Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesdays - The Table of Contents
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Below you find the tips in the order they have appeared on my blog. If you have been following this series, you will notice that tips 29 through 37 are new. I scoured my posts for teaching tips that predated this series and added them to this list. I hope you will find them useful if you have only recently discovered this blog.
and below that you will find the tips grouped by theme. I hope that you will find this series of posts useful in your classroom.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, or would like to write a guest post for Teaching Tip Tuesdays, please leave me a comment below, send me an email, or get at me on Twitter
1. Teaching Tip Tuesdays begins
2. Student Numbers
3. Day Plans
4. Keep it at School
5. Supply Plans
6. Long Range Plans
7. Character Education
8. Tribes
9. Squads
10. Seating Plans
11. Dollar Stores
12. Be Flexible
13. Classroom Scrabble
14. Rules to Live By
15. Procedures
16. A Day in the Life of a Supply Teacher (guest post)
17. What Teachers expect from a Supply (guest post)
18. Packing Up for the Year
19. Summer Homework
20. Learning Doesn't Stop in the Summer
21. New Teacher Guide
22. First Day of School (script / lesson plan)
23. Fairy Tales
24. Homework Program
2. Student Numbers
3. Day Plans
4. Keep it at School
5. Supply Plans
6. Long Range Plans
7. Character Education
8. Tribes
9. Squads
10. Seating Plans
11. Dollar Stores
12. Be Flexible
13. Classroom Scrabble
14. Rules to Live By
15. Procedures
16. A Day in the Life of a Supply Teacher (guest post)
17. What Teachers expect from a Supply (guest post)
18. Packing Up for the Year
19. Summer Homework
20. Learning Doesn't Stop in the Summer
21. New Teacher Guide
22. First Day of School (script / lesson plan)
23. Fairy Tales
24. Homework Program
25. Map Adventures
26. Math Drills
Day Plans , First Day of School (script / lesson plan) , Long Range Plans , Seating Plans , Student Numbers , Supply Plans , Visual Schedules
28. Musical Corners
29. Classroom Deal or No Deal **new**
30. My Mission Statement **new**
31. A New Cereal on the Bookshelf **new**
32. April Fools Day **new**
33. Using Play Money to teach Responsibility **new**
34. Classroom Economy **new**
35. Three Choices You Always Have **new**
36. Classroom Blog **new**
37. How to Listen **new**
38. Level Everything
40. Mark Book
41. Monthly Homework
42. Song Maps
43. Teaching Music
45. USB Drives
47. Visual Schedules
48. Bitesize Science
Posts by Theme will continue to be updated as well
April Fools Day
Assessment and Marking
Balancing Work, Career, and Family
Character Education
Character Education , How to Listen , Rules to Live By , Squads , Three Choices You Always Have , Tribes
Computers
EQAO
Games
Geography
Homework
Language Arts (English)
Math
Money
Music
Newsletters
Parents
Planning
Day Plans , First Day of School (script / lesson plan) , Long Range Plans , Seating Plans , Student Numbers , Supply Plans , Visual Schedules
Professional Development
Science
Schedules / Time Tables
Standardized Testing
Supply Teaching
A Day in the Life of a Supply Teacher (guest post) , Supply Plans , What Teachers expect from a Supply (guest post)
Websites
Posts
2 comments:
Hi Chase:
A little vent time -
I've just finished another PLC (Professional Learning Community) 1/2 day at my school. For a time that we, as teachers, are supposed to use in ways to better our student's learning, most of the time was spent analyzing EQAO scores.
We were then required to pick curriculum goals for the next 4 to 6 weeks, do it and present what we have done and how to another school by Nov. 30.
We didn't even look at any of our kids current assessments, learning strengths or needs. This goal is on top of all the DRA/CASI, other curriculum, character traits and good citizenship that we are trying to teach.
Is this PLC trend typical from your experience?
The short interventions are starting to require more effort than the actual teaching.
From
Bogged down
Hi Bogged Down,
I appreciate your venting. I feel much the same way. There is always so new initiative that we are expected to take on, a new strategy for us to look at, or a new duty for us to perform. It's too much at times.
As for EQAO, it is one test. I really don't like this much focus being put on one test. We also need to see that the students need to be working towards the goals of that test from the start of grade 1 if they are to do well on it.
There a lot of problems with the EQAO testing but it is a reality that we need to put up with. I teach Grade 3 so I feel the pressure of it too. I will be writing a post about how I prepare my students for it all year long in the near future. Hopefully that will help some teachers.
I also find some PLP, workshops, and PD sessions to be a complete waste of time. I hate to say it, but if I get one good idea out of them, then I count it as a success. I like good PD but it seems that useful ones are few and far between.
Thanks for your comment.
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