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Is Being a Teacher Harder Now Than 20 Years Ago?
Teaching is a really tough profession that requires an educator to invest an incredible commitment of time and energy to their work throughout the school year. Teachers often go home with piles of papers to grade and are often required to do lesson planning in their own time. They often...
Dealing with Difficult Parents
Working in the educational sector as a teacher or administrator is not always easy. In addition to teaching children all day, grading papers, and maintaining proper educational standards, professionals involved in education are also required to communicate with the parents of their students. While most parents are likely to turn...
Can You Have a Good School With a Bad Principal?
To answer a question of quality, one must first define what meets the criteria. This is a fundamental problem that far too many organizations fail to address before taking what often ends up being ineffective action. How can corrective action be taken without first identifying the problem? In matters of education,...
Mistakes Teachers Make
8 Mistakes Teachers Make Mistakes are simply a part of life. Five plus seven becomes eleven and you quickly whip out your eraser and it becomes twelve with no harm done. When you are a teacher though, mistakes aren't very easily just erased away. A mistake as a teacher can...
What Makes a Good Teacher
If properly prepared and fully engaged, teachers have the ability to not only educate but also change the lives of their students. In order for young students to grow intellectually, they must be exposed to quality teachers within a positive school environment. There are many characteristics that are necessary in...
How Schools Can Attract and Keep Quality Teachers
Teaching children is one of the most important careers around the world. As the owner or administrator of a school, hiring teachers of the highest caliber is always desired, whether you manage a public, charter, or private institution. Knowing how schools can better attract and retain quality teachers is a...
Figuring Out How Much To Pay Teachers
Compensation for teachers has become a hot topic across the nation. Over the last few years, a number of school districts were forced to cancel classes as teachers went on strike over how they were compensated. To avoid interruptions to school and learning, it's important that teachers and educators are...
Inclusion and Education
Education has evolved over the centuries especially in Western culture. What was once only accessible to young, white, privileged males became accessible to most such as women, people of color, and those in varying socioeconomic backgrounds. In another milestone of accessible education is the inclusion of people with special needs. Now,...
The Impact of Classroom Management on Student Behaviors
Marzano and Marzano cited a comprehensive review of literature on student achievement and found the top factor in student achievement was classroom management. Students are limited on how much they can learn in a classroom that is disrupted, unsafe, and/or chaotic. There are entire books written on the topic of classroom management....
The Effectiveness of Character Education Programs
Character education has been an integral part of in K-12 curriculum. However, many educators may be in doubt of its effectiveness or whether it should still be integrated into lesson plans. When creating lessons plans, it has been commonplace for teachers to think of fitting character education goals but one...
Time to Play Games: Using Games to Encourage Learning in the Classroom
Imagine this: a student who's usually on his best behavior is caught playing a game on his cell phone during a lesson. Annoyed by the rule infraction, the fact that it came during a lesson, and the distraction it created amongst other students, the educator politely and firmly tells the...
Classroom Management: Ways to Reduce Student Stress
There have been various studies showing the effects of a classroom’s learning process on student stress. Those who are anxious about their abilities inside the classroom will typically have high levels of what is known as the hormone associated with stress, cortisol. Eric Digest presented an in-depth report on the relationship...