Focus on Five: Mentoring a Student Teacher
While a career in teaching can be challenging, I have found that mentoring a student teacher is great for remembering why I am so passionate about being an educator. Having […]
Focus on Five: Reading Small Groups
Small group instruction is essential to our students with diverse learning needs, especially when teaching a fundamental academic and life skill such as reading. It is important to group students […]
Focus on Five: January Activities
There are so many holidays within the first months of school, sometimes it can be a challenge to come up with themes or activities after December. Here are five themes […]
Focus on Five: Preparing for Standardized Testing
It is hard to imagine that we are nearly halfway through the school year and this is the time we start to think about standardized testing. I wrote a post […]
Focus on Five: Grading
While I have been teaching for many years, recently have reevaluated how I am grading my students. We just had parent teacher conferences at my school for the first quarter […]