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4 MUST DO Teacher Self-Care Tips

Now MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, teachers need to be conscious about caring for themselves. Teaching is already a stressful takes-everything-out-of -you-mentally-and-emotionally type of career, but now throw in a pandemic to the mix and schools requiring teachers to balance in person, virtual, and/or hybrid teaching models, and it takes it to a whole other level. These are my 4 MUST-DO tips for teacher ... Read More about 4 MUST DO Teacher Self-Care Tips

Building Relationships with Students: Tips for High School Teachers

Building relationships with my students has always been incredibly important to me, and the reason why I am still connected to a lot of my old students, despite being out of the classroom for 2 years now! Likewise, teaching is about so much more than the content we share with our students. My most memorable teachers are the ones that I felt really knew me and cared about me. If we want our ... Read More about Building Relationships with Students: Tips for High School Teachers

My Favorite Classroom Management Strategy

The first school I taught in had semester block scheduling - the kind where you taught 4 classes a day, every day for 90 minutes, but got new students in January. My first semester went surprisingly smooth. Why had I been so worried about classroom management? I didn't need to read all those books that I read. Having my own class was a breeze compared to trying to commandeer my mentor ... Read More about My Favorite Classroom Management Strategy

Why You Should Be Using YouTube in Your Secondary Classroom

Travel to any classroom across the world and you will find teachers with mixed opinions about the use of technology in the education of their students. But nowadays it really isn't avoidable anymore, and thus the questions have evolved from, "Should we use technology?" to "How much should we use? What are the most effective tools for use? Are students really engaging with these methods?" I ... Read More about Why You Should Be Using YouTube in Your Secondary Classroom

Anatomy and Physiology Scope and Sequence

Course Overview When I set out to write an anatomy and physiology full year curriculum, I was excited about all of the opportunities that lay ahead. I've never designed a curriculum for an elective course before, a course that many states lack standards for (although I did make sure to study each state's standards that did have them to incorporate as many as possible into the resources.) This ... Read More about Anatomy and Physiology Scope and Sequence