20 Questions to Help You Get to Know Your Students
Wish you understood your students better? Here’s twenty questions that will help you get to know them. Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. We all know how important strong relationships are to successful teaching. But in order to build strong relationships, we need to understand how our students think and why they make […]
Learn More7 Tips to Reduce Chaos During Classroom Transitions
Are transitions chaotic in your classroom? Discover a simple key to smooth transitions – and practical tips to make it happen. Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Transitions can be crazy, can’t they? You take twenty seconds to set up your computer for the next activity and suddenly the whole class is in […]
Learn More20 Student Choice Ideas that Share Control without Losing It
Giving students choices can help them be more engaged and responsible for their own learning. But how exactly should this work? Let’s explore twenty student choice ideas – and tips for how to share and delegate control without abdicating it. Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. I’ll be honest. When I first heard […]
Learn MoreHow to Keep the Noise Level Down During Independent Work Times
Keeping an appropriate noise level during independent work can be a huge challenge. In this episode, we discuss seven tips to keep kids quiet and focused during these times. Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. It’s independent work time and your students are hard at work – for about two minutes. Then you hear […]
Learn MoreThe 7 Bad Habits of Ineffective Teachers
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. Think back to when you were in school – did you have any teachers that were just, well, to be honest, bad teachers? Or maybe there are some teachers you know now who are just simply not that effective. It’s certainly not our job to point fingers […]
Learn More10 Things to Do Before School Starts
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. If you’re anything like me you simultaneously don’t want summer to ever end while also growing increasingly excited about the prospects of a fresh new year. But the reality is that the first day of school will be here before you know it, and when it comes, […]
Learn MoreThe Tiny Mistake That Could Ruin Your Whole Year (And How to Avoid It)
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. As I prepared for my first year of teaching, I was extremely excited. In fact, excited barely does my feelings justice. I just couldn’t wait. I’d be dying to teach for as long as I could remember. So I got my room ready, prepared my lesson plans, […]
Learn More4 Magic Words That Will Cut the Arguments in Half
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. It was a great day when I discovered 4 magic words that just seem to dissolve tension and eliminate at least half of the arguments in my classroom. And those words are: “You’re not in trouble.” Students can be so defensive, can’t they? (and let’s be honest, […]
Learn More4 Questions to Know When to Give Grace as a Teacher
Subscribe to the Teach 4 the Heart Podcast. One of biggest challenges in teaching is finding the right balance between grace and consequences. Most of us tend to lean more to one side than the other. Some tend to be strong on consequences to the point that they are afraid to show mercy when it’s […]
Learn MoreSimple 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 […]
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