Help your students become self-directed learners with these five easy tips that ANY teacher can implement! If you’re like me, you love the students in your classroom that constantly chase knowledge. Many years ago, I had zero students like...
Engagement is a fickle thing. A student has an off day and becomes disengaged. Your lesson doesn’t interest your students as much as you thought it would and engagement goes down. It happens to the best of us. What I dread the most (and...
Hi teachers! I’m Retta from Rainbow City Learning, and I’m so excited to be guest posting today on Performing in Education! Have I ever told you what a great job you are doing in your classroom every day, and how grateful I am for the...
In 10 years of teaching, I’ve found that my grading philosophy sometimes defers from what’s expected from administrators and parents. We give students tests ten times more than we did when I started teaching. Of those tests, many of them...
Positive notes home are a classroom management strategy that I believe is under utilized. It just takes a few minutes at the end of the day to write 1 or 2 of these notes to send home with students that have worked hard that day. I often send home...
One thing that I always try to pride myself on as a teacher (and as a person) is staying positive. In fact, one time a student told me, “The more boring the topic, Mrs. Veise, the more excited you are!” Um, yeah. Guilty. I will get...
