There’s something so exciting about brand new teachers’ classrooms and watching them get it ready all summer long. So much wonder. So much self-drive. So much innocence.
The sad part is when we see a new teacher lose that because they don’t feel supported during their first year.
Support your new teachers.
🔺Check on them daily.
🔸Model lessons for them.
🔺Provide them an automatic coaching cycle with the instructional coach on day 1.
🔸Provide specific feedback.
🔺Model the first phone call home.
🔸Pre-plan their first parent conf and do it with them.
🔺Simply ask, “How can I help?” And ask often.
Teachers will be more likely to stay in the profession when they feel supported. Plain and simple.
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🔥KANSAS: “I planned to oppose this bill — but I support it… with this we can promote our leftist agenda to our targeted students without any administrative oversight.”
A mom/teacher uses reverse psychology to expose the GOP scheme to dismantle public schools. @GovBillLee
@marianatucker97 Check out Angela Watson’s 40 Hour Work Week. She has a podcast and website that are super helpful. She also has a program you can subscribe to. Highly recommend! https://t.co/77Dl58k3JM
I think we need to say we love our jobs a lot more. Not only in front of our students but to each other. We need to remember as difficult as this job is there’s still joy in this work.
Thank you for your feedback as we have added to the ACE's being studied &observed. Remembering that this is a correlation study & a snapshot of the conditions & experiences that can impact children& youth in development but it is also about the relationships during these times.
🧵 One thing always surprises me when we talk about standards-based grading and retakes/redos.
People talk about it like you have to do them, and if you don't, you are doing it wrong.
Here's the deal, I don't give retakes.
Here's why...
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I was struggling with a lot of low level disruptive behaviour in one of my classes.
A few phone calls home and it improved massively. Here’s what I did:
#adviceforECTs 👇🏻
Classroom management means I manage the only person I control. Do I stay calm when he gets upset? Am I respectful to disrespectful people? Do I take the behavior personally? Am I allowing the behavior to control my emotions? Do I see it as an annoyance or a challenge?#thatonekid
You cannot get educated by this self-propagating system in which people study to pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.
You learn something by doing it yourself, by asking questions, by thinking, and by experimenting.