These are my handpicked favorites on this blog, my “best of” list, if-you-will. Great posts happen on many blogs but usually get lost right quick. In a world where a blog post can die in a day, I think these deserve another chance in the spotlight. I hope you enjoy them.
- Ah Yes, the Topic of Cursive
- On Teaching Without Paper, or Less Anyway
- Common Core and Collaborative Groups
- What Students Need from a Teacher
- Reflections on the Reflective Teacher
- Classroom Expectations – Take Your Time, do it Right
- Concept Development
- Special File for Student Notes and Creations
- Small Growth is Still Growth
- Trophies in the Classroom
- When Kids Don’t Answer
- Teachers Who Create, Innovate, and Integrate Add Value
- Goals Help Solve the Riddle of Setting up a Classroom
- The Power of Believing in Your Dreams
- 3 Things to Ask in a Parent Teacher Conference
- Suggested 3 I’s of Education Reform
- What Does it Take to be a Teacher?
- One on One Attention for Difficult Students
- Activate Prior Knowledge
- The W.I.N. Philosophy
- The Challenge of Making Your Not-so-Favorites Your Favorites
- Importance
- Monetary vs. Non Monetary Rewards in the Classroom
- Backwards Mapping for Planning Instruction
- Music in the Classroom – In Some Strong Hearts
- ¿Que? When Language Barriers Get Funny
- Guided Practice
- Backward Map Review – A Great Way to do Test Prep
- Parent Conferences Tip – Listen to Parents About Their Child
- Look at it Differently, or Where I Managed to Put the Bookshelf
- Three Areas of Student Assessment – a modest proposal
- The Written Behavior Log – A Win/Win/Win
- Learning Objective
- The Best Behavioral Strategy is a Dynamite Lesson Plan
- Classroom Design – Less is More
- Kids, Choices, and Consequences
- Closure
- 3 Tips for Teacher Success When Starting Their Career
- Teaching Tips for Classroom Behavior Management
- Is Homework Always Helpful?
- The Organic Teacher vs The Robot
- 3 Classroom Behavior Management Techniques that Deliver
- Create Your Own Sport – A Small Groups Classroom Project
- What I Want for Public Education (as a Parent & Teacher)
- Value of a Pacing Guide
- Goal Based Teaching and Focus
- Staying Healthy and Inspired as a Teacher
- Three Tools You Can Use to Make Effective Lessons
- Tip for Improving a Professional Teacher Evaluation
- Teachers and Public Image
- Kids are Like Sponges: Use Stories to Teach Them
- Teaching, Inspiration, and Rock ‘n Roll
- 5 Altruistic Values of Teaching
- My Solution to the Copy Machine Conundrum