by mindroar | Jan 24, 2020 | #teacherlife, classroom management, teaching, teaching strategies
In my fourth year of teaching, I had a lightbulb moment. Positive praise works. I should’ve known: I’d had professional development sessions on it and read about it in teaching manuals. But somehow it didn’t sink in until I had a student approach me...
by mindroar | Nov 29, 2019 | #teacherlife, classroom management, teaching, teaching strategies
As a beginning teacher, I would’ve forefeited my first year’s salary to find out easy, effective classroom rewards for students. But I’m going to give it to you for free: positive praise. What? Positive praise is the best reward? And it’s free?...
by mindroar | Nov 25, 2019 | #teacherlife, blog, Crash Course Study Skills, teaching strategies, teaching study skills
Have you ever read your student notebooks when they take independent notes and face-palmed? I know I have – it can feel like they have not listened at all when their notes don’t reflect the lesson you think you have given. When this happens, you know...
by mindroar | Nov 11, 2019 | #teacherlife, blog, classroom management, parenting, teaching, teaching strategies
Are you a beginning teacher struggling with managing your class? Or are a parent of a threenager who pushes every.single.button? Read on to find out 5 strategies for classroom management that parents can use too. Set boundaries Classroom management strategy one: set...
by mindroar | Oct 11, 2019 | blog, English literature, teaching English, teaching literature, teaching Shakespeare, teaching strategies
“Thou cockered, fen-sucked pignut!” shouted one boy, his eyes alight with mischievous glee.Kalvin, 15 “Thou mammering, half-faced hedge pig!” countered another, a typically quiet student who had now spoken aloud for the third time the whole year.Jacob, 14 As a...
by mindroar | Oct 11, 2019 | blog, Crash Course Study Skills, teaching resources, teaching strategies, teaching study skills
The first time I studied properly was for a Year 12 for a Biology exam I wanted to get an A in. I re-read all of my notes for the whole unit, summarised the main ideas, condensed the main ideas into single words that ‘triggered’ other information, and...
