Misty

It is no secret that many of our students don’t come to us reading on grade level. It can be easy to become overwhelmed at the wide discrepancies in the reading skills of our students! I have found that focusing on using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words is beneficial for students […]

I knew my first year teaching would be difficult. I read books about classroom management in anticipation. I had nightmares that my students wouldn’t listen to me. I worried that I would run out of things for them to do in class and everything would devolve into fiery chaos. There was one thing, however, that […]

Every teacher has had a day where everything went wrong and you felt like you had no control over your class at all. One particularly horrifying moment in my teaching career was when I was walking an unruly class back from lunch. They were literally (and I am using literally correctly) screaming and lying down […]