This month has been all about time management for teachers and organization for your planning period and your email inbox. Today we will tackle a macro system - the 5 things I do each week to keep things running smoothly. Tip #1 - Start with a Clean Slate We all know how impossible it is to start a task or be productive when you are working on top of a mess. For me, I can’t start ...
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Time Saving Tips for Your Teacher Planning Period
A teacher’s planning period is sacred (or it should be), but it never feels like enough time to complete the 62,000 tasks a teacher needs to do each day. This is why teachers so often work nights or the weekends. Let’s talk about some ways to improve the efficiency of this time. Note: No school is the same, you may have one 90 minute planning period or two 45 minute planning ...
Unpacking Math Standards When Lesson Planning
Unpacking math standards helps teachers build the foundation for what content they are teaching to students. Subsequently, unpacking math standards provides a framework to create actionable lessons. Essentially, unpacking math standards helps us answer these two questions: What are students learning?How will they learn it? This is part 1 of our Instructional Design series. Come ...
Middle School Math Curriculum
I'M READY TO JOIN YOU CAN REACH YOUR MATH STUDENTS WITHOUT THE "I STILL HAVE TO PREP FOR TOMORROW" STRESS, THE CONSTANT OVERWHELM OF TEACHING MULTIPLE PREPS, AND THE HAMSTER WHEEL DEMANDS OF CREATING YOUR OWN TEACHING MATERIALS * SHORT * PURPOSEFUL * DONE-FOR-YOU * MATH VIDEOS https://vimeo.com/657191957I now use the videos for students to complete the handouts ...
4 Time Wasters to Stop as a Teacher
The beginning of the school year is when we have the best intentions for how the school year will go. Let’s keep this energy up by committing to stop doing these 4 time wasters. These time wasters lead to stress and burn out - I can personally attest! LISTEN ON: APPLE PODCAST | SPOTIFY Point 1: Stop Bringing Your Work Home This may seem like the opposite of a time waster since ...
6 Tips for Classroom Set-Up
Classroom set-up is my favorite back to school task! It is time to deck out our classrooms! Easily one of the best and most stressful parts of being a teacher. I have some tips on how to make classroom set-up efficient and stress free. LISTEN ON: APPLE PODCAST | SPOTIFY 1. Prioritize If you want to do something magical in your classroom to make it homey and ...
Making Changes vs Staying the Course
If you are a teacher who is seeing the online teacher community buzzing with words like “grids” or “centers” and feel a little overwhelmed, then this post is for you. Oftentimes, we see other teachers implement new strategies or techniques, and think to ourselves, “Should I be doing that too?” Making changes in your classroom needs to approached with thoughtful consideration. LISTEN ...
How to Differentiate in Middle School Math
Today on the blog (and podcast), we have Marissa McCarthy! She is an amazing teacher who uses Maneuvering the Middle resources to teach and differentiate for her 6th grade students. She is a whiz at small groups and a wealth of knowledge. Marissa has just wrapped up her 13th year of teaching math in Ohio. She has earned her masters in gifted education, previously coached her ...
Are Math Video Lessons Effective?
Teaching has changed so much in a year and a half. With many schools going back to face to face next year, it begs the question - are video lessons here to stay? Will the use of this technology continue and if so, what will it look like? LISTEN ON: APPLE PODCAST | SPOTIFY Maybe a way to phrase the question is - are video lessons effective? Effective teaching practices stick ...
Setting Teacher Boundaries
Not setting enough boundaries is potentially one of the reasons that educators feel so burnt out early in their careers. I am going to share with you some ways we can put healthy boundaries in place so that we can thrive in our roles as educators, family members, and friends. Why we need boundaries As educators, I think we are prone to struggle with setting healthy teacher ...