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Many believe that the teachers primary role is teaching the students and only that, when is reality the role a teacher plays in a students like is much bigger. As a teacher you are playing the role of a second parent for your students, you are teaching them how to determine wrong from right. YouContinue reading “Why should teachers make the classroom feel like the students second home?”

How do we teach students who have experienced trauma? Well, in the book published by Educational Leadership called “Making School A Safe Place”, it shares ways the teacher can make small changes in their classrooms that can greatly benefit traumatized students. Many don’t know that up to two-thirds of children have experienced at least oneContinue reading “Teaching Trauma Exposed Students”

Speaking from personal experience, the value that needs to be placed on our students learning styles and incorporating differentitation in our teaching is very high. My elementary career was spent being verbally abused by other students for my weight and I started viewing words as something that werent important to me because of the hurtContinue reading “Knowing your students: Why learning styles and differentiation is critical”

Statements of a school’s or maybe even a single classroom’s Vision and Mission is important because it helps staff and teachers stick to the core purpose of their school or teaching. It can act as guidance in making decisions and to show parents your schools value. Your statement will should be the guide in everythingContinue reading “Do you know your Vision and Mission?”

Today I want to focus on the topic of social skills and the importance it holds. Research has backed that teaching social skills to students as young as kindergarten can have long-term effects on not only the students but on society as a whole, and as we all know society can always use improvement andContinue reading “Social Skills: Long term benefits not only for students but society as a whole”

Bullying is an issue in schools all around the world and it can result in some serious consequences for students. This is an problems that schools without a doubt can take actions to prevent. First of all a Bully Prevention Program needs to deal with both the individual students and the school culture. Schools canContinue reading “Intervention Plan : Be kind and set bullying aside”

In this post I want to focus on Marzano and his 9 instructional strategies for effective teaching. These strategies were created to improve student learning and reach those higher levels of DOK (Depth of Knowledge). Firstly, we as teachers need to be able to break down concepts in more simple forms. We can do thisContinue reading “Marzano the man with the strategies”

As a teacher I think what guides my behavior plan is conscious discipline. By using this method we are providing solutions for social-emotional learning, with the goal to help parents and schools reach and teach every child. If it is implemented correctly this method can provide a lifetime of skills that will positively impact generationsContinue reading “Behavior Plan, Do you have one in your classroom?”

In the first chapter of the book Defusing Disruptive Behavior In The Classroom it talks about seven key behavioral principles – Goals of correction procedures, the role of the teacher attention in correction procedures, the nature of behavioral intensity, escalation, and diffusion, the nature of behavioral chains, the role of behavioral extinction and extinction bursts,Continue reading “Colvin: Defusing Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom”

This week I want to focus on Piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development. Piaget believed that children take an active role in the learning process. One could say that he believed children to engage with the learning process much like scientists engage with experiments, observing the world around them, constantly adding to their knowledge, buildingContinue reading “The Wonderful Piaget”