Lining up your class is one of the classroom basics that you really need to master early on in your teaching career.
Your Class – Lining up and moving around the school or venue
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Category Archives: Personal Teaching
Do we need School rules for Primary children?
School Rules – we all remember them and all schools have them…but just what is the purpose of them and how effective are they at Primary School level?
Building your confidence in Primary school teaching
Confidence is a great thing to have in life – we look around and seem to see people who have lots of confidence all the time. Yet how do we get that in our lives and more importantly in our chosen profession – TEACHING.
Buying lesson plans online? – why its not a great idea!
I really had no idea that this would be a topic for an article – until, that was, I was looking for examples for yesterdays lesson plan article. Continue reading
Primary School – Medium Term planning
Medium Term planning – lets make a start on this area of the planning system.
Class Screens – what do we see in them ?
The technological age arrived in the Primary classroom with the introduction of the “class screen” which was going to revolutionise teaching and bring everything into the 21st Century and beyond (sound like Buzz Lightyear!)
So how has this progressed and what have been the results – well in my opinion ….mixed and here’s why.
Classroom behaviour management – a straightforward approach (2)
Lets have a quick recap as to where we are with this.
Having set our expectations high for the work in the classroom and also implemented the sanctions that apply for work that is done incorrectly or to a poor standard – we are now going to extend this towards behaviour in the classroom.
Primary school Art -making it easier!
Just as an added extra I thought I would give you my impressions about materials to use in Art lessons that make life a little easier.
Be ready….Art
Welcome back to the flip side of the 2 part blog “Be ready” – we’ve already had a look at P.E lessons and if you haven’t looked at that then I recommend you hop there after this.
Be ready…. P.E lessons
When tutors come to watch students in the classroom, 2 of the lessons they want to see are Art and P.E – why?
Well there’s an easy answer to that – its because art and p.e are the 2 lessons that require the most organisation and also they are the one’s that can go wrong if you do not plan and execute them properly…and yes they are right !