teaching advice
Valuing Time
One piece of last month’s 5-Day Teacher Challenge was to plan to attend a student’s activity. As any teacher who does this knows, it means something powerful that you would take your time to see Read more…
The 5-Day Teacher Challenge
Day 5 – Logistics
The people that make a school work well are driving buses, delivering food in the cafeteria, answering phones, sweeping floors after hours, etc. You can also find people in your community willing to help you Read more…
The 5-Day Teacher Challenge
Day 4 – Professionalism and Collegiality
How often do you engage in creative brainstorming with other teachers? If the answer is somewhere between “not much” and “what is this ‘brainstorming’ of which you speak?”, then it may be time to find Read more…
The 5-Day Teacher Challenge
Day 3 – Delivery
You can have the strongest lesson plans of any teacher who has ever walked the planet. Still, if the students aren’t paying attention, you’re not an effective teacher. While the students’ willingness is obviously significant, Read more…
The 5-Day Teacher Challenge
Day 2 – Assignments and Assessments
I’m guessing that if we had meaningful data about such things, we would see that not nearly enough assignments generate truly creative and fun responses from our students. Time to see what we can do Read more…
The 5-Day Teacher Challenge
Day 1 – Rapport with Students
When students trust that you are someone who is genuinely interested in them, and not someone paid simply to be in the classroom, they are notably more likely to put forth effort when you ask Read more…
The 5-Day Teacher Challenge
The 5-Day Teacher Challenge is about to begin!
Can thousands of teachers improve what they do with simple ideas, and have some serious fun in the process? That would be a yes. Over the last few weeks, friends from around the world have Read more…