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Productive Mornings – Where You Are Ready to Meet Your Writing Goals
It seems crazy that we’d have to organize ourselves to get our writing done, but anyone who is a writer knows that. We also know we can do all sorts of “activities” in the morning that keep us from...
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Using Visual Thesaurus
Writers love words. That’s a bold statement, don’t you think?! Given that we love words, here’s a tool for exploring words and expanding your writing: Visual Thesaurus. I have been an aficionado for...
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Favorite PC Keystroke Timesavers by Randy Dean
As a time management, productivity, and e-mail efficiency expert (and writer), I’m always looking for ways to find a few seconds here and there in things I’m already doing anyway. You can recover a...
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Top Ten Tips to Kitchen Organizing by Janet Schiesl, CPO
Have you ever been digging in your cabinets and thought to yourself “I know it’s in here somewhere?” Do you sometimes feel like an explorer, on your knees with a flashlight, trying to locate a...
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Dealing with Interruptions
Recognize that essentially everyone’s job involves interruptions of one type or another. We can acknowledge that and still figure out ways to keep the interruptions from wreaking havoc on the rest of...
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Having an Energized Morning
As an entrepreneur – regardless of whether you have a home office or you have an office someplace else – you want to be able to get going in the morning so that you can begin to create, write, meet...
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Top Ten Tips for Effective Communication
While it is impossible to teach a person to be an effective communicator in the two minutes it will take you to read this email, there are certain commonalities that effective communicators possess....
View ArticleUsing Visual Thesaurus by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
Teachers love words – or at least all of you who are reading this week’s tips love words! Given that we love words – and all kinds of learning - here’s a tool for exploring words and expanding your...
View ArticleClassroom Management by Gini Cunningham
Classroom management is the way you set up your class so that it is conducted in such a way that it offers fairness and opportunity to learn for every student in your care. Classroom management is not...
View ArticleUsing Layered Curriculum by Cheryl Hecht, M.Ed.
Layered Curriculum is an easy way to differentiate activities for different abilities and give students input into their learning. Students are offered choices in activities they complete and grades...
View ArticleLesson and Unit Plans by Gini Cunningham
Lesson plans guide your daily instruction; unit plans expand over weeks and tie lesson to lesson to attain big goals and achievement. While no lesson ever goes exactly as planned and adjustments often...
View ArticleClassroom Conversations by Beverly Delidow
If you have taught for any length of time, you’ve heard it. In the middle of a lecture you ask a question, expecting that among the eager faces in front of you there is at least one brave soul who will...
View ArticleKeeping It All Together (Part 1) by Dorit Sasson
Note from Meggin: If you are reading this early in the school year, just print and save so that you have it when the right time comes. With just a few months left until the end of the school year,...
View ArticlePaperwork Management (Part 2) by Terra Graves
Here are some more ideas to help you manage your paperwork in the classroom. To identify work, assign each student a number (usually the number next to their name in the grade book). You can also...
View ArticleHelp Kids Become Clutter Busters by Rita Emmett
Note from Meggin: There are times you probably feel like your students’ parents – but of course, you are not. Their real parents might appreciate this list of tips, which are shared by guest author,...
View ArticleMake Learning Physical and Visual by Linda Evans
One of the best ways to help your students learn a new concept is to connect it to something they already know. These various concepts that they already know are called Background Knowledge. Second...
View ArticleWhat to Establish in Your Classroom
Each of the following could be (and might be) its own “Top Ten” in upcoming weeks. For now, though, know that these are ten factors to address for a classroom where you can teach and your students can...
View ArticleIrritating Your Co-workers by Kimberly Medlock
It is up to you how you want to share this list, but it might be one to take to a staff meeting so that you can come up with some policies that everyone will abide by (or to determine some additional...
View ArticleCritical Thinking through Class Discussion by Sue Vaughn
Class discussion should be an exciting opportunity for learning. If students (or you) feel that you could miss class discussions with no loss, then you may need to revise your methods. Recognize that...
View ArticleSaving Teacher Materials by Sue Vaughn
There’s nothing more frustrating (or at least not by much) than knowing you did a bang-up job with a unit last year, but not being able to put your hands on it this year. Don’t let it happen again....
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