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- Getting to know them
- In The First Year, page 1.5
- Getting to know your students as real people makes your classroom a more effective learning environment.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Creating a safe space for students to take academic risks
- In The First Year, page 1.6
- A classroom culture that encourages students to take academic risks starts with the teacher.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- A successful day? Engaging your students may not be enough
- In The First Year, page 2.1
- To ensure that you meet your objectives, plan backwards from what you want students to learn.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Making connections between concepts
- In The First Year, page 2.3
- To help students connect what they're learning, make your expectations clear and ask them what they understand and what isn't working.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Connecting with colleagues: No tricks, all treat!
- In The First Year, page 2.4
- You're busy, but making time for conversation with colleagues will pay off in the long run.
- Format: article
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- James and the Giant Pencil: Lessons in classroom management
- In The First Year, page 2.7
- Don't back your students into a corner, and don't make discipline the focus of your class.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Three weeks and counting: What winter break might really mean
- In The First Year, page 2.9
- Your students might not be looking forward to a break in their routine as much as you think.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- New beginnings
- In The First Year, page 2.11
- Treat January as an opportunity to start fresh, in your relationships with students and colleagues and in your classroom management and instruction.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Welcome back!
- In The First Year, page 3.1
- Many of my friends are in professions other than teaching, and one January evening I listened as one of those friends described how much he loved the first day back at work after the winter holidays. He detailed that day, depicting a slow morning devoted to...
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Who's holding the pencil? And did anybody learn?
- In The First Year, page 3.4
- Demonstrations can be useful, but be aware of what students are doing and thinking while you're holding the pencil.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Valentine's Day: Love it? Or love it not?
- In The First Year, page 3.5
- Don't let holidays overwhelm the focus on learning.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- March Madness and relationship-building
- In The First Year, page 3.9
- Taking time away from instruction to build relationships with your students can pay off in the long run.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- “I am very sorry. It is going to happen again”
- In The First Year, page 4.2
- Maintain your commitment to classroom organization and management all the way through the end of the year.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Picture this
- In The First Year, page 4.5
- I have one picture of my students that I absolutely love. In the background of the photo, you can see the west wall of our classroom. That wall was covered in positive messages I had posted throughout the year, all intended to help students stay focused and...
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- The end (for now)
- In The First Year, page 4.5
- I was a first-year teacher, driving to school and thinking about a thousand things I should have done yesterday and a thousand more that required my attention as soon as possible. If I hadn't needed both hands on the steering wheel, I would have started adding...
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Montagnards
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 13
- The region around Mai Chau is home to ethnic minorities sometimes known in Vietnam as “hill tribes” or Montagnards (“mountain people”). In this part of northern Vietnam, the highland minority groups are mostly speakers of Tai languages,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Caring for children
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 20
- Throughout Southeast Asia, but especially in highland farming areas, children of both sexes are considered precious and vulnerable. Adults and teens of both sexes and all ages generally enjoy caring for young children. They find it an amusing and relaxing...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Comics in the classroom
- Graphic novels aren't just “literature lite”: they're a genre you can use to explore philosophy, history, human interactions, visual literacy, and more with soon-to-be adults in a high school English class.
- Format: article
- By Ross White.
- How do I use all this data?
- An eight-step checklist and questions for making use of various kinds of education data.
- By Chris Hitch and Ken Jenkins.
- Persuasive speaking: A classroom model
- In Arts of persuasion, page 3
- A plan for teaching persuasive speaking in the middle school classroom, with tips for speakers and on how to recognize bias.
- By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
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