Educational Articles For Educators

Effective Classroom Management: Free Workbook & Support Group for Teachers

8 Tips that Make Changing Grade Levels Easier
Embrace change with confidence! Transitioning to a new grade level? Turn uncertainty into excitement by adopting a positive mindset, collaborating with colleagues, and fine-tuning classroom setups. Discover new horizons in teaching!

10 End of the Year Activities that are Interactive and Fun
Teachers have a hard time keeping students focused. If your last month of school is like mine, you probably have already taught all the standards except social studies. Textbooks need to be collected (except for social studies, which you are cramming in from now until the end), so what do you do to keep students focused - and learning? The last month of school is the perfect time to fit in interactive activities and lessons that have high student engagement. I have made a list of my top ten interactive activities to use at the end of the school year

60 Treat Tags For Student Gifts & Rewards
As a teacher, finding affordable and fun ways to reward or give gifts to your students can be a challenge. I wanted my treats to be meaningful or useful, both of which could get expensive quickly. Some years I made handmade, personalized gifts, which took a lot of time to make - and didn’t end up being budget-friendly.
I knew there had to be an easier - and less expensive - way to treat my students.

5 Resources That Make Elementary Math Test Prep Fun

5 Effective ELA Test Prep Games that Make Review Fun
As an upper elementary and middle school ELA teacher, I hated using the standard test prep - give students a review question, then go over it. Rinse and repeat. It was so dry and boring - and it just wasn’t effective. The kids who most needed the review engaged with it the least!