How to Help Your Students Choose a Growth Mindset

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Play to the Strengths of Each Type of Learner in Your Classroom

As teachers, we recognize that not all students learn at the same rate, and it can be difficult to navigate your way through the different types of learning.Many children struggle to learn from textbooks, but you can utilize a variety of different activities in your classroom to help bring out their strengths rather than navigate […]

6 Ways to Build Rapport with Struggling Students: An Interview with a C- Student Who's Now a Professional Portrait Artist

Sometimes the student who doesn’t seem to care is actually just frustrated. This is one of my favorite takeaways from my interview with portrait artist Jon Kardamis. To say that Jon struggled in high school would be putting it mildly. History, math, and English just did not come easily to him. But he loved art. […]

5 Easy Accommodations for Special Ed or Struggling Learners

Thanks to Alexx Seipp, Customer Experience Manager here at Teach 4 the Heart and creator of Genius Fishes for contributing this article. Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Differentiation, universal design for learning, accommodations, and modifications are huge buzzwords in teaching right now.Many districts are moving away from special education classes and putting […]

Simple Solutions to Track Missing Work: End the Missing Work Confusion

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Tracking & collecting missing work may just be the bane of many teachers’ existence. It can be so hard to keep everything straight & incredibly frustrating trying to hound students to get it turned in. Aside from simply throwing zero’s in the gradebook and moving on, there’s no […]

8 Ways to Help Students Prepare for Exams

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Cumulative exam time can be pretty intimidating for students, especially when they have one in every class. And for teachers, preparing kids for exams can be a bit of a balancing act. Not only do we have limited classroom time, but we also need to determine just […]

Why You Should Grade Homework (But Not How You Think)

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. There are quite a few different views about whether or not homework should be graded. Some say absolutely not; others definitely yes. And still others choose to just give a completion grade but not grade the work itself. I suppose I’ve actually fallen into all three camps […]

8 Ways to Prevent Cheating

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Cheating seems to be such a prevalent problem in our schools today. And it doesn’t matter what type of school it is – public, private, Christian – it’s something that’s happening. And it’s probably happening in your classroom. Don’t think anyone’s cheating in your classroom? Well, as […]

Should Spelling Count?: A Creative Solution

Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Should spelling count? Every teacher has asked themselves this question – and heard its cousin question “Does spelling count?” from students about a million times a year. It’s not the simplest question to answer. Over the years my own ideas have swung from one end of the […]

7 No-Stress Tech Tools to Make Teaching a Bit Easier

Teachers often find themselves under a volley of technology: “Use this! Try that!”Sometimes, figuring out a new tool is merely another stressor. But every so often, practical, simple, and timesaving tools come along.These platforms and apps make my life easier. 7 No-Stress Tech Tools for Teachers1. Planbookplanbook.com Like many teachers, I’ve spent entire weekends trying to navigate […]

How to Help Your Students Choose a Growth Mindset

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford Our mindset is powerful. So powerful that it can affect our future. And that’s why having a growth mindset is so important.If you’ve been paying attention to new trends in education you’ve probably heard the term growth mindset quite a few […]

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