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Hi, I’m Amy Mezni!

Over my twenty plus years in education, I worked on four continents, as well as in traditional classrooms, online and homeschool.

I combine all of these experiences in Teaching Ideas 4U resources and tools to help YOU both in and out of the classroom!

FEATURED EDUCATIONAL ARTICLES BY AMY MEZNI

Ten Simple Strategies to Re-Energize Your Lessons

Teachers work hard to get to know their students and build a classroom community. They also spend time studying and analyzing their learning standards. As a teacher, once you have done all that, you need to decide how to present your lessons. How you organize the...

12 Attention-Grabbing Ways To Begin Your Lesson

Lesson starters. Openers. Attention Grabbers. Hooks. Call them what you will, but we all have our go-to ways to start a lesson in our classroom. Well, I rounded up my top 12 ways to get students' attention as you start your lesson. Top 12 Ways To Get Students'...

How To Support Your Struggling Readers

I love teaching. I really do! There are so many aspects of teaching that I enjoy and wouldn't change. But there is one thing I used to dread. I used to dread teaching students reading. I never felt like I could give all of my students the help they needed. There were...