Beginning of the Year Strategies

“How to Enjoy Your Students While Your Students Enjoy Science”, Stacey Singleton The first day of school is the most important day of the year. What you do to establish procedures and expe... See More

“How to Enjoy Your Students While Your Students Enjoy Science”, Stacey Singleton The first day of school is the most important day of the year. What you do to establish procedures and expectations carries through the entire year. Even though I am a veteran teacher, I really enjoy new activities especially since I can have students for both 7th and 8th grade. I like the first day activity, “Who is Your Teacher?” The authors share the use of schoolnotes.com as a method of keeping in contact with parents and students that need a place to access homework assignments. This is a paid resource where you get a free 30 day trial and can create up to ten Schoolnotes pages and then you have to pay for the service with a premium account being $24.95 a month. A similar tool that is free is https://www.schoology.com/home.php that is completely free and performs a similar function. The classroom management techniques offers a unique suggestion of open and closed hand when either asking or responding to a question. There are other strategies offered that would be particularly useful to a new classroom teacher.

Hints for Classroom Management

This teacher has some very interesting ways to manage a classroom. The first day she has a unique way to get to know the students and have the students get to know her. She also has an inte... See More

This teacher has some very interesting ways to manage a classroom. The first day she has a unique way to get to know the students and have the students get to know her. She also has an interesting way of students raising their hands...an open hand means they want to ask a question and a closed hand means they want to answer the question. This article would be perfect for new teachers.