I had the most difficult and challenging year of my life in the classroom last year. I had a ton of management issues, low student performance, and basically anything else that could go wrong went wrong. After a year like that, I knew I had two options: look for another line of work (like Burger King, for example), or … Read More
Why Your Students Act Out: 4 Ways to Lessen Discipline Problems in Your Classroom
We’ve all been through professional development that made us want to pull out our hair or crawl out of our skin. As the speaker drones on, or reads a powerpoint, all you can think is: “When is lunch?”, “How much longer?”, “I already know how to do this!!!”, or maybe even, “I’m totally lost!…they aren’t making any sense!”. While I can … Read More
