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 leaving not long after the students leave. Yet, the salary…
Category: Case Studies
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 with you. If your classroom is anything like mine, highly…
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 math mistakes on the whiteboard. When the mistakes first started,…
Is the University system becoming outdated?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 different avenues. You could get a trade, licensing to work…
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 often come from their parents’ actions. From birth, everything a child…
“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 speaking, I can even put my hand up and say…
How to train a child to be successful
How do you train a child to be successful?Millionaires! Billionaires! Entrepreneurs! Influencers! All share a universal message to people who want to be successful. “You need to stand out from the pack! To be the outlier! You need to be…
Are overprotective parents really protecting their children?
Our protective instincts start from the moment we hear the words “you’re pregnant!” During this time, most women (and some partners) give up drinking, smoking, eating certain favourite foods, and even harmful types of exercises. Why? Because we want what’s…
Do parenting behaviours shape a child’s personality?
Have you ever seen a young child yelling at their parents to get what they want? Maybe it was your child yelling at you? What was your response? A smack? Yell back? Time out? As a parent or a teacher,…
Is that child naughty, or doing the right thing the wrong way?
“Morning year 5’s, please stay seated, and copy today’s to-do list in your planner as I write it upon the board!”“Gage! What are you doing out of your chair?”This is such a typical response as a teacher! Students walking when they…
