I Love Teaching. I Hate What Teaching Has Become.
A lot of teachers still love teaching. What they hate is the workload, behavior problems, paperwork, pressure, and everything else that has accumulated around the actual work of teaching.
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What to Expect During Student Teaching: A Practical Guide
Student teaching is where teaching stops being theoretical. You can understand lesson planning, classroom management, assessment, and differentiation in a college course. That does not mean you are ready to do all of them at the same time with a room full of students looking to you for what happens next. I had several student…
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How to Work With Your Cooperating Teacher
Build a productive relationship with your cooperating teacher through clear expectations, regular planning, useful feedback, professional boundaries, and timely communication.
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How to Write a Lesson Plan for Student Teaching
Learn how to write a practical student teaching lesson plan with a clear objective, evidence of learning, realistic timing, supports, and checks for understanding.
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Classroom Management for Student Teachers: Routines, Directions, and Boundaries
Build classroom management as a student teacher by learning existing routines, giving clear directions, practicing responses, and taking over gradually.
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Your First Week of Student Teaching: What to Do Before You Take Over
A practical first-week student teaching checklist for observation, names, routines, mentor questions, small teaching jobs, and preparing for your first lesson.
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Education Acronyms and Teacher Jargon: A Plain-English Guide for Teachers
Education has enough acronyms to make a new teacher feel like everyone else received a secret decoder ring. This plain-English guide explains the education acronyms and teacher jargon you are most likely to hear, what they actually mean, and which terms are commonly confused.
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Trauma-Informed Teaching: What It Means, What It Doesn’t, and How Discipline Fits
A practical teacher-focused guide to trauma-informed teaching, discipline, de-escalation, accountability, and student safety.
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How to Handle Disrespectful Students Without Getting Pulled Into a Power Struggle
You correct a student. They answer back. You repeat the direction. They explain, loudly, why they are not going to do it. Now several students have stopped what they were doing because this has become much more interesting than the lesson. You can hear the edge entering your own voice. This is one of those…
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How to Keep Students on Task in the Classroom
Students are supposed to be working. Instead, one is sharpening a pencil for the third time. Two are discussing something that definitely is not the assignment. Another has been staring at the same blank page for five minutes. Someone is asking a question you answered thirty seconds ago. A student who finished early has become…
