How To Actually Enjoy Teaching A Class You Don’t Want To Teach
You want me to teach what? Imagine my surprise the first day of my job one year when I found out that I was teaching Music […]
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Common New Teacher Struggles (And How To Deal With Them)
Being a teacher is one of the most stressful jobs a person can have, and if you’re a teacher, you will know that one of […]
How I Fell In Love With Lesson Planning
“I got your lesson plans right here, buddy!” You know the drill, spend hours creating a lesson plan weeks ahead of the class that you don’t […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 . […]
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 I had traveling by myself […]
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 in the Northeast United States. […]
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, we all face burnout at […]
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 to personally connect with students […]
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 already figured out, and they […]
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 among the most visited articles […]