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After spending a week at my alma mater at Penn State Altoona, my heart is full after getting to spend an entire week sharing my story as a teacher turned entrepreneur with student teachers l…

Learning parts of speech is necessary, but it does not have to be boring. Grammar games reinforce a particular language feature, such as prepositional phrases, without putting students to sleep. Middle school students actually look forward to grammar lessons when learning involves playing games that require thinking ...

Faculty share the strategies they use to engage students in discussion, manage dominant talkers and nontalkers, and steer a discussion that’s gone off track.

When you implement a new procedure, it is not enough to simply tell your students what you expect of them. You have to practice – and practice everything.

Need ideas for seating arrangements in your classroom? On this page, you’ll find tips on arranging student desks in four different formations, complete with photos from My Classroom Tours. You can click on most of the pictures to view the complete tour for that particular room. Whether you’re looking for a classroom seating chart, seating map, … Continued

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Kayla Hair on Instagram: "Another thing I add in before we use our decodables are phonemic awareness skills like rhyming, matching beginning, middle and ending sounds, isolate and substitute sounds, blending etc. We give a PA test three times a year but I am constantly updating it as students begin to master a skill. I love always going back and reviewing skills as research shows you should give yourself 4-6 weeks for students to retain a phonics skills (even if the curriculum pacing is much…

If you and your boyfriend are struggling to be comfortable with each other -- take heart. Shyness during adolescence is common, and is often a learned behavior that can be unlearned, suggests Indiana University Southeast's Shyness Research Institute. Shy teens in a relationship may face more hurdles than outgoing ...

Help set your students up for success with these classroom management tips! Setting expectations is an important part of classroom management and today's discussion comes on the heels of my participation in the recent

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