[INFOGRAPHIC] What Makes A Good Teacher In 2016?
According to ITN Mark Education, there are 7 key components of a good teacher. Love of the subject Stress Management Complete control Organization Professional behavior […]
Should Teachers Provide Great Customer Service?
This is an updated version of one of the first articles written on this blog about treating education as a part of the customer service industry. […]
A Step-By-Step Framework for Incremental Growth
I want you to watch the first 3:40 of this TED Talk by Benjamin Zander Notice the Dramatic change in the piano player from 7 […]
Quitting Teaching, A View From A Former Teacher
In this article Lucas Allen, a former math educator from Illinois writes about his experience quitting teaching and the transition into the corporate world. Why […]
Weekend Reading 6/11/16
Over the past two weeks, I have jumped back into blogging. This week, I jumped back into Twitter (follow @sywtt). There’s some great stuff going […]
Teacher Turnover [Infographic]
According to recent studies, 30% of teachers quit teaching by the end of their second year of teaching. I am convinced that many of those […]
5 Keys To Educating People – Revisited
This is an updated version of the first article written on this blog, which was originally posted on February 11, 2007. It was edited and updated on […]
Six Music Classroom Management Strategies
I recently came across an article by Rachel Maxwell and Jessica Corry called Six Music Classroom Management Strategies. As I read through the list, I […]
60 Very Practical Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Teaching
While I’ve had my ups and downs over the years as a teacher, my first two years were extremely challenging. Many of these pitfalls were avoidable. If I […]
5 Steps That Took Me From “I Hate Teaching” To “I Love Teaching”
See if you can relate “IÂ regret choosing this profession! I wish IÂ was still back in college! I just want to go live at home and […]
Just A Little Bit: 29 Tweaks That Help Me Gain The Respect of My Students
Why don’t my students respect me? We’ve all been there at one time or another. For me, it was nearly every day during my first two years . […]
Testing, Testing…Is This Thing On?
It has been quite a while since I wrote anything on here. Life got busy, WordPress didn’t update correctly, Emails from the site overwhelmed me, and […]
New Teacher Survey
A previous version of this article did not include the link to the survey. That has been updated to simplify the process. I’m working on […]
Let’s Talk About…Finding A New Teaching Job
Talk amongst yourselves This weekend, let’s discuss finding a new teaching job. It’s summer (in the northern hemisphere) and many of us are out of school. With […]
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Frozen And The Value of Quality [VIDEO]
So recently some friends of mine did a video of themselves singing Love Is An Open Door from the movie Frozen. It showed up as a blip […]