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10 Years of Teaching: How Do I Keep My School Administration Happy?

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:50:35 GMT

Five years ago, I wrote a series of seven articles called “Questions That Will Save Your Career” that still remain among the most visited articles on this site. When I wrote those, I had successfully completed my 5th year in education. This summer, after 10 years, I am revisiting some of these older concepts. Today, I revisit How Do I Keep My School Administration Happy?

How Do I Keep My Students Quiet?
How Do I Keep My Students Engaged?
How Do I Keep My Students Interested?
How Do I Keep My Students Learning?
How Do I Keep My Students Away From Me?
How Do I Keep My School Administration Happy?
How Do I Keep My Sanity?
10 Years of Teaching:

A Thought and a Cartoon for Your Friday

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:49:19 GMT

I hope everyone has had a good week. Hopefully some of you reached a few goals this week. I didn’t reach all of mine, however, I did make a lot of progress. I posted a few cartoons from Andertoons to bring a smile to your Friday.

I’m posting about Mark and his cartoons to remind us to not find ourselves caught in the “one way” to be successful and sort of dismiss those students that don’t go that way. Now Mark is a smart guy, not only because he has a degree in music (like me), but because he had a plan to do one thing with his life and ended up making his hobby his livelihood. Isn’t that what many of us are doing/want to do? I’m not saying this to get you to quit teaching, I’m saying this to remind you (and me) that the dreams of our students are important. Now Mark is doing what makes him happy everyday. Let’s not quench those things our students do that isn’t purely educational. Be sure to check Mark and his blog out!

Have a Good Weekend,

Charles

Energizing Brain Breaks

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Have you ever seen this sign in the road? Give'em a Brake. Every time I see it I think of the fact that we as teachers need to give our students a break. We teachers often feel like we can't afford to give our students a break. We need to get through the material. How many times have you said this? As a student my brain has never picked up things in long drawn out segments.

Energizing Brain Breaks gives students a break in the midst of concentrating intently which will help boost their efficiency. Not only this, but it will also give them something to look forward to everyday as well as help them to laugh and smile in class.

You can find all of the brain breaks at his blog featured here, I've started doing some of these in my classroom since it is block schedule and students need a break between sections of learning. Below is a YouTube video that I found shows the dynamic of Brain Breaks.

http://brainbreaks.blogspot.com/

A positive Bulletin Board!

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:46:38 GMT

What’s a better welcoming than a positive bulletin board to greet the new students. “Smile you’re in Grade 2 A” is my bulletin board idea for this year. I wanted to put something positive and happy. I added a few quotes about smiling as well.

Here are the quotes that I put up:

Greet your students with a positive attitude and make them feel comfortable for the upcoming year! SMILE!

Unexpected Things Can Make You Cringe, But More Importantly, They Make You Smile

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:14:16 GMT

The last week and a half have really opened my eyes to what going to and teaching in an urban school setting is like. Unlike many of my friends, who are also education majors at Penn State, I was given this opportunity, first hand, to create my own opinions and thoughts on this type of [...]

Encouragement

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:15:00 GMT

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Welcome Ever Smiles

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:58:00 GMT

Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.
(William Shakespeare)

Power of a Simple Smile

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:36:00 GMT

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. (Unknown Author)