Team teaching elementary

Co-Teaching can be one of the most rewarding, yet challenging experiences. The co-teaching partnership is kind of like a marriage and usually it's an arranged one! Often, two teachers are partnered up without knowing much about each other. Administrators dealing with staffing issues may not be able to look at teaching styles and personalities before pairing teachers up. Here are some tips on how to make your co-teaching relationship a successful one! 1. Get to know your co-teaching partner…

Classroom team-building games are a must at the start of a new school year! Here are 16 of my favorite icebreakers and classroom team-building activities!

Yesterday I posted about how my team makes departmentalizing work in 3rd grade. Today, I'm back with 10 tips that help everything run smoothly. Let's get to it! Tip 1: Label Everything! Printing student names on address labels ahead of time has been my saving grace these past few years. I print an entire sheet

Thinking about teaching in a departmentalized classroom this year? Here are some helpful tips to get your started!

If you're worried about departmentalizing or being departmentalized in elementary school or primary grades-- read this post for teacher tips and a freebie to help with classroom management!

Ideas for fun things to do with your class in the last few weeks of school.

Is your team, school, or admin looking at departmentalizing? Are you curious about what a departmentalized classroom might look like in upper elementary? Take a look at the 5 key areas (and pros and cons for each) to consider when making this change. Including: teacher and student relationships, subject mastery, consistency, time management, and collaboration.

Organize your papers as a departmentalized teacher and remove the stress with these 3 strategies. Designate a place for your students in each class to turn in their assignments so you don’t have to sort them later. Color code your classes and designate a storage place for papers that need to be graded and those that need to be sent home. These tips and ideas will work with elementary, middle, or high school from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.

Team-building activities in the middle school classroom are a great way to build relationships at the beginning of the school year!

A selection of fun team building activities for the classroom for teachers to use. If you have been on Think About Such Things you have probably seen my other team building posts. Even though I