Decrease Grading Time: How to Stop Grading Everything
The #1 complaint I hear from most secondary science teachers is how much time they spend grading and how desperately they wish they could decrease grading time. I 100% get it.
Welcome to the blog!
Browse by Category
Latest Posts
4 Tips to Make Lectures Engaging
I love labs, model-building, and inquiry-based activities like any good secondary science teacher – but I also still really enjoy lecturing. Lectures don’t have to be boring like the 300+ person lecture hall courses you took in college. You CAN make lectures engaging – and I am here to share with you my 4 best strategies (plus a bonus tip for all of you currently still teaching virtually #blessyou) for doing so.
Alternative Midterm Exams: 5 ideas for high school science teachers
I’ve been in several different teaching situations that have required evaluations and others that did not. But for the majority of my teaching experience, some sort of midterm and final exam were required (even in courses with state EOC exams – but don’t even get me started about that.)
Midyear Reset: 4 Ways to Hit the Reset Button and Reclaim your Class (and Life)
If you are reading this, I am assuming it is because you need a midyear reset – both for you and your students. Maybe this need to hit the reset button is due to a class that’s become impossible to manage. Or maybe it is because you are running at
Admin Support for Secondary Teachers that DOESN’T Cost Money
Admin support will make our break your job as a high school science teacher. More than any other job in K-12 education, high school teachers have the MOST additional responsibilities on their plate. This is in addition to lesson planning, grading, prepping labs, and actually, you know, teaching. Put the pressure of parents on secondary teachers to prepare their students for college, and the overwhelm can feel insurmountable at times.
Productive Planning Period: 5 ways to instantly increase your productivity
As a secondary science teacher, I can confidently say I know that you have 203948234 things on your plate on a daily basis. I can also confidently say that, if your teaching experience is anything like mine has been, you have something around 45 minutes built in a day (90
How to survive until winter break (when you don’t feel like you can make it)
It’s been a rough year (or years, let’s be real). You don’t know if you will make it until the end of the year, let alone think you will survive until winter break. I know this feeling well. You are not alone! And all hope is not lost! Here are
Tips for Teaching Physics in Physical Science
I’m a life science girl at heart. I was a biological sciences (pre-med) major all throughout college, before adding in a secondary science education double major during my junior year. Biology, anatomy, and chemistry have always been my favorites. So when I found out at my first teaching job I
Decrease Grading Time: 4 practical ways to cut your grading time in HALF
One of the biggest aches and pains I see in my inboxes and remember from my own time in the classroom full time is the burden of grading on high school teachers. This is a huge responsibility that differentiates our workload from that of elementary teachers – and on top
4 things to STOP doing to simplify your teacher life
I feel like if these last few years with the pandemic have taught us anything, it is that our plates are TOO full and life is TOO short. We should be working to live, not living to work. This is a huge part of why I am so passionate about helping teachers find work/life balance. Want to simplify your teacher life so you can have more time and energy for THE REST OF YOUR LIFE??
How to use Cornell Notes in High School Science
Teaching students how to take notes is a huge part of being a high school science teacher – whether we want it to be or not. I am excited to share with you how to use Cornell notes, as it has been a method I never set out to be
Labs on a Budget
If you are reading this, I am guessing (and hoping) you found me because you are a science teacher. Because of this, I know that labs are a huge part of what you do. But if your teaching situation is anything like mine was for 4 years of my career,
