Beginning Teachers Chatboard

Feb 24, 2016

Teaching kids that there’s value in not giving up...

How to teach the value of diversity by Leah Davies

Feb 10, 2016

Children’s identity and self-respect are related to how others treat them, and ultimately to their future success...

How can administrators and staff help children value diversity? [Click below to access the article.]

Timers: A Simple, Powerful Motivation Tool - Susan Fitzell

Feb 9, 2016

When teachers employ technology in education, like using device-based timers in their classroom, something amazing happens. (Click below to access the brief article.)

The way you motivate students makes a difference

Feb 7, 2016

In his short article on motivating students, Dr. Marv Marshall writes:

A very important difference between the two types of motivation concerns building characteristics and values such as integrity, kindness, generosity, caring, perseverance, and responsibility.

Click below to read the brief, but important, article.

Mid-Year Reorganization Strategies to Teach Your Students

The second semester should be a “second chance” for students, specifically, a chance to improve on their first semester performance. Very often, we as teachers tell our students to “Get organized!” A better way to help students to improve their performance, grades, homework completion, study skills, and organization skills is to teach them ...See More

Jan 10, 2016

Counterwill: The Most Misunderstood Teacher-Student Dynamic

Jan 6, 2016

Although adults experience this phenomenon, we seem to be surprised when we encounter it in young people.

3 Ways to Provide Support,Scaffolding to Struggling Learners

Dec 29, 2015

One of the key aspects of instruction for struggling learners is the support and scaffolding we provide.

K-W-L: The Ingenuity (and Radicalism) of K-W-L

Revisiting the Ingenuity (and Radicalism) of K-W-L – Learning as a Sandwich - By Alfie Kohn

K-W-L in its own right is one of those nifty practical ideas that teachers can pick up quickly and start using the following morning, probably explaining why it became so popular. But, like other teaching strategies that are deceptively radical in...See More

Nov 23, 2015

7 Things You Don’t Let Students Do, But Should

Nov 22, 2015

7 Things You Don’t Let Students Do, But Should

"I don’t worry as much as I did before. I worry less because I let my students do more stuff than in the past. Here is a list of 7 things that I currently permit my students to do that I would never have allowed as a first year teacher."

Help! This is SO discouraging...

by Caileigh

Oct 5, 2015

Hope it's OK if I post here... I have a friend who is a newly certified teacher in her first job. She was SO EXCITED, thinking she'd finally found her place. She's teaching middle school science and is having a horrible time, mostly with discipline & kids just not paying attention. To make matters worse, about half of her kids aren't fluent in ...See More

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Nicole Sorry I cannot offer any advice hopefully someone in the group can. Only thing I can say is she has to keep trying to find away to connect to her students. Pinterest has great ideas, and also as other teachers whom are not in her school. Does she have a mentor teacher who can offer advice?

On 10/05/15, Caileigh wrote: > Hope it's OK if ...See MoreSorry I cannot offer any advice hopefully someone in the group can. Only thing I can say is she has to keep trying to find away to connect to her students. Pinterest has great ideas, and also as other teachers whom are not in her school. Does she have a mentor teacher who can offer advice?

On 10/05/15, Caileigh wrote: > Hope it's OK if I post here... I have a friend who is a newly > certified teacher in her first job. She was SO EXCITED, thinking > she'd finally found her place. She's teaching middle school > science and is having a horrible time, mostly with discipline & > kids just not paying attention. To make matters worse, about > half of her kids aren't fluent in english - add in the stresses of > poverty and cultural differences, top it off with the fact she's > SO soft-spoken... > > She is so discouraged. Most of the other teachers have just > given up, so they're not any help. She loves science and is so > excited about teaching - or at least she was. I've been > scouring the net for help, but I'm not even sure what to look > for (and I've read so many great articles with wonderful ideas, > but just aren't applicable to her situation) - so I thought > finding a community of actual teachers (as opposed to articles > & other 1 sided things) might be it. > > Any advice will be GREATLY appreciated. Maybe specific sites > to look at? Some brave soul who might be willing to be a > virtual mentor would be amazing. Even little words of > encouragement I could pass on to her would be wonderful. > > Katrina was one of my Girl Scouts - timid, painfully shy, > brilliant and very sweet - watching her slowly morph into the > brave, committed, caring, dedicated, still-painfully-shy-but- > I'm-not-going-to-let-it-stop me adult has been wonderful, > and now she's one of my best friends. She's been struggling to > find her niche in the world, and was so excited at having found > it in teaching. I ache for her, but I just don't know how I can > help her. > > Thanks for listening to me babble on...

Oct 5, 2015

Math Teach A good reference book would be "Middle and Secondary School Classroom Management" by Carol Weinstein. I used this as a reference for a paper I wrote for a new teacher program in my state.

On 10/05/15, Caileigh wrote: > Hope it's OK if I post here... I have a friend who is a newly > certified teacher in her first job. She wa...See More

Oct 5, 2015