Teaching in a Multilingual Classroom
Being an international teacher brings on a lot of questions, mostly about language and learning English - what languages do my students...
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- Sep 10, 2022
- 9 min
Teaching the Learner Profile Traits
A guide for IB PYP teachers; whether you a new or veteran teacher to the International Baccalaureate, teaching the learner profile traits...
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- Aug 21, 2022
- 5 min
Favorite First Week Activities
The school year has hardly ended in June when ideas and excitement for the next year start popping into my mind. I know I am not the only...
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- Aug 5, 2022
- 4 min
Back-to-School Book List for Elementary School Teachers
Whether you've taught for only one year or 15 years, choosing your back to school read aloud texts in elementary school is always a...
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- Jun 27, 2022
- 6 min
Teaching with an iPad: 8 Tips for being a Tech-y Teacher
If I could keep only one tool from my classroom, I wouldn't even need a minute to think. It's my iPad (with pencil, of course). How did I...
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- May 2, 2022
- 6 min
Creative Ways to Pre-Teach Vocabulary for Language Learners
You know when you're reading a story to your class, or teaching something that really needs good listening and then... there's little so...
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- Apr 13, 2022
- 5 min
Teaching in a Time of Coronavirus
Coronavirus came knocking at my door. Then let itself in.
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- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
Organizing a Classroom Library
I inherited a very tidy classroom, and for this I am incredibly grateful. Many teachers are not so lucky to have this. But still, it took...
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- Jan 30, 2022
- 4 min
A Teacher's 48 Favorite Google Fonts
I am a strong believer in using slides as a tool for teaching. Well... actually, it's more of a tool for learning, but more about that in...
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- May 17, 2021
- 4 min
5 Reasons Why You Should Teach Using Slides
If you’d have asked me five years ago about what came to mind when someone said, “I need to prepare presentation slides for my lesson” I...
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- Jul 28, 2020
- 3 min
6 Lessons Learned from Teaching Internationally
Each day I wake up and do my teacher thing. It’s so normal, right? But sometimes I get to thinking (I truly value that, thinking) and...
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- Jun 8, 2020
- 3 min
Reflections of a Teacher
The end of each school year calls for us teachers to look back and reflect on our teaching practices, to spend some time contemplating...
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- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
5 Creative Ways to Retell a Story
Perhaps you can remember from your own childhood, or have seen this in your kids or students - but children LOVE to reread the same books...
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