Teaching Tips and Strategies

What do you think are the worst things that teachers do? Share your thoughts.

As teachers, we often work in isolation. Here is a place where we can begin to share our thoughts and our stories so that we can work through challenges and celebrate victories together.

Share your teacher profile with other teachers. Together we can celebrate your unique contributions and what you bring to teaching. See submissions

Share your best practices for organizing housekeeping and recordkeeping tasks in your classroom.

Why did you become a teacher? Share your story here, and read why others chose this wonderful profession. See submissions

Here are different aims of education that are often espoused.

One of the six key teacher tasks is taking care of housekeeping and record keeping tasks. The way that a teacher handles these tasks says a lot about their classroom organization skills. With effective and easy-to-use systems in place, teachers will be able to spend more time focusing on actually instructing and interacting with their students.

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Many schools do not require yearly parent conferences after elementary school for all students. Therefore, when a secondary school educator meets with parents for a conference, it is typically because the student in question is struggling either academically, behaviorally, or both. This list is focused on helping teachers prepare themselves for...

One of the six main tasks that teachers perform is planning, developing, and organizing instruction. Planning instruction is the key to a teacher's sanity. This article focuses on the tools that can help you plan, develop, and organize instruction effectively.

What is wait time and how does it relate to student learning? Find out the best way to use wait time in your classroom.

What do teachers really do? Every task that teachers perform falls under one of six categories. Many states such as the state of Florida use these and similar categories when observing teachers. They truly are a great way to organize your thoughts and systems around teaching. Following are the six teacher tasks with information and tools to help...

Here is a great list of quick tips that you can use right away to help increase your classroom management skills within the classroom.

This teaching feedback were given by an awesome veteran teacher to a new student teacher on her first day of teaching. The feedback is not only useful but also realistic and applicable to most new (and many veteran) teachers daily classroom skills.

Here are the top six keys to being a successful teacher. All teachers can benefit from focusing on these important qualities.

Here is a list of items that you should avoid as a new or veteran teacher. Any of these can create problems for you as a teacher and if you combine two or more than just expect to really have a hard time gaining student respect and finding your profession enjoyable.

Student teachers and their instructors can use these top ten tips to help them be more effective in their initial teaching assignments.

These techniques provide teachers with many ideas to help them elicit better responses from students during lessons.

What is tenure? Read this definition to learn more about teacher tenure.

What is the definition of teacher burnout? What is it and who suffers from it? Learn more here.

There are many methods for presenting subject matter to students. This list presents the most common methods that teachers use to present subject matter with further advice and information.

This article explains how to create a restroom pass system.

This list provides a look at the types of disruptions that might occur in a typical day of teaching.

Daily and weekly review can lead to a much greater retention of material for students. This list reveals five review techniques that teachers can use to help their students review material previously learned.