By Guest Writer Amanda Elizabeth Austin, Ed. D The moment I knew I was going to become an educator was when I got to experience a service learning course during my last year of college where I volunteered my time at a local elementary school. This school was located in an area, which was considered […]
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Posted inClassroom Management, Featured, Instructional Strategies
Teaching Happiness Habits in the Classroom
By Guest Writer Michelle Wood I guess I consider myself a life coach, maybe, but I don’t know if that really captures what I do. (Does any title really capture all that we do?) I am a high school English teacher, a secondary new teacher mentor for my district, a health and wellness coach for […]
Posted inFeatured, Instruction & Curriculum, Instructional Strategies
Happiness Habits in the Classroom
By guest writer Michelle Wood I consider myself a development coach, maybe, but I don’t know if that really captures what I do. (Does any title really capture all that we do?) I am a high school English teacher, a secondary new teacher mentor for my district, a health and wellness coach for women, […]
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Why I Stay in the Teaching World
Written Anonymously for TER I didn’t go into teaching to change the world. In fact, I gravitated toward teaching because I wanted to read and talk about books for my job. I chose the profession simply because, as I sat in my English class senior year, I wanted to talk about 1984 and novels like it forever. […]
Posted inCurrent Events in Education, Social Justice
What Do You Do When The Teacher Is The Bully?
by:John Sucich Early in my teaching career, I was told by an administrator that she had asked one of my students how he would describe me. “Strict,” was the student’s reply. It was all very matter-of-fact. The administrator was just letting me know, not sending me any kind of message. And the student had me […]
Posted inCurrent Events in Education, Featured, From the Front Lines, High School, Instruction & Curriculum, Literacy
Staying Student-Centered in a World Gone Mad over Technology
Guest Writer:By: Eliana Lipsky I am a teacher coach, professional developer, and school consultant for a few Jewish day schools in the Chicago area. I’m also a former classroom teacher who left to get my doctorate in education. I recently attended a one-day conference here with over three hundred fellow educators representing over five Chicagoland […]
Posted inEnglish Language Learners, ESOL, Featured
2015: A Year in Which an ELL Teacher Goes from “Failure” to “Success”
By Guest Writer Jennifer Healey This New Year’s Eve, I deserved an extra glass of champagne. I toasted myself for my success as an educator. After years of “failure,” in 2015 I was deemed a “successful” teacher by the illustrious Oregon Department of Education. It all went by so fast! It seems like only yesterday I […]
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Who Were the Experts at ISTE2015?
By: Susan Barry So there I was, pausing to survey the displays around me at ISTE2015 last week, when I felt a tap on my hip. “Excuse me, miss, would you like to see my project?” A young man, jaunty in his navy-blue jacket and rep tie, stood iPad in hand, ready to […]