As a teacher, you don’t just want your students to acquire knowledge. You also want them to grow up emotionally mature. Here are some benefits of social-emotional learning in the classroom.
Incorporating social-emotional learning in class creates a more...
Burnout is more than having a bad day once or twice. It’s ongoing anxiety. It lends an undercurrent of stress to everything you do, and if you’re not careful, it could compromise your work and personal life.
If you teach and you’re constantly stressed to the...
There’s no end to what you can learn, and that applies to your classroom management techniques. If you’re looking for a way to improve engagement in class and you want to get more participation and more excitement out of the students, start checking out books. Here’s what...
What is my principal thinking?
She can’t be serious!
There is no way this is going to work.
Her plan will fall flat.
We can’t sit idly by and watch this happen.
This won’t be good for kids.
Who is going to tell her? Huh? Who?
Me? You want me to tell her?...
By Dr. Douglas Green
During the pandemic, after students returned to school, I observed a move toward personalized learning in the elementary school in the district where I independently observe.
I believe that this effort resulted in near-normal learning gains for almost all students in this...
As teachers, we value work/life balance. It makes us better practitioners.
At work, we:
We...
In a Facebook group I’m part of, fellow teacher Jeralicia Crooms posted, “Many of our districts force us to accept late work. We’re not ‘allowed’ to hold students accountable. How do we make that work?”
It’s a common sentiment: we...
By Dr. Doug Green
In New York State, a certified administrator from a different building must observe each teacher at least once a year. This started about six years ago—thanks to the thinking that too many insufficient teachers received good evaluations from principals who were their...
At the end of the school year, many of my colleagues are inundated with late work and appeals for extra credit. But because my students have learned to value the process over grades, I have no late work to assess and no requests for extra credit.
Even with summer...
I’ve heard it called an epidemic.
I’m talking about the amount of missing work at the secondary level. It truly defined the beginning of the school year. Teachers returned to the classroom excited to be back with students, try out new ideas, and engage in the type of...
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