Articles for Teachers

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, ...

USING LOCAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH OR TRANSLATIONS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH -- S.Elangovan

USING LOCAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH OR TRANSLATIONS FOR TEACHING ENGLISH Professor Dr. S. Elangovan P.T. Lee Chengalvaraya Naicker Engineering College, Oovery. Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu State, India. ...

Hard to Teach Children -- Cheryl J. Koonce

"Why do you teach?" "If I had to teach those kids I would hurt someone." "How do you do it?" I have heard these comments throughout my teaching career. I hope I am not different than any other ...

Students, Take Charge! -- Cheryl J. Koonce

Well, it's back to school in just a few weeks. Are you ready? Whether you are a teacher or a student you are probably having mixed feelings. Summer is never long enough and yet at the same time, ...

Work Refusers! Here's Help to End Your Continuing Classroom Management Hassles -- Ruth Wells

Every teacher, every counselor, every principal knows youngsters who won't do their work. Some of these work refusers often fail to show up. When they do show up, they often say little, and some ...

A look at teaching English Pronunciation to ESL Students -- Shelley Vernon

Teaching English Pronunciation to ESL students Many English teachers avoid teaching pronunciation, not because it is not necessary, but because they have little or no information on the subject. ...

Sexual & Cyber Bullying on Oprah - How Kids Can Fight Bullies, Depression & Suicide -- Paul Davis

Success secrets for kids to be victorious over sexual & cyber bullying. Tips for kids to fight bullies, depression, suicide and a poor self-image. Oprah's national conversation on sexual & cyber ...

Two Popular Ways to Organize a Classroom -- Alycia Shapiro

Preparing a classroom each fall can be exciting, but also a little overwhelming. If you are a new teacher or have been teaching for several years, new ideas are always helpful. One of the main ...

Five Fun Educational Programs That You Should Download -- Justin R Williams

Five Fun Educational Programs This is a list of five educational programs that can be a lot of fun. Educational programs aren't just for kids, people of all ages can enjoy these programs and ...

Tutoring English for Adult Students -- Charlot

Useful tips from a Writer and a Teacher--Prof. Eric Roth How do you effectively teach English to a struggling private student? What will you actually do for 60-120 minutes together? How will you ...

Need to Teach Culture in English Classroom -- Dr. Khalid Al-Seghayer

Need to Teach Culture in English Classroom Dr. Khalid Al-Seghayer alseghayer@yahoo.com “In teaching language, cultural insights are bound to be transmitted automatically.” “Students learn ...

10 Ways to Score an "A" -- Marianne Barnhardt

There is no set answer to a perfect test score, but there are many strategies which will improve your study habits and test taking skills. By using some of the tips below you will find that you are ...

Teaching For Success - What is Homework? -- R. Chris Wilkins

Homework is an integral part of the learning process, and is a fundamental key in helping our students prepare to become independent learners. This in turn is imperative in our technologically ...

Teach For Success - Assess While You Teach -- R. Chris Wilkins

Ahhhh, yes! To be a teacher. What a noble thing to do. I will stand up in front of my student(s) and let them hear my erudite and elaborate explanations about how the universe works, and they will ...

Teaching Children With Video Games -- Ken Durham

It is often reported that video games can have a negative effect upon children and increase violent tendencies. But I do wonder, do video games really have this impact or is it not just another ...

Different Teaching Methods -- Chuck R Stewart

Teachers use many different tools to test their student's proficiency. They use exams and chapter or unit tests. Many teachers also give a weekly vocabulary quiz over specific words. Some ...

The World is Moving So Fast - What Should We Teach? -- Lance Winslow

Technological advances, and the forward progression of mankind is moving at such a rapid pace it's hard to decide what to teach those who graduate from high school and go on to college to get a ...

Working with Foreign Cultures -- Tracey Wilen

Culture Cultures differ in how they communicate, how they use their time, and how they view themselves in terms of empowerment and decision making. These differences are likely to become apparent in ...

Teaching Business English With "Big Numbers" -- Dave Volek

"Big Numbers" puts pre-intermediate level (and higher) English learners into a numbers exchange activity. This module is actually quite easy for both the learner to engage with and for teacher to ...

The Secrets of Good Parent - Teacher Communication - A Brief Handbook For Teachers -- Judith Acosta

The Difficulties Teachers Face Besides the obvious challenges of classroom management, curriculum development and ever-increasing mounds of paper work, teachers often have to face the difficulty of ...

Teaching Conversational English - Commonsense Tips -- Rowan Pita

There are over 508 million learners of English wanting to learn how to speak naturally. With online learning and the ability to connect live with native speakers, there will be many opportunities for ...

First Time Teaching English - What to Do? -- Lucy Pollard

You've decided to teach English, maybe you want to tutor in your own home and don't know how to start. I'll give you some ideas here for your first class. I'll give examples relating ...

Make Extra Money at Home - Become a Private English Tutor -- Lucy Pollard

If you want to make some extra cash, try working as a private English tutor. You just need a few books, some knowledge and a quiet place to do it. It could be in your home or in your students' ...

ESL Teaching - Is it For You? -- Travis Waack

Would you like to teach English to foreigners in your country or travel to another country to teach? Many young people consider such employment advertisements with great interest since the position ...

50 Tips on Motivating Students -- Teacher

1. Know your students and use their names as often as possible. 2. Plan for every class; never try to wing it. 3. Pay attention to the strengths and limitations of each of your students. Reward the ...

Tips on Grading Class Work -- Tiffany Provost

Teachers know their work isn't done at the end of the school day. Assignments still have to be marked. If you want to make your life easier and take back some of your day after you've ...

Teaching Your Class Longitude and Latitude -- Tiffany Provost

Latitude and longitude are basic geographical terms needed to find positioning on a globe or map. As a teacher or a parent helping out with homework, these tips will help you teach latitude and ...

Running a Successful Class Debate -- Tiffany Provost

Debating is a skill for students which will benefit them for years to come. The debate teaches us on how to argue and make any reason on and beyond the points. If there is a contentious issue in your ...

Tips on Leading a Group Project -- Tiffany Provost

The leader is the key factor in the results of a group project. As long as you provide great leadership, it's a sure bet your group will develop an outstanding project. A leader who hesitates is ...

Tips on Studying For Final Exams -- Tiffany Provost

Final exams are almost here; have you been preparing? Consider these suggestions on how to study for a final. Take a short amount of time to re-examine your readings. Going back over readings that ...

Tips on Taking Class Notes -- Tiffany Provost

You'll be required to take your own notes in class - professors will give away handouts from time to time but this does not give you an open pass to avoid taking notes. It can seem insurmountable ...

Finding School Teacher Jobs - It's Easier Than You Think -- Bart Rutherford

Searching for school teacher jobs can be a challenging, and daunting, experience. How do you find them? Where do you start? But, if you are interesting in earning a living as a teacher, there are ...

How to Get a Teaching Job - 3 Important Steps -- Bart Rutherford

Would you like to know how to get a teaching job? Well, it's really not that different from getting any other kind of job when it comes to the basics. But if you want to become a teacher, and you ...

Dealing With Late Assignments -- Tiffany Provost

Even though you give students a deadline for submitting an assignment, some students will not turn in the assignment on time. You've got to at least consider the late assignment for marking. But ...

Our Best Hope - Great Teachers -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

Without somebody who can make us feel safe, confident and competent in life, we are at a loss. We really need someone--a mature guide-- to help us realize our own dreams, and believe in us as well. ...

Kindergarten 101 -- Patricia Tatum

Here's a peek at a list of things your child should know before leaving Kindergarten. This list is merely scrapping the surface. There's at least 90 more things your child should know before ...

Typical Lessons Don't Always Work -- Sharon Liston

Reaching students has been a mystery for a long time. Teachers teach many lessons throughout the day. The lessons they create take time, hard work, and at times are quite extensive. They expect ...

Top 4 Public Speaking Tips from a Psychotherapist -- Peter James Field

The fear of public speaking is considered to be the most common fear in both the USA and the UK today. Here are my top tips for successfully speaking in front of others: 1. Do not look at yourself as ...

Guidelines for New English Teachers - What is PPP? -- Gill Hart

PPP stands for Presentation, Practice and Production and is a prescribed standard lesson format for many EFL teachers. It is commonly used as a basis for a lesson plan and its principles are taught ...

TEFL, TESL and TESOL - What's the Difference? -- Gill Hart

If you are thinking of becoming an English language teacher (ELT) to foreign students then you may be confused with the many acronyms of the profession. If you decide to take an English teaching ...

Does Your Kindergartener Need Tutoring? -- Heather Eagar

When you think of your little five- or six-year-old, you typically don't assume that their first day of kindergarten might eventually result in needing tutoring assistance. "The work is so easy," ...

Understanding Education in The Environmental Field -- Philip Badeau

There have been a lot of changes in the education field and schools are offering new and different courses to keep up with the times. The way in which classes are taught and the types of technologies ...

5 Tips For How You Can Learn More -- Deanna Mascle

There are a number of reasons why we should be lifelong learners. Continuing education reaps us professional, personal and health benefits that are too numerous to list. However if you do not want to ...

Ditch the Homework! -- James Krehbiel

According to educator Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth, multiple educational studies have found that contrary to our currently accepted thinking about schooling, "all empirical evidence ...

Calling All Teachers - Praising Your Students the Right Way -- John F Smith

Teachers dream of becoming the best that there is. They want their students to learn in the best way possible. They want to create a bond between them and their students in order to effectively teach ...

Teachers - Vocabulary Development - Create Mystery Boxes -- Meggin McIntosh

An article in Reading Teacher a few years back (2004, pp. 766-768) presented the idea of creating 'Literacy Mystery Boxes.' The idea is to put together a box with various items that represent ...

Ten Tips to Be a Better Teacher -- Cashmere Lashkari

There is always a good teacher behind a good class performance. The trainer has the responsibility to make the class and subject interesting to the students. The fact that you hate Math or love ...

What Makes an Effective Teacher - Do You Have What the Traits? -- Trevor Johnson

Teaching someone in a sense can be challenging. On the other hand learning can be more difficult. If you are a teacher trying to enhance your skills, a parent raising your child to build character, ...

Four Great Classroom Management Ideas You Can Use Now to Turn Your Fallen Angels Into Shooting Stars -- Constance Turner

Every teacher has their own unique approach to the management of their classroom. What I have found invaluable is borrowing ideas from my colleagues that are totally new to me or that enhance my own ...

Private Schools Vs Public Schools - Top 5 Reasons Why Private Schools Are Better Than Public School -- Oscar Barillas

Since the times of the Jesuits, private schools have typically outperformed public schools both educationally and with prestige. Although there has been a long debated political and social debate ...

What's Your Classroom Management Plan? -- Constance Turner

Every teacher has their own classroom management plan, from bribery to "no smiling until Christmas". It took me my full first year of teaching to build and feel secure within my own plan, this is ...

How to Manage Elementary School ESL Classes -- Bill Ralens

Classroom management is one of the most difficult aspects of being an ESL teacher. First, there are the cultural differences of what methods and punishments are appropriate. There is also the ...

ESL For Kids - Three Simple Tips to Teaching Bliss -- Bill Ralens

Out of all the jobs I've had, I'd have to say that teaching EFL (English as a foreign language) is my favorite. And out of all the EFL stuff that I do, my number one favorite classes are EFL ...

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: ...

End the Special Education Year With Action -- Catherine Whitcher

It's the end of the school year and everyone has spring fever. The management of classrooms becomes tough and getting children to bed on time and out the door is even tougher. Teachers and ...

Always Try to Know and Work With Students of Different Ages -- Raymond Ko

I always encourage the freshmen and sophomores to take junior and senior classes, so that they can have more opportunities to meet and talk with the older students, who have studied in college longer ...

Teacher Perfect Classroom - Key to Maximum Learning -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

Learning is fun, fun, fun. Yes, if the following are present, coupled with a very good teacher who knows how to elicit responses from learners towards remarkable learning: Teaching-learning materials ...

Admitting That Teachers Are Not Perfect - Learners Tend to Learn More -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

The more the teacher pretends that he is good, the worse the result of his teaching is. More so, if he is not that good in acting out, the so-called-- expert. What now is the best way of handling the ...

MEDITATION FOR QUALITY EDUCATION -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

If food is to body, meditation is to mind. Time runs. We short out so many problems in the field of education which are very difficult to coup up. The problem may be of child, teacher, subject, ...

WHAT A CLASS TEACHER CAN DO? -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

Now-a- days it is heard that the class teacher faces so many problems & denies to take the load of class teacher ship which as he/she accept it a job of burden. Is it really the work of hardship? If ...

DEALING WITH SLOW LEARNERS -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

A very big problem that every school faces, i.e. the difficulty to deal with the slow learners. The teachers have their big headache over these children. Handle them in homework & class work, ...

PLAYING ROLE IN CLASS -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

SOMETIMES I go beyond the thought of mere syllabus completion & think for a solution for the students about to give a new method of learning so that they will not feel bore & try to accept my class ...

14 SIMPLE POINTS TO MAKE A CLASS MAGAZINE -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

Class teacher plays a very important role in shaping the life of the children. He is the role model before the children. The innovative class teacher always creates new things within the children & ...

TEACHER,DO YOU SMILE? -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

Smile plays a very important role not only in the boundary of the school but also even in the outside world. Smile is the expression of love. It's the magnate, which pull all towards it. As every ...

TEACHERS’ROLE IN DE-STRESSING EXAMINATION -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

When a child is asked about ‘the greatest fear' in his life, his eyes give prime attention to the Examinations. Examination - may be it is weekly or term-end but fear automatically creeps in to ...

EXPANDING TEACHER'S REAL BELLY -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

Foundation has already been led by getting a job as a teacher. That's not the end but the initiation to a dedicated and committed area. Now, the pace is not to stop in that level just as a ...

SHOULD A CHILD BE FAILED? -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

If the recently introduced Right to Education Bill becomes law in India, both the private and government schools will not be allowed to force a child to repeat a year or expel students until class ...

SHOULD TEACHER SPEAKS TRUTH TO HIS BOSS? -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

Controversies and confrontation arises when a teacher speak lie to his boss and do something of his personal. It may be very bad to hear but it's true. When this comes to the knowledge to his ...

AREAS OF EXPANSION FOR TEACHERS -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

Foundation has already been led by getting a job as a teacher. That’s not the end but the initiation to a dedicated and committed area. Now, the pace is not to stop in that level just as a ...

SOME EFFECTIVE METHODS TO TEACH WELL -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

Take your subject to an inspiring & interesting arena where the students will do something & involve themselves fully which will result in the excellency of the children, popularity of both the ...

LET’S UNDERSTAND TEACHERS -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

A teacher uses his mind very gently to speak some creative words to the children so that the children not only understand the topic very easily but also get the reflection of their life philosophy ...

ARE YOU A CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHER? -- Harekrushna Behera - Teacher in Social Science

("Teacher's job is not to teach, but to find the ways & circumstances of learning for the students." Here the author focuses on the personality & spiritual characteristics of teacher which can ...

How to Become a Confident Teacher -- Trevor Johnson

Teaching is a very noble profession. Not all people in the world are talented enough to share their knowledge with others. Hence, we need teachers to do the job for us. However, this job is not as ...

Five Classroom Behaviour Management Tips -- Constance Turner

At some point in every teacher's career, they will have that one class or even that one pupil who makes a knot of dread build in their stomach. It was exactly the same for me. My first year of ...

How Teachers Are Making English Lessons More Exciting -- Mike Selvon

One of the biggest challenges that educators face is keeping students interested in the work. The solution to this is to make the lessons more interesting and applicable to those who are learning. ...

My Dream School -- Maritza

We live in a very complex fast paced challenging society. Attitudes fostered and encouraged are aggressiveness and “It is me and all about me.” Be first and win at any cost seems to be the norm. ...

Using Differentiated Instruction Activities to Meet the Needs of ALL Your Students -- Adam Waxler

I am always amazed at the range of ability levels of my students within any given class. Within one 8th grade class I may have students who struggle to read and write while at the same time have ...

Effective Classroom Management is Difficult When You're Angry! -- Adam Waxler

As we approach the end of the year it is common to see a spike in classroom management problems as many students have a tendency to think the school year is over before it actually is... Of course, a ...

Engagement--A Preemptive Strike Against Classroom Misbehavior -- Amber Wilson

Engagement—A Preemptive Strike Against Classroom Misbehavior A classroom teacher has many weapons in her arsenal to fight classroom disruptions and misbehavior. Like many classroom issues however, ...

Improve Spelling -- Stuart Ackerman

When you meet someone, you get a 'first impression' by their face, attire, and mannerisms. All of these cues enable you to develop a 'pre-judgment' of the person before getting to ...

Homework Help -- Stuart Ackerman

It is simple to search the internet for homework help tips. Most tips, though somewhat helpful, assume that your child is willing to sit down and simply get to work. Most homework ideas revolve ...

Temper Tantrums - Four Tips For Ending Temper Tantrums -- Martin Laritz

Dealing with your child's temper tantrums can be one of the hardest things to do. If you know these simple tips, you will be better prepared to handle the situation, and you will be better ...

Interpreting Report Cards -- Stuart Ackerman

In order for a student to learn, he must have the proper 'learning skills'. Report cards differ from state to province to country. Most report cards contain a section called 'learning ...

Effective Teaching and Learning Strategies -- D Meetoo

Here are some of the teaching strategies a teacher should use in his class · Cooperative learning or group work · Discovery or guided discovery learning/ Active learning · Expository learning · ...

Great Teachers Are Today's Heroes - Find Them -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

A new teacher is faced with daunting tasks. One, is the personalities of his/her students. Varied and all, he/she needs to put him/her-self on the shoes of students in order to understand them well, ...

What Role Does Drama Play in Education? -- Carolynn Rogers

Watch young children. What are they very often doing when left to their own devices? That's right - play-acting. It seems that drama play comes naturally. Kids "play house", pretending to be ...

ESL and EFL Students and the Differences Between Them That Are Useful For a Teacher to Know -- Shelley Vernon

ESL students are usually residents of a country where English is the predominate language, whereas EFL students live in a non English speaking country, but wish to learn English for business or ...

Tips to Always Be Prepared in the ESL Classroom, No Matter What -- Shelley Vernon

It can be a minefield out there for a teacher in the ESL classroom! That lesson plan that seemed so brilliant the night before turns out to be on a parr with watching paint dry as far as your ...

Be a Successful Substitute Teacher - Some Sound Advice -- Stephen Carr

I worked as a substitute teacher for over 10 years. It can be a rewarding experience, as well as a nightmare. What you do and how you handle situations can be the difference between life and death! ...

Ten Ways That Teachers Can Make a Lasting Impression -- Stephen Carr

Teachers come in all shapes, sizes, backgrounds, and colors. But what are some common threads that make some outstanding teachers and others just mediocre, forgettable educators? 1) Be there- If you ...

An Effective Trick to Improve Classroom Discipline -- Stephen Carr

New and experienced teachers will tell you that without classroom discipline, you cannot teach. Unfortunately, there are no books or programs to really help with this aspect of teaching. The best ...

Creating Positive Classroom Environments -- Hassan Hussein

In order to teach everybody's children, classroom teachers must create powerful learning environments that support varied instructional approaches and give students different ways of interacting ...

Using the Internet to develop reading skills, Part 3 -- John Erskin

In my last two articles, I discussed the use of the Internet as a platform for reading activities for students learning English as a second or foreign language and how to plan and develop reading ...

Networking Tips For Students -- Kerry Finch

The importance of networking in maintaining and advancing your professional career cannot be overstated. For those looking for ideas about how to expand the reach and strength of your network, here ...

Teachers - Set Boundaries in Your Professional Life -- Meggin McIntosh

Where are your "edges" or your "boundaries?" Where do you draw the line? Do you? A boundary is "something that indicates or fixes a limit or extent" (Merriam-Webster). As a teacher, you need to ...

ESL Vs Bilingual Teaching -- Amy Nutt

Despite what it might appear at first glance, ESL (English as a Second Language) and bilingual teaching are quite different. They both involve learning English, but this is where the similarities ...

Classroom Management Problems? You Need a Classroom Management Plan -- Adam Waxler

If you're still having classroom management problems then you need to establish some type of plan. There is no one simple trick that will solve all of your classroom management problems, but if ...

Will Teachers Be Replaced by Technology? -- Jeanette McLeod

In the last 15 years, the use of technology in schools has changed beyond recognition. From just one or two computers per school, to 'computer suites', to current day, where some schools ...

Good Study Habits For Students in Any Level of Education -- Veronica M. De Escobar

If you are a college student, high school student or in elementary school you still need good study habits in order to perform better and succeed in school. Good study habits for students start at ...

Learn Good Study Habits to Improve Your Grades and Become a Better Student -- Veronica M. De Escobar

In this article you will learn good study habits and how to implement them in your current life at school. It does not matter what level of study you are in right now or the type of student you ...

My Favorite Part of Teaching an ESL Class - Taking Attendance -- David Cramer

Many teachers have a tough time with taking attendance in their ESL classes. The names are all foreign, difficult to pronounce and difficult to understand when students say them, and a room full of ...

How to Be an Entertaining ESL Teacher -- David Cramer

When I started teaching English my students often complained that my classes were boring. Most beginning teachers get those kind of complaints. It actually took me about a year and a half, even close ...

Twelve Tips to Help Your Struggling Student -- Julie Rebboah

Is your student bringing home grades that do not reflect his level of intelligence? Is your child complaining about not liking school? Talking about school being boring? Having difficulty finding ...

Class Meetings -- Kimberly Olver

Class meetings should be held regularly and not simply be used for addressing problems, although problem solution is a valid use of class meeting time. The purpose of class meetings is to increase ...

Teaching Kids to Think Creatively - Seven Activities You Can Do at Home -- Dr. Linda Silbert

If left to themselves, children are creative--often more creative than we are. However, it seems we've created an environment for children that doesn't allow for much creativity. Lots has ...

Report Card Time - Find Out Teacher's Style Before Reacting to Comments -- Cammie Moise

Thank goodness teachers have different teaching styles, because our children benefit from these differences. It helps them realize that all relationships and communication styles are unique. For ...

Dealing With the Roommate From Hell -- Joe Sinop

So you've finally graduated high school and have been accepted into college. It's now the beginning of august and you have already attended freshman orientation were you had your snazzy ...

Teacher-Students Interaction: An Evaluation of an EFL Classroom -- M. Enamul Hoque

Introduction According to Powell, "He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough." Classrooms are social settings; teaching and learning occur through social ...

Teacher Exchange - Why a Teacher Exchange and Online Business Goes Hand-in-Hand -- Tania Mesar

As a teacher, there are so many opportunities for us to travel, work, change locations, take time off, and experience new endeavours. A great opportunity for all teachers is to participate in a ...

Don't Be Too Certain -- Karen Pesta

Is certainty more dangerous than doubt? I asked myself this question as I watched a history channel program titled Nostradamus 2012. The entire program featured writers certain that an unprecedented ...

The Best Way to Teach Character -- Karen Pesta

Recently I saw the movie Slumdog Millionaire. At the heart of the movie was the theme of a yearning for love. The main character the orphan boy Jamal found his love connection with Latika another ...

The Best Life Lessons - Teaching Character -- Karen Pesta

Many schools embrace some sort of character education in an effort to curtail discipline problems. The hope is for students to stop and think how they would feel in difficult situations and use that ...

Empowerment - The Power to Create -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

Imagine the world if nobody ever dared to do something: we would be groping in the dark, existing as if just to breathe and nothing more! What is now the difference between us and the animals roaming ...

Afraid of Criticism? Say Nothing, Do Nothing, and Be Nothing! -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

Because we always want to be praised than to be criticized, we always shun to do mistakes for the belief that we become a butt of jokes of our colleagues and the like--if we make a blunder or two. So ...

4 "Powers" To Stay Happy On The Job -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

In the job market with tens of thousands seeking for a job these days, you should know that having one is a thing to consider that you are indeed lucky! So before you grope for your pen to write a ...

How to Develop Your Child's Speaking and Writing Skills -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

Yes, if you want your child develops fluency in speaking and writing, what better way there is than to immerse him to a rich environment where the language-- which you want him to learn-- is used. ...

Global Teachers - The World is Flat -- Larry Icabandi Nabiong

Gone are the days of barriotic thinking, Jurassic way of doing teaching reading to our learners, etc. With the floodgates of information have been opened since the advent of technology, the internet ...

Tips For Getting Better Grades in High School -- Marko Frakel

If you are planning to go for traditional high school or choose any online program your main goal is to learn new things. In today's competitive environment learning is not only your target. You ...

ESL Phonics -- Eric K Dolan

I've found that the main issue with a lot of people teaching ESL phonics is that they seem to make more mistakes than some of the other commercially available phonics programs. Some of ESL ...

Developing Reading Activities Using the Internet -- John Erskin

A: Planning As with all learning activities, careful planning is required in order for the activity to be successful. When planning Internet activities, you should first begin by determining the ...

Teaching Struggling Readers -- Billings Farnsworth

Teaching struggling readers is not an easy task. Readers may struggle for any number of reasons including lack of practice and reading difficulties caused by problems beyond their control. With ...

Disruptive Student Behavior - Getting an Understanding -- Cindy Chung

Behavior is generally termed disruptive when it disrupts the teacher's plans, upsets other class members, or in some way disturbs the process of teaching and learning in the classroom. In other ...

How to Eliminate Bullying - 3 Simple Steps That All Staff Members Can Implement -- Billy Simms

If a school campus is serious about eliminating bullying, all staff members must be involved. This includes administrators, teachers, para-professionals, cafeteria workers, custodians, and any other ...

Success at Substitute Teaching -- Caroline Mackay

In the movie Kindergarten Cop Arnold Schwarzenegger is advise to not show any fear when he enters a classroom of kindergarten students to teach them. That is key to substitute teaching. If the ...

Snowball Fights in the Classroom -- Caroline Mackay

Any teacher with at least one months experience has had an assignment that the students just didn't get. The reasons that the students didn't get it could be any number of things: 1. They ...

Natural Born Teachers -- Caroline Mackay

It really astounds me that with the economy going the way it is that many people are retiring early and thinking that they will become teachers now because, anyone can do it. Well in my opinion they ...

12 Things Parents & Professionals Must Understand About Educating Students With Autism -- Nicole Beurkens

Working with parents and educators for over a decade has taught me some important lessons about what it means to provide a meaningful education to students with autism and other neurodevelopmental ...

Live And Learn Direct - Why It Is Fundamental To Keep Your Desire To Learn -- Deanna Mascle

Fundamental reasons to keep your desire to learn. Have you ever thought upon how key learning is to your life in terms of your ability to not only survive but also to thrive both professionally and ...