Sometimes you have that group of students that no teacher seems to want. They complain about the students. They criticize their abilities and write them off as being unteachable. These are the ones that I seem to be drawn toward in teaching career as I was the mother of one of these students. When I …
New Year with New Challenges
This school year started itself off with personal challenges. Over the past two years I’ve questioned by ability to teach and struggled with my health. After meeting with many parents and students, and looking over the data for one of my classes, I left work talking with God about what He expected and what I …
Why is it important to build a good rapport with your students?
Over the years, I’ve learned that building a good rapport with my students is a priority when it comes to teaching. I have been in classrooms where students have continuously shut me out for one reason or another, and I’ve also been in classrooms where students enjoyed my class and were more than eager to …
Using Classcraft to appeal to your students’ need for competition
I can remember sitting in on a Professional Development session back in 2014 on “Gamifying Your Classroom,” and I walked out of there thinking, “That’ll never work!” The ugly truth is that I tuned out during the session on Classcraft because I thought that it was complicated. I was wrong! I ran across Classcraft by …