Middle school teachers

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Teaching middle school is like no other teaching assignment - like no other task on Earth for that matter. As a teacher, you need to be just the right mix of cool and strict - but most important, calm. You need to have a good relationship with your students overall based on mutual respect. But that's much easier said than done. Here's the thing about middle schoolers in particular: They want to look good in front of their peers. What their peers think of them is of utmost importance to them…

One of the most time-consuming things teachers deal with is student absences! I no longer worry about this because my students completely take care of it!

Teaching is a rewarding job, but some things can make just about anyone lose it. Here are a handful of problems only teachers could understand.

Disrespectful students can throw even the most seasoned teachers for a loop. This one-minute viral video offers brilliant strategies to help.

If you’ve spent any time around teenagers, you know… they’re so weird! Whether or not you’re wanting to teach middle school or you’ve already signed your contract, you are ready to go because this is what you went to school for. WRONG! You’re about to become the sole adult in a room of preteens who do not play by anyone’s rules other than their own. True, your college classes prepared you to be a teacher. I quickly found out there were valuable things they left out about being a middle…

Teacher boundaries are important or you'll end up exhausted, overwhelmed, stressed, and resentful. Here's how I started with one and build on.

Behavior management in schools has become too hard for teachers to manage. Find out the reasons teachers can no longer do this alone.

After 19 years in the classroom, I‘ve picked up a few tricks that have saved me from hours reinventing the wheel year after year. The best thing I ever did for myself was complete some upfront work that led to years of little to no prep and planning! Here are my top three work smarter, not harder tips for easy lesson planning: 1. Save and store reusable worksheets and task cards. Classrooms don't have a lot of storage space, but keeping photocopies of the materials your students will use…

Motivating those fun middle schoolers can be tricky, right? Here are three incentives classroom tested incentives that you can implement right away to help manage your middle school classroom and make it fun! Seriously.