How to Motivate Struggling Readers
Teaching reluctant students? Wondering how to motivate struggling readers? Keep reading. In today’s post, I’m sharing some of my favorite ways to connect and encourage students to read when they…
Holiday Classroom Management Tips for Secondary Teachers
Wondering how you can maintain better control during the exciting seasons? Keep reading for three important holiday classroom management tips for secondary teachers. When you picture comfort and joy of…
Reading Anxiety: The Problem with Calling on Students to Read Out Loud
Are you in tune with your students’ phobias? The fear of snakes, the fear of spiders, the fear of dark places, the fear of small spaces….the fear of reading out…
Teachers, You Don’t Have to Use a Textbook
Textbooks….to love them or to lose them? Twenty-first century teachers are privy to many changes in the educational system. Textbooks are one of them. As teachers across the country – even…
Why Students Cheat on Homework and How to Prevent It
One of the most frustrating aspects of teaching in today’s world is the cheating epidemic. There’s nothing more irritating than getting halfway through grading a large stack of papers only…
Summer Slide Prevention: 9 Tips for Creating Literacy-Rich Environments
Trying to prevent the summer slide? Read about nine tips for creating literacy-rich environments at home during the summer, or any time of year! Teachers can support parents by educating…
5 Common Classroom Management Issues in High School
Whether you’ve landed your first teaching job, you’ve been in the classroom a few years, or you’re a seasoned veteran, certain classroom management issues rear their ugly heads every year….
16 “Classy” Decor Ideas for Your Secondary Classroom
Decorating high school classrooms can be challenging. When you’re trying to find a good balance between meaningful, age-appropriate, and professional, the answer isn’t always obvious. Still, it can be done….
Teaching Literary Genres: Lesson Planning Ideas
The actual word “genre” is rarely referred to in the Common Core Standards. Even so, explicitly teaching literary genres is beneficial at all grade levels. Unfortunately, many high school curriculums…
Meaningful Final Exam Review Sessions
When I first began teaching high school, I had no idea what to do with final exam review time. Was I supposed to reteach or review? How many days should…
Teaching Summer School? Here’s How to Design an Effective Curriculum
Looking for inspiration for an effective summer school curriculum? Keep reading for practical ideas. If you’ve ever taught summer school, you know that there aren’t any hard and fast rules…
Poetry Activities: Six Simple Ways to Make Poetry Instruction Engaging
So you have to teach poetry, and you’re not excited about it. Try these engaging activities to spice up poetry lessons in middle and high school.
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