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Although schools in the U.S. are on vacation now because of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, do you know when schools in other countries begin their academic year? It makes a difference if you have children arriving mid-way through your own school year because the decision about which grade
Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and ends, of looking back and looking forward… Image of Janus on a coin; source: Wikimedia Commons It’s traditional at the end of a year to reflect back on the previous 365 days and try to objectively analyze how things worked out and then
When I was in high school, my parents pulled my sister and me out of school for nine days to go on a trip to another country. They’d gotten a fantastic deal and didn’t want to pass it up; they also thought it would be a good opportunity for us
This week continues with the second installment in my Education Around the World series with a guest post by Paul Bougie from TpT store Creative Couple in Quebec, Canada. I am especially pleased to welcome Paul because I spent a wonderful summer studying French in Quebec City many years ago.
Teaching can be a solitary and often thankless job: Teachers toil and burn the midnight oil, children’s tempers boil, administrators may foil sound lesson ideas, and education in the U.S. roils with reformers and politicians who think they know what ails the teaching profession. It’s enough to spoil the idealism
Je suis triste. I am sad. Coat of arms of the City of Paris; source: Bluebear2 via Wikimedia Commons I was going to write this week’s post about being thankful and tying it in somehow to promoting my one and only Thanksgiving product. I hadn’t planned it out though and
There were a lot of students whose families emigrated to the US from India in the school district in which I worked and I taught many Indian students during my time there. Even though Indian cuisine is one of my favorites, I didn’t know much about India when I first
English Language Learners and their families come from all over the globe and bring their cultures with them. Even for ELLs who were born in the US and have always lived here, if their parents and/or other relatives were raised in another country, their children will absorb those customs and
Today I am finally going to share with you my #1 tactic on how to manage behavior in middle school classrooms. It is…drumroll, please: Yoga balls! I have five tips to offer if you are considering using yoga balls, as well as what some of my rules are for using
I hope I do not disappoint anyone but I am going to postpone my third and final post about behavior management for older students until next week — please come back next Monday to find out what my favorite tactic is for middle school students. Instead, since it’s the beginning
This is the second of three posts about tactics I used to help manage the behavior of my middle school students. You can find the first post here and next week, I’ll write about my favorite tactic. Today, I am going to discuss two things that helped my students control
After a few weeks of school, I could tell which of my students were going to be a challenge in terms of behavior. If I had had students the previous school year, I already knew a lot about them but things can change over the summer so I always tried
