Candyland Land Game Door Décor
Contributor: Karen Nolt | File type : Curricular
Decorate your classroom door with a Candy Land theme! Scroll down for a description of how Karen used this to motivate academic achievement.
Karen incorporated the theme into classroom management... Read More
Bookworm Reading Tracker Theme
Contributor: Karen Nolt | File type : Curricular
With this classroom theme, students write a bit about books they have read on a worm segment. Karen has each student tell the class about the book before adding their segment to the bookworm.
A pat... Read More
Teacher!
Contributor: Arlene Birt | File type : Blog Post
“Teachers have a big impact and people remember their teachers years later. I had lots of great teachers and they impacted and shaped who I am today. Whenever I think of my favorite teacher,... Read More
The Well is Dry
Contributor: Arlene Birt | File type : Blog Post
This is the first time I can remember that I've felt like maybe I can't go on, maybe I won't make it, and I'm not sure I want to try!
I don’t know what else to do with some of these students... Read More
Who Teaches Whom?
Contributor: Betty Yoder | File type : Blog Post
Students make great teachers.
Watching students often enables me to make connections between real life and specific Scriptures I am pondering. Today was such a time. In Sunday School we stu... Read More
Snapshots from My Classroom
Contributor: Arlene Birt | File type : Blog Post
Capturing a specific moment in time, painting a picture with words, a descriptive word picture—these are some ideas of a snapshot. I think of a snapshot as a photograph. I take a picture of a ... Read More
A Gift Received
Contributor: Betty Yoder | File type : Blog Post
In church this morning, our deacon preached on the fallacy of basing our identity on things that can be taken away and stressed the need to place our identity in Christ alone. Immediately, my mi... Read More
Why I Teach
Contributor: John Mark Kuhns | File type : Blog Post
In the middle of the school year, it can be good for us to step back and think about why we teach.
Early in my teaching career, a friend asked me why I teach. I described the feeling of satisfa... Read More
Twisted Fairness
Contributor: Betty Yoder | File type : Blog Post
Who of us hasn’t dealt with the “it’s not fair” syndrome? I mean personally, not just hearing from students.
I was thinking of this recently when I got bit by the bug – again. It ... Read More
Moments of Grace, Part 1
Contributor: Ruth Anna Kuhns | File type : Blog Post
Seventeen energetic children entered my classroom door on the first day of school. Bright-eyed. Eager.
I smiled. Only five new students this year. Settling into a routine should be quic... Read More
