Group recess games are a staple of every school playground, but sometimes teachers and students alike can grow weary of playing the same ones over and over again. Here are a few recess games you might consider adding to your...

If we aren’t careful, our teaching can become a simple transaction of knowledge. The teacher gives information, the student receives it. End of story. While there are some situations where this is the most effective way for a...

What is the most dreaded aspect of teaching? Is it parent-teacher meetings? The endless stacks of grading that tower over you at report card time? Dealing with a disgruntled parent? Handling interpersonal student drama? For some...

Can one simple line of praise affect how a child will perform in the future? Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck and her team of researchers discovered that it most certainly can. In an experiment conducted on 400 fifth-graders,...

Academic struggles. High-energy boys. Negative attitudes about school. Apathy. Every class comes with its own unique set of issues—and we feel more equipped to deal with some of them than others. One year in my teaching career,...

It’s been several years since I’ve been in the classroom on a daily basis, but I can still remember the special kind of exhaustion that resulted from particularly disrespectful students. Sometimes, I felt that I was throwing so...

Consider this scenario: You are teaching art class, and things are not going according to schedule. In what you now realize was a moment of temporary insanity, you chose a project that included white glue and glitter. Now you are...

What I do doesn’t matter So you’ll never convince me that The words I say and the things I do are important Every new day of challenges can remind me that I’m not making progress It’s a lie to think I am making a difference in my...

There are many things that can create pockets of unexpected time in your classroom. Maybe it’s a fire drill that disrupts your math class, leaving you with an awkward ten minutes to fill and students that are too hyped up to...

God of love, who is Love Himself, Please pour Your love on me. I am weak, needy, and imperfect, and I need You to teach me how to love as You love. Remind me that I am undeserving of your grace to me, yet You freely give it...

God of miracles, God of the unusual and unexpected, and God of the extraordinary, You are also a God of my ordinary days. Thank You that You are present in the mundane. Thank You that no happening is too small for You to notice....

Where I live in Southern Ontario, autumn comes with startling beauty every year. There’s the invigorating crispness of the cooler air. There’s the almost-impossibly blue skies, framed by the riotous reds and yellows of the trees....

What if I told you the most important thing you can teach your students is not in a textbook? I believe this is true, though I hold learning in the highest regard. As a teacher, your job is to teach content, striving for academic...

Dear First-Year Teachers, I don’t know if you realize this or not, but you have embarked on a wonderful, terrifying, incredible journey. You’ve raised your sails, and you’ve left the safety of the harbour—there’s no turning back...

The first page of the Bible begins with a dazzling narrative. The God of the universe takes the chaos and waste world and turns it into a place teeming with life—a place that is called good. But after completing this important...