To Do List for Week 0 & 1
Week 00, Week 0, Week 1! These have to be some of the craziest weeks as a teacher in preparation for the coming year. Amidst all the “how were your…
Author: educationalist
Pay Teachers Overtime!
Teacher hours are a hotly debated topic. Some claim to do over 70 hours a week, while others seem to cruise through by arriving just before the students do, then…
The Importance Of Reading To A Child From A Young Age
What is the importance of reading to a child from a young age? From the moment I was born, my mother would do two significant things that have helped develop…
The Talkative Classroom: Noise Volume Control Methods
Being known as the teacher with ‘loud’ classrooms and the teacher who can manage ‘loud’ classrooms brings me great joy to share some of my classroom noise volume control methods…
Teaching Tip: Gaining Attention via Deliberate Mistakes
I was in senior school, and like many senior schoolers, I spent large amounts of my time in the classroom daydreaming. That was until my math teacher started making regular…
How to Teach Honesty and the Understanding of Perspective!
– An important lesson to give all children Whether it be at home or in the schoolyard, how often does one child come to you to tell you about another…
Is the University system becoming outdated?
Only the most intellectual and capable humans could go to University, get a higher education, and then get employment in an above-average-paying field. Today, you can make money through many…
How a mentor can leave a positive impact on your child
It wasn’t too long into my teaching career when I witnessed the impact parents had on their children. Whether it be positive or negative, a child’s best and worst traits…
“I’m a Superhero!” Improved behaviour by modelling a Superhero
Bad egg! Horrible kid! Evil! Devil! – These are only a few, of many labels that I have heard children be named. And trust me, they can get worse. Honestly…
Kick-start a child’s reading ability with the visual reading of words
Ever since humanity began to read, we were taught to sound out the words. We were taught to read ‘phonetically!’ And of course, the phonetic method of reading is the…
