Open PDF Define cheating. In the case of written work, explain what plagiarism is, why it's wrong, and how to avoid it. This is especially important for students who struggle with irrational guilt due to an overly sensitive conscience. Use...

Open PDF Good sportsmanship contains the following core elements: Empathy—good sportsmanship requires actively understanding and feeling others’ perspectives and emotions. Respect—good sportsmanship treats all with dignity, valuing their...

Open PDF General Advice Helping students learn to relate to each other well can be a daunting and exhausting task. But it’s an important one. In these formative years, they are building relational habits that will stick with them for the...

Open PDF Addressing the Question “Why Do I Need to Know This?” At some point, your students will ask the infamous question, “Why do I need to know this?” There are a variety of approaches that could be taken in the way you answer them....

Open PDF It can be easy to assume that students intrinsically know how to study information effectively, b that is often not the case. There is a lot of value in making sure these work habits are explicitly taught, not merely “caught.”...

Open PDF Chapter Books Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John The Adventures of Peter Cottontail by Thorton W. Burgess The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh A Question of Yams by...

Open PDF Pedagogy The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory The Seven Laws of the Learner by Bruce Wilkinson Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov Reclaiming the Future of Christian Education by Albert E. Green Teaching to Change...

Open PDF It is not enough to simply view Christian schools as “the same as secular, minus the bad stuff.” It’s not just what we don’t do, it’s what we do do. So what is the vision of a Christian school? And how does a teacher go about...

Open PDF Reasons Why Recess Is Important The physical body is part of God’s good creation. Recess builds motor skills and coordination. Exercise relieves mental and emotional tension. Recess provides opportunities for learning relational...

Open PDF Your walls and room organization say a lot about your classroom atmosphere and your attitudes towards academics and your students. There are many subconscious messages that speak into the tone of your year. Think about what you...

Open PDF The Nature of Overload and Burnout Overload can be defined as excess demands impairing mental, physical, and emotional function. One can sustain short seasons of overload. Burnout, on the other hand, is a loss of enthusiasm and...

Open PDF General Advice and Teaching Tips Utilize pre-reading activities, which prepare students for what they are going to encounter in the text and get them interested in the story before they even start reading. Pre-reading activities...

Click, click, click! “There, it’s loading. It should be finished in about 30 minutes.” I’m impressed with the tech person’s expertise. My computer had “died” and lost all the data. After I sent the hard drive to a recovery company, I...

Photo by Matvey Smirnov on Unsplash History is actually a class where we learn about real people and true stories about what they did. It should be fascinating—not boring. Here are a few ways to make history more interesting for your...

When my son was four years old, he read his first chapter book alone: Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims . I did not know how much of it he could understand, but when the ending made him feel sad, I thought it a good sign. We picked a happier...

Image by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Due to COVID-19, many of us are experiencing a longer summer vacation than normal. And even if your summer vacation has not come early this year, many of us have not been able to have a normal classroom...

Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash If you’re on top of the world, this letter is not for you. Come back soon, on a day when you need it. Dear Teacher, I know you’re trying super hard. You started the school year with high hopes and good...

Are you ready for school to start? When people asked me that, I didn’t know how to answer! I was fine with school starting, but my classroom was certainly not ready. I was eager to be working with the class, but there were a lot of other...

Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.” Psalm 100:1 Psalms 100 is our current Bible memory selection. It has left me pondering about making a joyful noise. How do we make a joyful noise unto the...

Every other year, the high school juniors and seniors at our school must write a research paper. This paper must be at least 3,000 words, be properly formatted, contain in-text citations, and have a Works Cited page. The weeks leading up...