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5 Productivity Skills Every Educator Must Have. Smart Classroom Technologies Page 3 of 3 5 Productivity Skills Every Educator Must Have 5) Managing Learning and Students.

5 Productivity Skills Every Educator Must Have

Take a Risk and Find Your Voice as a Teacher. Last year, I boldly introduced Twitter to my class of Pre-Service Teachers.

Take a Risk and Find Your Voice as a Teacher

Twitter Chats have been transformative to me, giving me access to expertise across a range of topics, as well as supporting, fuelling and inspiring me. Flame – PublicDomainPictures (Pixabay) So I was passionate in my desire to get my students all aboard the Twitter Express. To say they were surprised with my Twitter emphasis is an understatement. Getting Started: The Most Useful Resources For New Teachers.

First-day jitters are not the exclusive domain of students.

Getting Started: The Most Useful Resources For New Teachers

Teachers also worry about what to wear, how to act, how to make a good first impression, and how the school year will turn out. If you are a fresh face on the teaching scene — or even if you’re just looking for new ways to hone your teaching skills — the following resources will help you get going. Building Relationships With Students, Parents, and Others Building solid relationships with your students and their parents can help you adjust your teaching methods so that learning can be more personalized for your pupils. Eat. Write. Teach.: My Top 5 Tricks for Successful Classroom Management. We all manage our classrooms differently because we are all different.

Eat. Write. Teach.: My Top 5 Tricks for Successful Classroom Management

Even all of the teachers in my English department (and there are only 6 of us!) Manage our classes very differently. There's nothing wrong with that, unless your solution is to ignore the problem until it gets right in your face. That might be a classroom management issue. 9 Ways to Beat the Clock & Get More Done in Your Class - Teach 4 the Heart. Teachers are always racing against the clock.

9 Ways to Beat the Clock & Get More Done in Your Class - Teach 4 the Heart

And the race is never more fierce than when we’re trying to pack a year’s worth of lessons into not enough way-too-short class periods. Throw in snow days, field trips, and school production rehearsals, and all of a sudden the challenge starts to feel impossible. How to Identify and Keep Exceptional Young Teachers.