Teaching Tips

Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesdays - The Table of Contents

Please visit this page often as I will continue to update it every week with my latest teaching tip.

Below you find the tips in the order they have appeared on my blog.
The tips are also grouped by theme a little further down. 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

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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
25. Map Adventures
26. Math Drills
40. Mark Book
51. Get Parents on Side
52. Teaching Gym and Health
53. Letter Writing
54. Black History Month
55. Classroom Rules (Expectations)
56. Literacy Strategy A.P.E. (guest post) 
57. Twitter in the Classroom
58. Improvisational Stories
59. A Great Drama Rubric 
60. Comic Strip Drama
61. Radio Theatre
62. Jigsaw Listening
63. Three Choices
64. Using Pop Music
65. 5 Shading Techniques
66. Super Buck (Art Project)
67. Colour Wheel
68. World Cup
69. Leadership Activity
70. First Day Craft
71. Read Everything 
72. Be Enthusiastic!
73. Using Video in the Classroom
74. Don't Throw That Out
75. Transformational Geometry
76. Colour Families
77. Teachable Moments
78. Smarties Math
79. Elementary Oragami (guest post)
80. Super Doors
81. Using Math Resources
82. Great Websites
83. 5 Tips To Motivate Reluctant Students (guest post)
84. Art Attack
85. Take a Break
86. 4 Ways to Sustain Your Enthusiasm (guest post)
87. The What-If Activity
88. Get Them Writing
89. Picture Prompts
90. Guided Reading
91. Mutli-Syllabic Rhymes (Poetry)
92. Quieting Down a Rowdy Class (guest post)
93. Get Organized
94. Share a Story
95. Take Some Time (Enjoy Your March Break)
96. It Takes 5 Years
97. Word Study Games
98. First Time Teacher Tips (guest post)
99. 9 Tips for an Eco-Friendly Classroom (guest post)
100. 5 Reasons Not to Print That
101. Throw Out Your Rigid Classroom Schedule and Your Students Will Work Harder
102. Small Group Instruction
103. How To Fit In Small Group Instruction
104. How a Glue Stick Works
105. Unscramble, Write, and Draw
106. Teaching Vocal Music
107. Work To Learn
108. Two Month Goal: Know Your Students
109. Define Yourself: Word Collage
110. Free Teaching Resources (Part 1)
111. Use Lego to Teach Science
112. Visual (Drawing) Telephone
113. 5 Ways To Get Supply Teaching Jobs
114. Halloween Vowel Sounds
115. Why Are You Learning (Guest Post)
116. Free Teaching Resources (Part 2)
117. File Folder Seating Plans
118. Healthy Lunches Kids Will Love (guest post)
119. The Benefits of Extra-Curricular Activities (guest post)
120. 5 Minute Daily Language Activities
121. Scaredy Squirrel Drama Lesson
122. Making Comics Online
123. Visual History of Christmas Trees
124. Online Jukebox for Your Classroom
125. Music and Movement
126. Lighter or Darker Words
127. The Way You Speak Depends on the Situation
128. Using Cards in Math Class
129. We Love Books Day
130. 5 Brain Foods For Learning
131. Play and Learn with Lego
132. OK Go (and) Show This Video To Your Class
133. The Book Whisperer - Get Your Students Reading
134. Clothespins and Binder Rings
135. Inspiring Classroom Story - A Student's Resiliency

136. How to Convert Printing to Text (Smartboard Tip)
137. Let the Smartboard be Your Artist
138. Smartboard Game - A to Z
139. The Only Audio / Video Response Worksheet You'll Ever Need
140. What Teachers Actually Do
141. How to Care for Students

Posts by Theme will continue to be updated as well

April Fools Day

April Fools Day

Art

5 Shading Techniques , Super Buck , Colour Wheel , First Day Craft , Don't Throw That Out , Colour Families , Elementary Oragami (guest post) , Super Doors , Art Attack , Unscramble, Write, and Draw , Define Yourself: Word Collage , Visual (Drawing) Telephone , OK Go Primary Colours

Assessment and Marking

Level Everything , Mark Book

Balancing Work, Career, and Family

Keep it at School , Sometimes You Just Need a Break , Take a Break , Take Some Time (Enjoy Your March Break)

Character Education


Character Education , How to Listen , Rules to Live By , Squads , Three Choices You Always HaveThree Choices (reworked)Tribes, Classroom Rules (Expectations) , Leadership Activity , Teachable Moments , 5 Tips To Motivate Reluctant Students (guest post) , The What-If Activity , Work To Learn , The Way You Speak Depends on the Situation

Computers


Classroom Blog , USB Drives, Bitesize ScienceTwitter in the Classroom , Great Websites , Free Teaching Resources (Part 1)

Drama

Improvisational Stories , A Great Drama Rubric  , Comic Strip Drama , Radio Theatre , Scaredy Squirrel Drama Lesson

English - see "Language Arts (English)"

EQAO


Games

Geography



Language Arts (English)


Math

Money


Music


Newsletters


Parents


Planning

Poetry


Mutli-Syllabic Rhymes 


Professional Development


Science


Schedules / Time Tables

Standardized Testing











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