Digital Task Cards Make Teaching Easy!
Boom Learning™ is a year old! I can’t believe it has been a year since I first started with the BoomLearning™ platform to create BoomCards™ task cards as part of the Beta group. If you haven’t heard of this App before, you are seriously missing out! The BoomLearning™ platform for digital task cards which can […]
Teacher Time Saving Tip 6
My students loved getting involved in the class. I taught sixth grade and they were all eager to do anything (well, most of them). One way I got my students involved was we set up a daily cleaning roster, where a group of students would stay behind on a certain day to do some ‘cleaning’. […]
Teacher Time Saving Tip 5
I am one of those people… when I’m asked to volunteer for something, whether it be retyping a worksheet or heading up the English department, I can’t say NO! This is a problem for me! Sometimes my plate was so full and I was stretched so thin that I felt I was not coping. […]
Teacher Time Saving Tip 4
Some admin or planning tasks take far more time and effort than others (like those ones done in Tip 2). Schedule a time for these tasks when you know you have a fair amount of time to really get into it. Also find a spot where distractions will be limited. If you work best […]
Teacher Time Saving Tip 3
Have you ever arranged a parent conference, where it be in person or on the phone, and it seems as though there is no end? It is so nice to have a good chat to parents about all kinds of things, but it is not so nice when they leave and you realize that for […]
Teacher Time Saving Tip 2
We all have our favorite TV shows and I’m not sure about you but once the show is over I regret wasting the time watching, instead of working. I then realized that there were some things meant to do while watching! I would cut, paste, laminate, staple or sort while my show was on. Before […]
Teacher Time Saving Tip 1
Teachers are known to be over worked and not have time for themselves. For the next few weeks, I will be offering a Teacher Time Saving Tip which I hope will give you an extra few minutes in your day to do something for yourself. So here we go… Phone conferences can take up a […]