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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 ...

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) ...

Teacher Turnover [Infographic]

According to recent studies, 30% of teachers quit teaching by the end of their second year of teaching. I am ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

5 Steps That Took Me From “I Hate Teaching” To “I Love Teaching”

See if you can relate "I regret choosing this profession! I wish I was still back in college! I just want to ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Teacher Survey

A previous version of this article did not include the link to the survey. That has been updated to simplify ...

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 ...
Frozen And The Value of Quality [VIDEO]

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 ...

5 Reasons I Loved Teaching Middle School

This past summer was a whirlwind tour for me and someday I may share a bit about the amazing experiences ...
Top 10 Ways To Improvise Your Way to Being A Better Teacher

Top 10 Ways To Improvise Your Way to Being A Better Teacher

This summer I made the decision to go on a somewhat extensive tour of a few of the major cities ...

From Burnout Into Ignited Passion: How Blogging, Information Overload, and Running Made Me A Better Teacher

I don't care if it's your teaching job or your personal habits or your social life or what it is, ...

5 Questions To Ask Before You Teach Each Class

As I was going through some old paperwork a couple of weeks ago, I came across the binder that I ...

Work from Anywhere, And Touch Other Lives by Teaching English Online

People get into teaching for a variety of reasons, but two of the biggest are the ability it gives you ...
Why Experience Is The Best Teacher

Why Experience Is The Best Teacher

"You'll understand when you're older." We tell that to our students, and they don't like. We hear it when we ...
20 Dead Simple Classroom Management Ideas, Tricks, and Tips

20 Dead Simple Classroom Management Ideas, Tricks, and Tips

I have written extensively in the past about classroom management and I admit I have glossed over some things while ...

What To Do When You Hate Teaching

Disillusionment is common to most of us involved in the teaching profession. We all deal with it at one point ...

50 Things Every First Year Teacher Should Know

The first year teacher is often a very lonely and isolated person. They often feel like everyone else has everything ...
Make This School Year Amazing!

Make This School Year Amazing!

How is this year going to be different from every other year you've taught before? Do you have a specific ...
10 Years of Teaching: How Do I Keep My Sanity?

10 Years of Teaching: How Do I Keep My Sanity?

Five years ago, I wrote a series of seven articles called “Questions That Will Save Your Career” that still remain ...

10 Years of Teaching: How Do I Keep My School Administration Happy?

Five years ago, I wrote a series of seven articles called “Questions That Will Save Your Career” that still remain ...
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