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8 Strategies Your Teaching More Enjoyable This Year

TeachThought

It depends on factors, including building and climate, mindset, relationships with parents, student engagement, and classroom management, the function of various standards in your teaching and curriculum, the quality of the PLCs—if they are used in your building—and so on. Of course, this varies greatly from teacher to teacher.

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A Systematic Approach to Social and Emotional Support

A Principal's Reflections

All of this has led to a dramatic increase in discipline issues and a significant amount of time having to be spent on classroom management and establishing routines. Lesson planning/activities : While Daily Meeting is a great start, SEL should be emphasized across the curriculum.

Pedagogy 467
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10 Strategies to Strengthen Instruction and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. I still can’t believe how much time and focus there was on how to manage a classroom effectively. When I think back to my training to become a teacher, there were some reasonably consistent norms.

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Making Headway with Remote and Hybrid Learning

A Principal's Reflections

They shared how teachers got better using technology, reached out more for feedback, collaborated more, and improved classroom management. As each leader presented their views on positive shifts to practice, you could see their pride swell.

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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

ED Surge

The project was simple for me because it came with the guidance like a rubric, a model and examples to help with lesson planning. Earlier this year, I was facilitating a series of three lessons about classroom management.

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The Role of the Substitute Teacher Needs an Overhaul

ED Surge

In a deal struck between the New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers, a new position — paraprofessional classroom manager (PCM) — was created as a temporary solution to allow paraprofessionals (paras) like me to sub for classroom teachers. These are luxuries that are not afforded to most subs.

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Your Teachers Need a Win

Cult of Pedagogy

Classroom management and logistics : Have they set up any systems in the classroom that makes it run well? Are there any signs that students have been given the tools they need to manage some of their own learning independently? Lesson planning : Do they come up with interesting activities to teach their content?

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