Classroom Management: Having a Vision and Teaching with Urgency

Maintaining a classroom environment that is conducive for learning is one of the most difficult tasks many teachers face in today’s classrooms. Teachers have entered a new age of classroom management (Hardin, 2008). Students of today are not the same as students ten or twenty years ago; students of the past came to school preparedContinue reading “Classroom Management: Having a Vision and Teaching with Urgency”

Building and Fostering Relationships

In the new year, I aim to build new relationships, nurture current relationships, and mend broken relationships where possible. In education, especially in middle level education, relationships are essential to successfully educating young minds. Learning from someone who you don’t know is difficult. Remembering my school years, I often think about my most memorable teachers,Continue reading “Building and Fostering Relationships”