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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
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that, as a language teacher, I love words. I love reading them and I love writing them. However, that is not the case with many students. In fact, most of the ELLs I taught disliked reading—and rarely did it for pleasure unless
Well, this is the final Building Back to School post in #TeacherMom’s blog hop. Today I am going to write about a writing tool that I found indispensable in my teaching. (This post contains affiliate links. That means that I make a small commission if you purchase any of the
I know that in many places in the U.S., school has already started but today is the day teachers in my former school district in Massachusetts go back to school. There is one in-service day of meetings and getting classrooms ready—though most teachers have already spent at least a week
In today’s Building Back to School Tools blog series, hosted by #TeacherMom, I am going to write about a Reading Tool that was invaluable to me. Have you ever had middle school students who were reading way below their grade level? Not only did they have difficulty comprehending academic text,
Implementing a homework help program is a lot of work and if you want to continue to run such a program after the first year, you’ll want to be able to show administrators that it was a success. In Part One of this series, I explained how to set up
If, after doing a needs analysis (as I described in last week’s post), you decide to go ahead and implement a homework help program, below are 10 recommendations that will help make your program a success. First, make participants aware of the rules. You can post them in your room,
