Love to Teach, Love to Learn

Are you tired of being stuck in your classroom day after day? Do your students long to be outside. I imagine your answer is ‘YES!’ When our schools are surrounded by a wealth of outdoor space, why do we as teachers insist on always learning in the classroom? There are hug

Are you fed up with teaching math skills from a textbook or a worksheet? Do your students become easily bored with math, or even fearful? When looking to up-level your math instruction, you’ll find that there are many programs to choose from, that tend to be costly, when all you real

Am I teaching enough content? How do I fit in every celebration? What SHOULD I be teaching? Whether you’re a new teacher, a teacher returning from a leave of absence or a teacher in a new grade level, I’m sure these will be some of the many wonderings that you’ll have.

In the wake of the COVID pandemic, there is more freedom of choice! Not only can you choose what and where to learn, you can decide how, giving more flexibility to meet personal needs and preferences.  

Are you feeling out of control? Perhaps tired, exhausted and hoarse at the end of every day? When shouting becomes your normal, your classroom environment must be improved!

Perhaps you’re a new teacher? Perhaps a well experienced teacher that’s new to a lower elementary grade? Or perhaps you feel your reading program needs a fresh approach? Either way, you’ll know that there are many reading programs and resources out there, that come with a

Staying up all night to plan, prepare and organize? Laminating EVERY resource so that your hard work stands heavy handling? Carefully planning how to decorate your own classroom? If you’re answering ‘yes’, you must be a teacher and perhaps a teacher that has just secured

Excitement, fearful, happy, nervousness, are some of the emotions that students and teachers alike will be feeling on the first day of school! Whether starting a new school for the first time or well-experienced in going back to school, everyone has a mixture of feelings surrounding that i

HELP! Something that we encourage our students to seek, to overcome challenges, yet we find it hard to reach out for, for ourselves! Why as teachers, are we reluctant to ask for help?

Moving to a new province or country is both exciting and worrying. Learning to adapt to new systems, policies and procedures is necessary to become immersed in a new society. Finding out that you can’t automatically continue your teaching career when certified in a different country&

Today more than ever, student needs are vast and so teaching to the middle must remain a thing of the past! Far too often, I see educators teaching the same content and strategies to the entire class, with an expectation that students who are unable to grasp outcomes need 1:1 support an

Tick-tock, if only I could stop the clock! We all know that there are never enough hours in the day! I’m yet to meet a teacher who goes home with no school work left to do! But that’s ok right? I mean we get almost 2 months off in the summer! Wrong! That’s how we get burn