Just A Little Bit: 29 Tweaks That Help Me Gain The Respect of My Students Classroom Management by Joel Wagner - May 30, 2016July 31, 20163 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 . Since then, I have grown as a teacher, but even as I look back on what I wrote in this blog eight years ago, I am struck by how differently I have come to view things. Those early years of struggle were good, and Lord knows I still continue to find my share of struggles, but as far as student respect, I generally find that I have a much easier time than I did once upon a time. Here is a quick list of things that work to help me gain respect from my students. They may not work for
Testing, Testing…Is This Thing On? Blogging & Technology by Joel Wagner - May 29, 2016June 15, 20160 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 I basically was tired of the hassles that came along with the blog. So I pushed it to the back burner. I would feel inspired every once in a while to write something, but with the state of the website being as it was, that inspiration quickly turned to frustration. Until this month. The layout of this blog has been basically the same since 2009 when I paid to have a theme professionally built for it. That theme was nice and pretty, but a whole lot has changed in the world of web design over the
New Teacher Survey General by Joel Wagner - May 7, 2016July 29, 20160 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 a project. If you are going to be starting your first or second year of teaching and would like to help me out by answering 5 questions for me, please complete this survey. I'll share the results and the project with you when I'm finished. If that's not you, please pass this on to your new teacher friends. photo credit: 2016 Commencement via photopin (license)