8 Reflection Questions for Teachers
What reflection questions should I think about at the end of a school year?
What is the secret to students enjoying themselves?
Have you ever wondered what teaching was like on the other side of the world?
How to make my day “suck less”?
My top tips to squeeze a little fun into your day in the classroom and make the not-so-enjoyable aspects well… suck a little less.
How do I keep from misplacing a kindergartener?
One time I asked a normally very well behaved student to sit at my back table because he couldn’t stop talking at his table group. I told him he needed to not talk to anyone while he was at that table so that the rest of the class could finish up their projects before…
What the heck is Backwards Design?
This week, I sat in on a district training session with my new teachers about the Backwards Design model for lesson planning and one leaned over and whispered, “What if I don’t even know how to Forward Design yet?”
How do I spot a fake allergy?
“I was handing out snacks at our Winter Party when a student told me he didn’t want any of the cheese because he wasn’t allowed to eat it because he was allergic. How am I only hearing about this now? In DECEMBER? And isn’t cheese dairy, so does that mean all dairy??
Projectile Vomit? Cool. Now what?
The twisting of the face… the look of panic in the eyes… the stomach grab… the “I don’t feel so good”… it all happens in slow motion.