There is no doubt that teaching jobs are more difficult to secure than ever before. States around the country are drastically cutting their budgets in an attempt to battle rising fuel costs and a tough economy. In fact, many school districts are being forced to cut more than 20 million dollars from their budget. Unfortunately, this is leading to many…
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Simple Beauty Tips For Girls In Middle School
When you think of sixth grade, you think about your first year in middle school. You are out of elementary school and everything is bigger, older and more exciting. This is the time to explore your personality and discover new things. For a young girl it is also the time to experiment with make up. There are three simple beauty…
How to Maximize Engagement Time With Online Learners – 7 Tips
With today’s trend in learning online, apps are aplenty around. Yes, with right balance to the amount of time discussing the topic for the day, teaching/learning engagements become fun and easy. Here are tips on how to make most of the time alloted to a certain subject area say English reading class. 1. Playstore has a lot of reading apps…
5 Effective Tips To Teach Math For Slow Learners
Slow learners are not any different from the normal students in their intellectual abilities except that they are too distracted and the normal teaching methods do not help them comprehend what is taught. This is why you need special teaching methods for them. When appropriate method is adopted with adequate understanding and support from parents and teachers, these slow learners…
A Guide to Good Classroom Discipline
1. Good classroom discipline starts with being fair. Make sure that all students get the same punishment for doing something wrong – even if it is your best student. Conversely, make sure that all of your students get equally rewarded for good work. Do not favor a student – other students will see this and resent you for it and…
Teaching Music to Kids – Tips and Strategies
Music is one good thing to teach to children and in fact, those children who start learning music at an early age tends to become good in their chosen fields and does well with reading music, playing instruments and other goals they pursue in terms of music. If you are looking forward to teaching music to kids, here are a…
5 Tips to Choose the Online Nursing School Right for You
No one can tell you which online nursing school is right for you. As a rule, you must be the one who chooses which path to take and how you want to get there. The differences between the online nursing schools are varied and one needs to be aware that they all have their pros and cons. However, if you…
Using Trade Books in the Classroom
Looking for a way to encourage your students’ interest in a topic? Trade books can provide the needed spark. Trade books, which are primarily designed to entertain and inform outside the classroom, can be used successfully in the classroom to heighten motivation in your students. Trade books cover just about every topic under the sun, so you can probably find…
Teacher Oriented Teaching Methods
What is the teacher oriented teaching method? In a simple and précised meaning, the Teacher oriented teaching method comprises of the ideologies and techniques used by teachers to pass learning to a student. These strategies are determined relatively on the subject matter to be taught. For a particular teaching manner to be suitable and effective it has to be in…
Teaching Tips – Using the 4 "P’s" of Powerful Teaching
Great teaching does not happen just because you show up to school. In order to be a great teacher, you must be willing to work and work hard. You must continually work at improving your skills, obtaining more knowledge and furthering your development if you are to become a great teacher. Let’s face it, on every campus from elementary to…