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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

They are sponsoring this post, and since some of their most popular courses are on the topic of classroom management, they asked me to create a resource for helping teachers with classroom management. Several years ago on the first day of school, he came home excited about this one teacher.

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Are you a perfectionist in your teaching? These 3 mental reframes can help reduce stress.

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Stephanie Reece. Being a teacher is demanding in many ways. This resulted in me spending hours after school analyzing the events of the day, questioning myself and my decisions I had to make. I have always struggled with the mental load of the job.

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How to act (rather than react) and stop wasting class time when kids are off-task

The Cornerstone for Teachers

One of the frustrations that I think has been common to every teacher, in every location, across the history of time, is that of having your instruction interrupted by someone who’s not paying attention. There is no classroom in which every student is totally engaged every minute of every lesson. .

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Real talk on how to make differentiation less time-consuming

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: Real teachers talk about differentiated teaching strategies that worked — and didn’t work — in their classrooms. Last season of the podcast, I introduced you to a new episode format I’m calling the Productivity Roundtable. Want to listen instead of read ?

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Overcoming mom guilt / dad guilt when you spend more time with other people’s kids

The Cornerstone for Teachers

How could that be true when you’re with your kids most of the day? It seems that everyone worries that they’re not focused on nurturing their kids and engaging with them enough. It’s a bit of a red flag for me, that the problem might have more to do with our beliefs about what it means to be a good parent in 2019.

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How to keep teaching from ruining your marriage

The Cornerstone for Teachers

In this episode of Truth for Teachers, we’re talking about how to keep teaching from ruining your marriage (or any relationship you have with a significant other). I shared with members of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club that I was going to do this episode and asked for their input.

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Hi-Lo Texts: Reaching fringe readers with text bands

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This works for the “average” reader, but teachers know that classrooms do not merely comprise grade-level readers. While I would personally say the task of curating a classroom library has been easier as a 2nd-grade teacher, I still have students spanning kindergarten-4th grade reading levels. I can relate.