by Creation Castle | Classroom, New Teacher
Lesson planning with purpose is crucial for all teachers. State mandated learning objectives serve as a framework for what students are expected to learn and what you are expected to teach in a given subject or grade level. In Texas, that means we are looking at the...
by Creation Castle | Classroom, New Teacher
If you haven’t already discovered that keeping your classroom organized can help things run more efficiently, let me convince you to become a little more organized – at least when it comes to your standards statements. In this blog post, we’ll...
by Creation Castle | Classroom, New Teacher
If you’re required to have a learning objectives display to post your daily or weekly learning targets, you know how time-consuming it can be to write those out on your whiteboard. Not only does it take a lot of time, but it can also take up a lot of space! I...
by Creation Castle | Classroom, New Teacher
Many schools or districts require that learning objectives be posted daily. This can be a time-consuming task if you are wasting your prep time handwriting these objectives on the board. Utilizing an “I can…” card system can save time by allowing you...
by Creation Castle | Reading, Language Arts, New Teacher
If you went to college to become an elementary school teacher, you undoubtedly took a course or seven on reading instruction to learn about things like the alphabetic principle, phonics vs phonemic awareness, and more. Literacy Foundations, Phonological and...
by Creation Castle | Math, New Teacher
Do you know how much instruction time you lose during the day? Do you know where that time is being eaten up? Likely you are losing about five minutes every time you transition – unless you are using that time wisely. When I noticed this problem in my classroom,...
