Author: Yussif

  • How to Restore Your Passion for Teaching

    How to Restore Your Passion for Teaching

    If you’re like many educators, then your job’s toll on you- the long hours, the demanding parents, and the lack of appreciation for those who dedicate their lives to educating each generation- has taken its toll. It’s easy to think that teaching is a thankless and unfulfilling profession. But if you want to preserve your…

  • 20 Tips to Survive Your First Year Teaching

    20 Tips to Survive Your First Year Teaching

    Finishing your first year in your teaching career can be extremely frustrating for you. Your inexperience coupled with your workload can be overwhelmingly stressful for you.   As a new teacher, you may even consider changing your career due to the pressure that comes with teaching. I have experienced that in my first year of…

  • 15 Things Teachers Worry About Today

    15 Things Teachers Worry About Today

    Are you a newbie or an experienced teacher? There are certain issues that you worry about from time to time in your career.   At the end of every holiday, teachers are always worried because they will be going back to school.Like experienced teachers, new teachers are also worried because they will be teaching for…

  • How to Motivate the Unmotivated Students in Your Classroom?

    How to Motivate the Unmotivated Students in Your Classroom?

    Wouldn’t life be easy if every student appeared in school eager to learn? Many teachers bemoan that students just aren’t as motivated as they used to be. Whether that phenomenon is true or not, the reality is that the students in your classroom are the ones you have to teach. In every classroom, there have…

  • How to Get to Know Your Students?

    How to Get to Know Your Students?

    Spending time getting to know your students is one of the most valuable investments you can make. Establishing rapport helps build mutual respect and minimize classroom behavior problems. A deeper understanding of your students’ needs, problems, and interests will enable you to plan instruction that succeeds. In this article, I will take you through some…

  • Jacob Kounin’s Ripple Effect: How to Use It in Your Classroom?

    Jacob Kounin’s Ripple Effect: How to Use It in Your Classroom?

    The Kounin Ripple Effect is named after Jacob S. Kounin, who first identified it in 1977. He noted that if the teacher of an elementary school class is friendly and helpful, respectful, and interested in students as people, then students tend to develop those same qualities. This means that teachers who want to improve learning…

  • 41 Effective Classroom Management Strategies for New Teachers

    41 Effective Classroom Management Strategies for New Teachers

    As a newbie teacher, you might be thinking of how to teach and do that effectively. You might also be feeling less confident when you think of how to apply what you have learned in class in the field. Don’t worry you are not alone in that situation. Every experienced and effective teacher has been…

  • Classroom Rules: How to Create and Enforce Them Effectively

    Classroom Rules: How to Create and Enforce Them Effectively

    Classroom management is a critical part of formal education. That is, you can increase the level of success of your students if you are able to manage your classroom successfully and effectively. Teachers, both experienced and beginners, work extremely hard to become masters in classroom management. At the beginning of my career, there were some…

  • How To Deal With Fights In The Classroom?

    How To Deal With Fights In The Classroom?

    It’s hard to have a classroom that is conflict-free, but there are ways of dealing with students who fight. In some cases, you may need to remove the student from the classroom and let them cool off for a bit. In other instances, you can try talking it out with both parties involved in the…

  • Thomas Gordon Model of Discipline: How To Use It?

    Thomas Gordon Model of Discipline: How To Use It?

    The Thomas Gordon Model of Discipline is a model for teaching and managing classroom behavior. It was developed by Dr. Thomas Gordon in the 1960s, and it has been used extensively in schools around the world since then. The most notable feature of this model is that it assumes that all children want to learn…