Guest Blog Post The field trip is a staple of elementary education, and it’s easy to see why. From the educator’s standpoint, taking the students out of the classroom for a day allows them to fully engage with a subject and learn visually in a museum, cultural, or wildlife setting. It provides the opportunity to [...]
Classroom Management Strategies
By: David Moadel Lee and Marlene Canter’s Assertive Discipline has withstood the test of time as one of the classic texts on classroom behavior management. After reading the book, I can easily see why it is still utilized by so many educators as a guiding force in their classroom management systems. This book provides teachers, [...]
Teachers that structure lessons minimize student boredom and increase the chances that practical subjects are greeted more favorably by students. This process doesn’t mean we can’t structure classroom-based lessons effectively to make them more appealing. It is vital because most disruptive students can’t handle unstructured time. If your lessons aren’t packed with appropriate, exciting tasks [...]
Reading the ways teachers can use humor is worth reading and learning to ignite fun in the classroom. As you know, people who are having fun and feeling good are less likely to disrupt lessons, so for this reason alone, humor and fun should be integral to your teaching. Humor does not only make people [...]
Teachers need to communicate they have solid classroom management skills in the job interview, including providing examples of success stories. Classroom management questions in the teacher job interview will be among the most important job interview responses you will give in a teaching interview. Maintaining a well-behaved classroom is one of the most crucial elements [...]
