Why You Should Set Classroom Expectations and Not Rules
Why should you choose to set classroom expectations instead of classroom rules? No classroom runs efficiently without classroom rules, right? As teachers, we know that having rules for student behavior is a foundation of good classroom management. The first days of school are always spent teaching and reviewing these rules that are supposed to […]
Setting Goals with Young Students
Raise those test scores! Master the standards! Increase reading levels! It seems every meeting a teacher sits through these days is based on some variation of these messages. We’re asked to set goals for every student, and we leave these meetings feeling overloaded, overwhelmed, and often just ‘over it’, in general. What’s the Goal of […]