Is the Stress of Teaching Making You Sick? If you’ve ever thought, “My job is killing me,” you might be closer to the truth than you think. Teachers and stress seem to go hand in hand, and your teaching job might be causing you serious …
Teaching Kids How to Write Cursive Cursive writing seems like an old-fashioned skill that has no place in today’s modern classrooms. With laptops, e-books and cell phones in every school, is there still room for the art of handwriting? Teaching Kids How to Write (and …
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Who Do You Trust and Why? Have you ever thought about the factors that cause you to trust or distrust a person? What about your school principal? I read a report by the Pew Research Center the other day that looks at individuals in leadership …
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Have Cart, Will Travel (and Teach) If you think teachers don’t get enough respect, spare a thought for the most reviled and disrespected of them all. We’re talking about the so-called floating teacher, mobile teacher or traveling teacher, doomed to spend a year dragging a …
Laptops are showing up in classrooms all over America. That’s on top of the cell phones and tablets that children use every day. There is growing evidence, however, that technology rewires brains, and not always in good ways. What is all that computer time doing …
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How Did We All Get Here? Two years before I quit teaching, it required herculean effort to motivate myself out of bed, into the car, and down the road for my 34 minute commute. I know that 32 minutes may sound pretty wonderful for some …
Read moreWhat Is Commuting (and Why Are You Still Doing It)?