The progress your struggling readers have made this year can be far too easily undone in one summer spent in front of the television. A few days ago, we posted some ideas for helping parents ...

Being the Floater - Tips For First Time Teachers -- Dominic Bartalino

It's hard not to get depressed when you find yourself carrying all of your worldly teaching possessions with you from class to class. You may feel like the school's resident hobo, wandering ...

Going to School Events - Tips For First Time Teachers -- Dominic Bartalino

The job you do as a teacher is not confined to just you standing in front of the chalkboard, delivering information and knowledge. That's just a piece to the overall puzzle that is your school ...

Rounding Scores - Should You Do It? Tips For First Time Teachers -- Dominic Bartalino

The great debate of whether or not to round a student's score rages on. In your first year of teaching you will no doubt come up with your first 89.5 and have to decide if it's an 89 or a 90. ...

Avoiding Sexual Harassment - Tips For First Time Teachers -- Dominic Bartalino

At some point in your career you'll probably be accused of sexual harassment, even if you are in no way guilty of it. It's a very serious allegation and the stigma may follow you around even ...

Music for English Learners -- Ben Tanner

Music can change a bad day to good and a good day to great. It’s funny how powerful music can be when it comes to giving us a boost of energy or helping us relax. But the power of music goes deeper ...

English Teacher Requirements in the United States - How to Teach English -- Sidney Landers

It is said that English is the universal language. It is the official language of over 70 countries and the national language of the U.S. with over 96% of the population claiming to have the ability ...

The Evolution of Education -- Pam Donaldson

Today's classroom is more student-friendly than were the elementary and high schools of the past. If you ask most people to describe the good old days, they will tell you about how the past was ...

Careers - Considering Teaching -- Pam Donaldson

Being a teacher is definitely a different and odd kind of job to have. There are things that go along with being a teacher that don't apply to any other job you can think of in the world. If you ...

Dealing With Noisy Students -- Pam Donaldson

After spending a few weeks in the same classroom with the same peers, your students will become more comfortable with their environment. They'll make friends and as a group they'll become ...

Eight Tips On How To Improve Student Assessment Test Scores -- Annette Wescott

If you're wondering how to improve test scores on your child's student assessment tests, you've come to the right place. Education Reform measures now mandate that states must implement a ...

When Your Child Is Reluctant To Read Books – What Do You Do? -- Scott Constable

Does your child like to read books? The answer more often than not is no. Most children do not like to read and this can be frustrating for their parents. Often times, the reason they are not ...

Rookie Teacher Survival Tips 1 -- Shannon Holden

My website shows teachers how to survive their first years of teaching. Here’s one good way to get your career off on the right foot: When we start our career, we want to make our bosses glad that ...

An Easy Way to Give Ongoing Feedback to Students -- Steve McCrea

A suggestion about ongoing evaluation and feedback to students Summary The issue of “ongoing assessment” and feedback is often overlooked in the typical week of learning. Four days of presenting ...

Skype In the Classroom (Effective Use) -- Steve McCrea

How to use SKYPE in the Classroom By Steve McCrea Skype: SteveEnglishTeacher Knowing how to use Skype is a skill that will grow in importance. This list of tips will help teachers use the program ...

Speaking American English: 4 Strategies You Can Use to Slow Down Your Speech -- Susan Ryan

Many of the students I work with speak English very quickly. This makes it difficult to understand what they are saying! Sometimes they speak quickly because they feel nervous. Sometimes their fast ...

Building a Reputation - Tips For First Time Teachers -- Dominic Bartalino

Discipline comes with teaching. There's no way around it, and most teachers don't like to hear this fact. They wish that they could just teach and not have to worry about keeping their ...

Entertaining Students - Tips For First Time Teachers -- Dominic Bartalino

Some teachers think that they aren't paid to entertain their students. They think that just educating them is enough. The only problem with this mentality is that if you don't engage your ...

5 Grouping Strategies to Increase Learning in the Classroom -- Karl Johnson

Creating and maintaining classroom interaction is something that every teacher wants and needs to have. Grouping student is one of the simplest ways to change the dynamics of the classroom. The ...

Difference - Master of Arts in Teaching and Master of Education -- Ted

The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) degree is generally a pre-service degree that usually requires a minimum of 30 semester hours beyond the Bachelor's degree. While the program often requires ...

Teachers Living -- Ted

you'll be fine. You won't live in a super fancy house, but you won't be stuck living in a dump. You may have to live in an apartment for a couple years before you buy a house.

Teachers Salary and Living -- Ted

You can do it, it is just more difficult than most other professions with college degrees. Teaching pays fine, it just does not pay as well as other jobs that require a degree. My parents were both ...

6 Foolproof Ways to Prepare For a Big Exam -- Vanessa Ann Lea

I am on my early twenties and I can say that I have been a student for most of my life. Like any student, I dread every exam and I rack my brains out to study for each of them. I was the kind of ...

Teachers - Five Strategies to Work Smarter Not Harder -- Steu Mann

Project Based Learning - Matrixed Lessons Teaching with this lesson plan integrates latest research on productive classes. You are prepared for teaching and for dealing with disruptions too. Start ...

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Discrimination when Working Internationally -- Tracey Wilen

Since ancient times women have been viewed, in many cultures, as men's inferiors physically, morally, and intellectually. Today, in western cultures, women enjoy more freedom and equality than ...

Teachers Beliefs and Attitudes in the Classroom -- Karl Johnson

Something to think about are the beliefs and attitudes that a teacher has. At the core is a teachers beliefs and values. This in turn affects the attitudes and the intentions of a the teacher which ...

25 Ways to Maximize Student Interaction in Class -- Karl Johnson

Do you know the movie Blackboard jungle. That movies just popped into my head. It is an old black and white movie circa the 1950s. It reminds me that students are all the same through out the years. ...

Accents and Power Relations in Bilingual Education -- Sally Wide

People naturally have different ways of talking and saying things, though a given instance may or may not constitute a genuine accent. Speech accommodation studies conducted by Leslie M. Beebe and ...

Implications For Bilingual Education -- Sally Wide

Assuming that the learning acquisition (versus learning) hypothesis holds true, individuals socialized to the different forms of English and/or a heritage language have a general understanding of ...

Accents and Their Meaning -- Sally Wide

As commonly understood, a person's accent refers to the way he or she pronounces words, phrases, and other linguistic features of a language in which such pronunciations differ substantially from ...

Interview Tips For Teachers: How To Get A Teaching Job -- Karen Winton

If you have just graduated and want badly to start teaching, you might realize that it's not that easy. Many schools and universities may prefer experienced applicants over inexperienced ones. ...

Is Teaching English Abroad For You? -- Melissa Rubin

English teaching jobs overseas are very popular for young American collegiate students. The opportunity to go to a foreign country and really get integrated into the culture is a pull many feel is ...

Dealing with the parents of students who act tough on teachers -- Jessica

Many parents think that sending their kid to the school means that their educational responsibility towards their kids is over. However, the truth is that a large chunk of kids knowledge (education + ...

7 Helpful Tips For Preventing Teacher Burnout -- Jennifer Dobson

Teaching young children is a rich and rewarding career. However, beware the signs of burnout: grumpiness, fatigue and even depression may catch you unaware. The following tips may just save your ...

10 Best Teaching Tips For a Great School Year -- Jennifer Dobson

Teachers arguably have one of the most challenging and rewarding jobs, all at once. The following list should help you to keep your career in perspective, as well as infuse your students with an ...

School Teacher Fired - What to Do Now -- Jurinsthea Smith

Ever heard of some school teacher fired? Are you afraid it might also happen to you as well? Having second thoughts on the current state of your profession? It is not only teachers in an educational ...

Resigning From a Teaching Job - How to Do it Without Hassles -- Jurinsthea Smith

Resigning from a teaching job is never easy. Nonetheless, it can be simple and worry free on your; end especially if you know the right techniques. And if you happen to be one soon to be resigning ...

How to Resign From Teaching - The Professional Way -- Jurinsthea Smith

There are many ways to pursue how to resign from teaching. Depending on the school that you are in, they have different procedures and methodologies. The whole process might vary; but nonetheless it ...

Finding Your Teaching Pal - Tips For First Time Teachers -- Dominic Bartalino

It's likely that you will find a veteran teacher that you feel comfortable around and who doesn't seem to mind helping out a rookie teacher that needs it. Even though you might find some ...

Classroom Seating Arrangements - Advice For First Time Teachers -- Dominic Bartalino

Where your students sit is just as important as which students you have. If you put a bad student next to a good student, the bad behavior might rub off on the otherwise well-behaved student. Also, ...

A Simple Teaching Strategy to Improve Comprehension and Spark Student Interest -- Adam Waxler

As a history teacher my students must deal with lots of opinions. As I tell my students, "There are not always right and wrong answers in social studies...what is important is how you back up, or ...

Use Needs-Focused Lessons to Reduce Classroom Management Problems -- Adam Waxler

If you want to reduce classroom management problems, make your lessons more interactive, more cooperative, more engaging and more FUN then you must try the "needs-focused" approach to teaching. The ...

Roundly Teaching Vocabulary in ESL Lessons -- Les Perras

In my ESL lessons, I teach vocabulary in a roundly. What I mean is, my students get the chance to learn both the meaning of the new vocabulary and how to use it. You might say to me, "Sure Les, ...

Don't Forget These Four Vital Components in Your ESL Activities -- Les Perras

When you make an ESL activity what are the vital components? I was reflecting on this the other day, and came up with a list of four for my activities. As I start to think about a new activity, I ...

Signs of Burnout in Teachers -- Jurinsthea Smith and Liane Carmi

Burnout in teachers is a cycle experienced by new and experienced teachers alike. No one is in fact spared from this type of quicksand that will trap you towards an impossible recovery. The worst ...

Convenient Part Time Jobs For Teachers - 4 Tips -- Jurinsthea Smith

With the current economic standing and global recession, it is no wonder that many instructors are looking for part time jobs for teachers. Teaching is indeed a noble profession, but on the other ...

Disruptive High School Students - Disciplining As a Friend -- Jurinsthea Smith

The toughest part a teacher can deal with is on disruptive high school students. Disciplining them is in fact one of the most challenging parts in a teacher's life. For one, they already have ...

5 Ways to Keep Parents Coming to Your Courses -- Robert Warner

Surestart Children's Centres aim to improve outcomes for children with the services that they provide. Some of these outcomes are achieved by working with the parents rather than the child - such ...

How to Create Your Own Educational Game to Make Your Kids Smarter -- Elizabeth Trineroni

Your little one is going to be starting school soon, and you want to make sure that your son or daughter sees learning as something fun and engaging. Creating some educational games that you can play ...

The 3 Areas Game Design Classes Need to Have -- Oliver Stewart

Remember Pacman and Pong? Today, the game has changed so to speak when it comes to new technologies and market demand for online video games. Over the past 20 years, video games have exploded into a ...

Character Education and the Accidental Teacher - Chapter 2 -- Elizabeth L Hamilton

Character education assignees often become accidental teachers, forced against their wills to make business trips into high moral value country. Out of their comfort zones, and working with ...

Character Education and the Accidental Teacher - Chapter 1 -- Elizabeth L Hamilton

Character education teachers are often forced against their wills to teach the subject. Like business people compelled to travel against their wills, character education teachers are sent to a ...

Five Ways to Improve Students' Pronunciation -- Joe DeVeto

Method 1. Teach English rhythm Rhythm is very important in English. Students struggle with the up and down rhythm of English sentences but if they practice speaking rhythmically, it not only helps ...

I Love Bullies -- Elsabe Smit

Yes, I do. Throughout my life I have had to deal with bullies. Some of my first memories are of my mother mistreating me physically and emotionally. I encountered numerous bullies as colleagues, and ...

Truth Revealed - Teachers' Confidence in Teaching and Students' Competence Has Connection -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

For a great teacher, never mediocrity be the stamp of his teaching. Students learn best when his teacher is authentic enough to teaching basic things in learning which would make his students learn ...

Get a Mentor and Soar High -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

No one is born as an expert, right? Even great persons in history were products of their great mentors. Plato the great philosopher in Athens, Greece in 387 B.C.E. had Socrates, same with Aristotle, ...

10 Secrets on How to Get Your Child to Love Reading -- Shawn Snyder

Are you aware that there is a crisis in the American educational arena today? That the children who live in the greatest super power country of the entire world are no longer the brightest nor the ...

The Benefits of Cooperative Group Work -- Rob Plevin

Here are five reasons why you must use cooperative group work in your lessons together with some creative ways of grouping your students: 1. There is less incentive for pupils to disrupt the lesson ...

Little Known Teaching Facts -- Erik R Johnson

Can you imagine a community without teachers or schools? Even in the most primitive or reclusive of jungles, you have teachers and mentors in some fashion or the other powering knowledge transfer ...

Dealing With Children's Bad Behaviour - The Secret is to Not Allow it to Happen! -- Liz Marsden

One of the best parts of my job in managing children's extreme behaviour problems is seeing adults in schools becoming increasingly confident in dealing with behaviour and managing kids who ...

How to Stop Getting Bullied -- Nabihah Zaid

Bullying is where someone is treated in an intimidating way by someone else or a group of people. If you are one of the victims of bullying, you might want to follow these easy tips to avoid being ...

Want to Stop Bullying? -- Nabihah Zaid

First question: You think you're a bully? A bully is someone who is habitually cruel and intimidating, especially to smaller or weaker people. They can be rather scary and a pain to a lot of ...

Bullying - Why it Happens -- Nabihah Zaid

Bullying: What is it? Bullying is when someone or a group of people treat someone else in an overbearing or an intimidating manner. Whether it's you the one bullying or you the victim of bullies, ...

Building Community in Your Elementary Classroom - Sing, Sing, Sing -- Jennifer Ruth Russell

Singing 3 minutes a day will bring out the best in your students. Singing shapes and builds a healthy sense of community in the classroom and throughout your school. By singing songs, your students ...

Classroom Management Tips - Dealing With the Noisy Class -- Rob Plevin

Here are four useful strategies to help deal with the class that just won't settle: 1. Allow some cooling off time of a few minutes after transitions and breaks to allow them to settle. Use this ...

Teachers Mold the Future -- Faizan Tahir

When planning to start a career as a teacher it is important that one look deep inside herself. She becomes attuned with the good, the bad, and the ugly. She learns the positive as well as the ...

Emphasizing Adjectives and Adverbs -- Maxim Achkasov

English language is exceptionally good at describing things and actions. If you’re still in doubt about that, then find some time to look through some of the emphasizing adjectives and adverbs that ...

Biodiversity in a nutshell -- Robin Day BSc MSc BEd

This article is a summation for teachers interested in the subject Bio-diversity in Boreal Newfoundland-Labrador, Temperate Canada & Tropical Forests. (published in The Osprey Magazine Oct. 2009) ...

Tips on graphs descriptions in preparation for the ESOL tests -- Maxim Achkasov

This is a brief introductory material, given in a form of notes, for those who are in the process of preparing for any international English language exams that include writing tasks dealing with ...

Mainstreaming Teachers - Is Help on the Way? -- Joel B.

It's no secret that in this day and age of 'No student left behind' and the Individual Education Plan (IEP) for special needs students, we all want to achieve the best education possible ...

Turning a Fun Lesson Into a Successful Lesson -- Rob Plevin

Having a fun classroom and teaching a fun lesson isn't enough to stop behaviour problems, and it isn't going to miraculously transform your challenging students into hard-working, diligent ...

Improve Classroom Management With Consequences -- Rob Plevin

"I'll tell you exactly what they need... a bloody good clip round the ear!" This was the response of a taxi driver recently when I told him I was on my way to a school to discuss how to improve ...

Effective Classroom Management - Getting Pupils to Follow Your Instructions -- Rob Plevin

When we are put in stressful situations the directions and instructions we give out to pupils who are causing problems us are often very unclear and impulsive. As such they virtually guarantee ...

Kids and Their Behaviour - Beware, Praise is Negative! -- Liz Marsden

Another 'barking' comment? Am I mad? PRAISE IS NEGATIVE -- don't be so stupid... everybody knows praise is good and kids need plenty of it... don't they? Well, yes, praise is good. ...

Preschool letter games – creative, fun and affordable preschoolers activities -- Megan Wong

The term literacy means knowing how to read and write. There are two types of literacy – visual and media literacy. Visual literacy Children are surrounded with visual images in the form of ...

5 Secrets to a Successful Teaching Career -- Jennifer Dobson

Teaching is a profession unlike any other. It is a way of life, a passion and a calling. Teachers do not just teach in a classroom, they are teachers everywhere. Every child is a student and every ...

Four Study Habits Tips -- Charles F Waters

Good study habits are essential to the success of students at any level of education. It is just as important for a fifth grader to learn and implement good study habits, as it is for an older person ...

Six Study Habit Tips For Students -- Charles F Waters

There is no secret to being a good student. The content taught at the elementary, high school and most college level courses can be successfully passed by most students who are willing to put in the ...

Why I Am a Selfish Teacher? -- Shannon Philpott

Before I was a parent, I never bought into the line "this hurts me more than you." If I was getting grounded or disciplined, how in the world did it pain my mom more than me? But, as an instructor, ...

Accent Reduction Tips for Pronunciation -- relaxandspeak

Accent Reduction Tips for Speaking Clearly 1. Slow down your speech by lengthening the vowels in words. Practice setting the pace that is within your comfort level. Chances are very good that others ...

Brain Activity -- Bettina Hansel

I've been writing frequently about emotional responses to sensory experiences and how this relates to intercultural learning. Recently I came across an online course at Open University* about ...

12 Ways to Eliminate Monkey Business in the Classroom -- Susan Fitzell

Much of what we are about involves finding ways to reach ALL kids and involve students in the leaning experience. If students are involved and engaged in learning, they won't be as likely to ...

Kindergarten Games For Creative Kindergarten Learning -- Maegan Wong

All children love to play kindergarten games. They are fun, engaging and develop motor skills. What about creativity? Do all these games involve the child in developing their creativity skills? ...

Fun Games - Playtime is Essential For Child Development -- Maegan Wong

Every kind of play is a learning opportunity for child development. Playing fun games is one tool parents can use for child development and the absence of play can be an obstacle to the development ...

12 Surefire Ways to Focus Your Class and Increase Learning -- Susan Fitzell

Johnny walked through the classroom door late. I took one look and thought, "Whoa! He didn't take his meds today!" Before he made it to his seat in the front of the classroom, he had touched four ...

Stop the Fidgeting -- Charity Preston

Being an observer in a classroom can be extremely enlightening or extremely frustrating. Students can be engaged in learning or engaged in what they are currently playing with in their desks. ...

Lesson Planning - The Art of Organization -- Charity Preston

Lesson planning can be an art form, if done properly. For too many teachers, lesson planning can be the black hole of a week - taking several hours out of planning time. Or leaving no planning time, ...

Types of Technology Used in the K-12 Classroom -- Charity Preston

There are many types of technology that can be used in the K-12 classroom today. Our future classroom has become the present. Many items you might have heard about or seen, but not used. Maybe others ...

Teaching English As a Foreign Language - Frequently Asked Questions -- Rosana Hart

If you are thinking of teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) in a non-English-speaking country, no doubt you have questions. What's it really like to do this? Here are some of the common ...

10 Creativity Tips for Teachers of ESL -- shelley berc

10 Creativity Tips for Teachers: An Inspired Teacher is an Inspiring Teacher 1. Believe in your moments of inspiration. Follow where they lead. 2. Carry a notebook and pencil everywhere you go. We ...

How to Be a Great Teacher - 10 Steps to Successful Classroom Management -- C.D. Watson

An educator's ability to teach effectively is directly proportionate to their ability to control their classroom -- this is one thing I am absolutely certain of. It does not matter whether you ...

Securing a Teaching Career -- Candace

If you have just finished college and have received your teaching degree, or are currently a professional not in the teaching field and you want to transition into teaching then read on. The process ...

A Look at the Possibilities of Role-Play and Drama for ESL -- Shelley Vernon

ESL role plays and skits are real and fun Many ESL teachers fear making plays and skits a part of their curriculum. Yet children absolutely love being given the chance to make-believe and indulge in ...

Preschool: Toddler Innocence or Wisdom? -- Deanna Mascle

Innocence: It is an absence of guilt; harmless; freedom from evil; lack of worldly experience; not recognizing the harmful intentions of other. This is the definition of innocence according to the ...

Learning To Read: Reading Tips for Parents of Preschoolers -- Deanna Mascle

Inspiring your child to read could be the single most important thing you can do to help him succeed in school. Stories are an excellent way to stimulate the mind and expand the imagination for all ...

The 7 Best Study Skills For ESL Learners -- Susan Thomason

Studying English as a Second Language is difficult. Whether you are doing homework, going over notes, or studying for a test, good study skills will help you get the most out of your time and effort. ...

Getting To Know Your Students Can Be Fun - Here's How. -- Honey Krumholz

It's vital that teachers get to know what their students are like and vice versa early in the school year. Its also important for classroom team building that students new to each other get to ...

Classroom Design Strategies That Motivate Your Students -- Honey Krumholz

Your classroom layout, displays and decorations are important to help motivate and stimulate your students. A classroom that is comfortable, friendly and colourful, creates a very positive learning ...

Dual Language Education -- E.K. Garcia

In the midst of multiple international conflicts, an interwoven global economy and the shrinking nature of our techno-driven world, language learning can no longer be considered an elective subject, ...

Multicultural Education In Your Classroom -- E.K. Garcia

America has always been referred to as a melting pot, but ideally, it's a place where we strive to invite everyone to celebrate exactly who they are. As the US population is becoming increasingly ...

Going Green In Your School/classroom -- E.K. Garcia

In support of growing environmental concerns, the federal government and many states are funding green schools. Many of these eco-friendly schools are experimenting with everything from solar and ...

Seven Thanksgiving Activities for Your ESL Class -- Jane Wangersky

1. Give them a Thanksgiving quiz– not for marks, but just to see how much they know about the holiday. You can find Thanksgiving quizzes online – you may have to simplify them, or write your own. ...

Classroom Management - How to Keep Your Classroom Organized -- Melanie J.

There is an abundant variety of teacher supplies to help you keep your classroom organized. Teacher supply stores are a great place to look for ideas and items that will help you achieve your own ...

Festive Fall Classroom Decorations - Top 5 Decorating Tips -- Melanie J.

Early educators know that classroom decorations are a fundamental part of the education experience for their students. Cheerful fall decorations help to illustrate the changes occurring in nature as ...

Why Children Need Active Playtime -- Melanie J.

Educators know that children need active play in order to develop naturally and be physically healthy. Sadly, more children than ever are considered to be obese, facing the danger of developing ...

7 Helpful Tips For Preventing Teacher Burnout -- Melanie J.

Teaching young children is a rich and rewarding career. However, beware the signs of burnout: grumpiness, fatigue and even depression may catch you unaware. The following tips may just save your ...

How to Improve Teacher-Parent Communication -- Melanie J.

Teachers, and especially first-time teachers, strive to improve upon their communications with parents. As a cornerstone of your students' education, it is essential to involve the parents and ...

Fun Classroom Bulletin Board Ideas For Fall -- Melanie J.

Your classroom's bulletin board is an intriguing focal point that plays an important part in educating and exciting your students. These creative ideas for fall bulletin board sets are not only ...

Top 10 Delightful Daycare & Preschool Activities -- Melanie J.

As a daycare provider, it is important to have a long list of activities that your children enjoy, as well as plenty of daycare supplies, such as art supplies, toys and games. Active play is ...

Important Daycare Safety Tips -- Melanie J.

When you manage a daycare, it is important to choose daycare furniture and daycare supplies that are designed to keep children safe - while making your job easier. Daycare Furniture: Safety ...

4 Tips For Successful Classroom Management -- Melanie J.

The first week of a new school year brings with it all of the excitement and challenges of how to implement a successful strategy for classroom management. Successful classroom management should ...

Bringing Fall Into the Classroom With Inspired Projects -- Melanie J.

When the crisp wind begins to blow the leaves off the trees, it is time to think about collecting natural materials for fall classroom decoration. A short field trip to the park or even just outside ...

Create an Ocean Floor - Sand and Water Table Activities -- Melanie J.

Sand and water play can be made even more interesting by introducing a theme like creating an ocean floor. Invite the children to imagine an ocean floor and to think of some items they might find ...

6 Helpful Tips For First Year Teachers -- Melanie J.

Your first year of teaching will likely be full of trials and errors, as well as healthy doses of uncertainty and innocence. The following tips are meant to help guide you through some of the ...

Formal Education Makes You a Living -- Phalbon Im

Looking back in life, when you were five or six years old, your parents enrolled you in a public or a private school in your town. Whether you liked it or not, you had to attend school. You learned ...

Respect and ESL Classroom Management -- Shelley Vernon

Respect is a two way street A large part of ESL classroom management starts with respect; and that is a two-way street, where you respect EACH OTHER. Management of disrespectful children is difficult ...

Teachers Are Insane - Let Me Tell You Why -- Liz Marsden

I'm telling you that you're insane, eh? How insulting... well yes, but actually you are... and not angry but insane, deranged. What am I talking about? Ok, I'll tell you. I talk to ...

Behaviour Management Diary - Jimmy's Story 1, An Ongoing Case Study -- Liz Marsden

My work informs and advises on effective behaviour management strategies to enable schools to cope with(and more importantly prevent) difficult and challenging behaviour. I decided to take this a ...

Teaching Tips For Teachers - Keep Your Content Fresh -- Betty B Miller

Keep your content fresh. By including something relevant from the news, it helps connect the students to the learning. Using real life examples goes a long way. Give extra credit to students who ...

Back to School Tip - How to Increase Parent Involvement -- Adam Waxler

Ok...it's back to school time! Whether you go back to school next week or in a few weeks, it's time to start gearing up for the upcoming school year. And, just like the beginning of every ...

Teaching Tips For High-Level Questioning -- Adam Waxler

Teachers ask hundreds of questions a day so it is important that they use questioning techniques that challenge the thinking of ALL students. Here are five teaching tips for high-level questioning: ...

Best Practice - Establish a "No Putdown Rule" in Your Classroom -- Susan Fitzell

Class rule: No putdowns, no exceptions... not by students or by the teacher. Mat and Rick walk into the classroom putting each other down jovially. Friends, they often banter with each other for fun. ...

Experience As the Teacher -- Susan Fitzell

"How are skills learned? By experience. How, then, are they best taught? By coaching. I, the teacher, can tell you rules for writing -- grammar, forms of felicitous phrasing, types of argument. I can ...

A Dozen Sure Fire Ways to Boost Memory in A Diverse Classroom -- Susan Fitzell

Do you have students who have difficulty remembering information for tests? Most teachers do. Here are a dozen sure-fire ways to boost memory in your diverse classroom: Provide visual clues. Create ...

12 Ways to Respond to Students Needs While Making Progress Together -- Susan Fitzell

When students in your classroom are not progressing at the same rate or better as their peers, supplement their learning with researched based strategies that increase achievement. These are also ...

The Best Tricks to Make Your Middle School Students Happy -- Ann Bidle

Making a middle school student happy sounds like an impossible job, best left to someone with super powers. In my experience, it can be as easy as 1-2-3. The first trick to getting your middle school ...

Resistance to Learning - What is It, and How Do You Avoid It? -- Dr. Rose Gamblin

Resistance to learning is when an individual, who is supposed to have learned something, didn't learn it, and now refuses to learn it. What causes students to resist learning? Just as there is ...

Teaching 1-On-1 Classes -- Sharon De Hinojosa

Teaching private students can be a great way to earn a bit of extra money. It can also be great to work with just one student and see their progress. Money can be an issue when teaching private ...

Teaching a Child ESL - 6 Methods to Get Through to Students Learning ESL -- Kelvin Nikkel

Teaching a child ESL can be a HUGE task, whether teaching ESL one on one or in the classroom setting. Especially when taking the language barrier into consideration. Sometimes it is easy but other ...

ESL Games - The Benefits of Games in Your ESL Lesson Plans -- Kelvin Nikkel

Teachers have turned to games now-a-days in order to try to supplement their ESL classroom lesson plans. Their reason for doing so is to add to the lesson in such a way as to benefit the students ...

ESL Teaching Jobs - 10 Important Things to Consider When Deciding on an ESL Job -- Kelvin Nikkel

ESL teaching jobs are a dime a dozen but there are 3 very important questions you should be asking yourself before and while you are performing your search for the perfect ESL job. There are also 7 ...

The Courage of a Teacher -- T. J. Lashley

Sometimes we don't include, nor categorize the teaching profession as a profession that calls for courage. In fact, it takes a marvelous courage to be a teacher and it is important to remember ...

The Importance of Homework -- Sharon De Hinojosa

Mention homework and you're sure to elicit a couple of groans from your students. The problem is that often teachers assign long, unnecessary, useless exercises for homework. Look at the ...

Dealing With Parents -- Sharon De Hinojosa

If you teach children or young adults, you should also get to know their parents. It's important for them to see the progress their child is making and be able to help them (whether with ...

Make Halloween More Fun - Quality Educational Activities For Kids -- Sue Gnagy Fegan

You might make Halloween more fun by sticking a pumpkin sticker on a worksheet or using a ghost shaped bookmark to keep track of independent reading and plopping some decorations around the ...

Testing and Assessing Students -- Sharon De Hinojosa

Although tests and an exam are a necessary evil of classes, there are things that you can do to make them easier for both you and your students. Only test what you have taught. This includes the ...

Teaching Grammar -- Sharon De Hinojosa

While students may dread grammar, more often than not they want grammar explanations as to why X is correct and Y is not, especially older students. Grammar doesn't have to be difficult and ...

Using Videos and Movies in Class -- Sharon De Hinojosa

Using videos in class can be a great way for even lower level students to pick up new vocabulary and expressions. Below you'll find some activities that can be easily used with videos. One thing ...

Dealing With Difficult People and Tricky Situations in the School Environment -- Janice Davies

Sometimes they creep up on you or other times they jump into your life. You are grating your teeth and feel like hammering the computer to get rid of the anger you are feeling after encountering a ...

How to Be a Better Coach or Teacher - Tips From the Students Perspective -- HyunSoung Kim

Coaching or teaching can be a really hard thing but in the same time it can be simple. There are fast tips which can help in any every situation, it is same in this case. If you know how the other ...

The Do's and Don'ts of Virtual Teaching English -- Brooke Schoenman

The lives of the world’s teachers and students are changing in this technological age, taking work and study in a whole new direction. Imagine sitting completely on the other side of the globe from ...

The Teaching Profession - A Challenging Yet Rewarding Job -- Erika Ayala

Teaching is indeed a very challenging job. It is because the welfare of your students are in your hands and it is your responsibility to instil knowledge in them. Yet, no matter how demanding the ...

Classroom Management Plan - The Best Way to Gain the Respect of Your Students -- Stephen Bradford

Students have changed greatly in the last few decades. There was a time when teachers were revered and respected. These days teachers must gain the respect of their students. By having an effective ...

Classroom Management Plan - Developing a Classroom Management Plan -- Stephen Bradford

Teachers that start the year off with a classroom management plan will be more apt to having a more controlled classroom than those that do not have a clear classroom management plan. The way I have ...

Help Your Child to Read and Write Better -- Steve Thornton

Phonics: The relationships between letters and sounds. Phonics Checklist: When we speak, we join sounds together to make words which all people that speak our language have an agreed meaning for. We ...

Top 12 Ways to Motivate Students -- Annie Condron

If there is one thing we know about kids, it's that they have short attention spans and prefer now to later. Teachers, more than any district or schoolwide programs, have the most power to ...

How to Make Feature-Length Films Fit Into a Class Period -- Tom DeRosa

Let's assume you already have a film in mind that illustrates main ideas you desperately want your students to learn. How do you go about making it fit comfortably into one class period, since ...

School Survival - 10 Tips to Survive a Disaster -- David W Simmons

If you are a school teacher and a disaster such as an earthquake, tornado or fire strikes, then your first priority must be school survival. Even though the chances of any of these events happening ...

Rearranging Your Classroom - 3 Tips For Teachers at the Beginning of the School Year -- John M Pearson

Unless you are the most meticulous of teachers and have contacted past teachers, former landlords, parents, friends, and old librarians, chances are that you don't really know your students on ...

Classroom Management Tip - Always Use This Power Word -- Michael Linsin

In his two excellent books, The Psychology of Influence and Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways To Be Persuasive, Dr. Robert B. Cialdini describes several experiments that prove overwhelmingly that ...

How to Combat Back to School Blues! -- Leah G

Not all parents get anxious and stressed as the new school year approaches, many feel a sense of relief as they found the holiday period hard going. Not least because of trying to sort out childcare ...

For the Love of Teaching -- Gini Cunningham

Back-to-school is here again. Excited little dumplings are donning new clothes and fancy shoes, brushing hair into fancy, eye-catching dos, loading backpacks with each essential supply, and then ...

What Makes a Really Good Teacher -- Jacques Sprenger

There is a common belief among people not involved in public and private education that a teacher's main function is to teach reading, writing, maths and sciences, both hard and social. While the ...

Helping Parents to Become Allies in the Education Process -- Monica Elsesser

It is a well known fact that positive and enthusiastic parental support is crucial in successful education of the child. The school can provide the best environment, state of the art materials and ...

Teaching Requires a 36 Hour Day -- Gini Cunningham

When I say 36-hour day I do not just mean that you are going to be so busy with lessons and learning responsibilities that you need to pack more minutes into each day, teachers teach all of the time. ...

Tips for Accent Reduction and Improved English Pronunciation -- Lead Trainer

Accent Reduction Tips for Speaking Clearly 1. Slow down your speech by lengthening the vowels in words. Practice setting the pace that is within your comfortable level. Chances are very good that ...

The Non-Traditional Student - Why They Call it a Degree -- Byron Edgington and Mariah Edgington

I turned 61 in July. The other day I sat in an admissions office to return to school. Going to finish my college degree after, oh, roughly three dozen years of 'off campus study', otherwise ...

Launching Your Teaching Career Part 3 - Rules and Procedures -- Gini Cunningham

Are you feeling great about the excellent progress you have made as you prepare for that first, enchanting day with real students in your own classroom in your dream job? You may also feel tired - ...

Classroom Control - It's #1 -- Gini Cunningham

Disregard the fact that I left formal classroom teaching four years ago, I still wake up some nights in a panic about an out-of-control classroom of swarming junior high students who are blabbering ...

Launching Your Teaching Career Part 2 - The Perfect Classroom -- Gini Cunningham

After spending hours memorizing and internalizing the standards for your subject area(s) and grade level(s), you may have decided that driving a sewer pump truck may not have been such a lousy job. ...

Launching Into Teaching Part 1 - Policies, Standards, and Textbooks -- Gini Cunningham

Hundreds and thousands of bright, eager teachers are about to descend upon classrooms throughout the nation. There are few pleasures greater than a first job after a long period of study and ...

Classroom Teacher Advice -- Scott Penrith

After many years of service as an educator, and having traveled and taught in the USA, UK, China and Australia, there are several defining factors which contribute to an effective classroom teacher. ...

Writing Tips For the Back-to-School Essay -- Gini Cunningham

Summer days are melting away as school bells prepare to chime. Three months of festivities have quickly vanished, but more fun and learning are about to unfold. A favorite back-to-school topic for ...

Four Methods of Teaching Students to Spell -- Chuck R Stewart

Teaching someone to spell can be rather difficult and challenging. Traditionally vocabulary quizzes and memorization were the methods many educators chose. Today, with increased technology and access ...

New Teacher, Lots of Energy, No Jobs? -- Tania Mesar

As a new teacher, we come out of teacher's college rearing to get out there, applying all the skills we learned in teachers college, and have an impact on the lives of students that we mentor and ...

How to Teach Your Child to Read Using Phonics -- Lynne Hunt

The first and most important thing to remember when teaching phonics is that children need to know what sound each letter makes within a word. It is important not to add on the 'uh' vowel ...

Rule 2 For Elementary School Teachers - Teaching is All About Learning -- Susan Guerrero

How did someone like me end up an educator with a book on the rules of teaching and learning? It's really only natural. I have always been a student and even now at the ripe age of 92 (if you ...

Elementary Teachers - Make the First Week of School Stress Free -- Honey Krumholz

Teachers, do you know how to get ready for the new school year and then what to concentrate on that first week? Many teachers get stressed out just thinking about it, because it's important to ...

5 Essential Parent Teacher Communication Methods You Must Use -- Honey Krumholz

In the best interests of their students, teachers need to work hand in hand with parents and build a strong and supporting relationship with one another. Developing effective communication strategies ...

Why Should We Encourage Educational Children's Books? -- Albertin Abelmont

Educational children's books impart knowledge and values through the stories they tell. Books for the young have evolved significantly over the years. There was a time when books which were ...

Vocabulary and Reading -- Uros Drnovsek

The vocabulary gap can have a serious impact on your child's learning experience, especially beginning in the fourth grade. James A. Duplass, author of Teaching Elementary Social Studies, ...