Setting Up Your Classroom: 9 Practical Things You May Not Have Thought Of
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Getting your room ready for the school year can be extremely exciting. It’s also a whole lot of work. There are books to prepare, desks to arrange, decorations to create……The list seems never-ending. What we need to focus on most, though, is functionality. Yes, it’s great if […]
Continue readingThe Teacher Success Roadmap
Come on, pull it together. If you lose your lunch meager breakfast in front of your class …. Well, that will be a doozy of a first impressionIt’s 5 till 8 on my first official day as a teacher, and I’m trying desperately to calm my nerves. But despite the cacophony of butterflies in my […]
Continue readingAn Easy Way to Grade Writing Quickly
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Nothing spells guilt like a 4-week old stack of neglected, ungraded, sad-looking student essays sleeping on your kitchen table. Now I know that YOU would never let your grading pile up for one month, but let’s just say I have a “friend” who used to routinely dump […]
Continue readingHow to Finish the School Year Strong
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Dear Teacher, I know you’re tired. You’re stressed. You’re about to stab a pencil in your eye if you have to grade one more paper. Your to-do list is a mile long. And summer is so close you can taste it. But in the midst of all the […]
Continue reading7 Review Games that Won’t Waste Your Time
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast Can we play a game!!?? If your students are anything like mine, you hear this question about a million gazillion times a week. In the whiniest voices possible. With the clear undertone that if you don’t we are going to make you regret it!!! And while I love […]
Continue readingHow to Flip Your Classroom: Your Biggest Questions Answered
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. We were only 30 seconds into class and I was already panicking.Where is their homework? Did none of them do it?Their empty desks taunted me, predicting the misery that was to follow.Nine.Out of 23 students, only 9 had their homework done.Not good.just slightly panickingI pushed down the […]
Continue readingHow to Finally Get Your Students to Understand What You’re Teaching
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. 52.The class average for the last test was a 52.You stare in horror at the computer screen wondering how this could possibly have happened!! This is not good. You explained. You reviewed. You reminded them 1,352 times to “for the love of all that is good, please […]
Continue reading9 Ways to Help Failing Students
0 shares Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Please, not again! You’re starting to panic (just a little) as you grade Veronica’s latest test. She’s been struggling, but has been making some progress, and you’re desperately hoping this test reflects that. But it doesn’t look like this paper is getting a smiley face. Instead, […]
Continue readingHow to Make Homework Valuable & Hold Students Accountable
Click here for more information about the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast I stared in amazement and more than a bit of frustration at the crumpled, ripped half sheet of computer paper with 10 random answer scrawled on it. This was “Greg’s” homework. Or rather, it was supposed to be. At least Greg had turned something in, […]
Continue readingSimple Solutions to Track Missing Work: End the Missing Work Confusion
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 simple solution. But I do have some tried-and-true […]
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