How To Have The Best School Year of Your Life (Even If The Plan Keeps Changing and You Are Super Stressed Out)

How to Use YouTube in Your Classroom (For Only 30 Seconds) and Get Kids Participating for Over 30 Minutes: What is the vibe in your classroom right now? Do you find it is different on various days of the week! If you want to bring TGIF energy and enthusiasm to your classroom everyday, Ive got an idea for you. Our students LOVE YouTube and short form by This Teacher Life

20 min listen

1 Classroom Idea That Got ALL Kids Participating- And All You Need is a Potato!?: Have you ever tried something in your classroom and thought, That was really silly, but it TOTALLY worked! I find myself saying that the most when I am using toys to teach. Because the reality is that toys can actually be really powerful tools in e by This Teacher Life

27 min listen

How Teachers Can Make Hump Day (And Every Day) More Engaging in the Classroom: As an educator, how do you feel by the middle of the week? Are you emotional drained, out of great ideas, and feeling teacher tired? Sometimes by hump day, we are needing some creativity to add to your curriculum. In this weeks episode of the Th by This Teacher Life

22 min listen

How Teachers Can Use Music to Motivate Students (You Will Be Blown Away How You Can Leverage it for Learning): Music is a highly underutilized tool in education! We use books all the time to help kids learn and grow, but songs are just books without pages. So how can you use music to motivate students and get them all engaged in heartfelt, meaningful conver by This Teacher Life

25 min listen

1 Classroom Idea that Will Get 100% of Students Motivated to Engage (Perfect for Monday… or ANY Day of the Week): Do your students every walk into class with tired eyes and total disengagement? Do you ever ask your students questions and the only thing you hear are crickets? Do you ever start a lesson and it totally flops, but you keep rolling with it because by This Teacher Life

27 min listen

3 Simple Teacher Ideas to End the Year on a Good Note with Special Jack Berckemeyer: Spring fever is a real thing! But spring celebration is a real thing too. As a teacher do you want to have an AWESOME April or an AWFUL April? I know it seems like a silly, obvious question, but sometimes if we want something to be awesome, we h by This Teacher Life

19 min listen

The 5 Pillars of Teaching: Celebrate Education, Build Relationships, Utilize Your Skills, Share Your Successes, Hold On Tight: What if I told you there are 5 super simple things that can change EVERYTHING about education. These 5 things can help you: LOVE your job CONNECT with kids CREATE amazing lessons DECREASE stesss INCREASE success in the profession In by This Teacher Life

20 min listen

Teacher Truth: You are NOT Alone- How Sharing Your Story, Struggles, & Successes Can Help You Crush It in the Classroom: Are this point in the school you are you surviving, thriving or in neutral? The reality is that all honest answers are great answers! This is the point in the year where the wheels start to come off for a lot of us. This point in the year is whe by This Teacher Life

29 min listen

Utilize THIS In Your Classroom to Guarantee LOTS of Learning for ALL Students (This is Fun for Teachers Too): You are a unique teacher that is bringing awesome ideas to your classroom that help you crush it for kids. The big question is, do you believe that? Do you truly believe that your unique interests, skills, and strengths are making a positive impact by This Teacher Life

28 min listen

How to Build Relationships with Students Using This Classroom Game (This Will Help with March Madness): Building relationships with students can be difficult these days. Our students have changed, their communication has changed, their engagement has changed, and it feels like many of our students have walls. But what if I told you we could bust down by This Teacher Life

24 min listen

How to Celebrate Education in Super Simple Ways (I Promise You Will be Clapping About This Idea): Classrooms need more clapping than critiquing. Do you agree? Sometimes if we want to crush it for kids we need to simply celebrate education and celebrate our students more often. But, how can we do that when we barely have enough minutes to get by This Teacher Life

19 min listen

How to Make Sure the Next PD Day in Your School is Awesome & Full of Meaningful Ideas (And Not a Huge Waste of Time): Have you ever sat through school PD and thought, This is not what I need right now! Have you ever been at a teacher workshop and said, These ideas are even practical or realistic. Have you ever been to a back-to-school event and thought, This was a by This Teacher Life

31 min listen

Teacher Gut: Is it Guiding Us in a Good Direction? A Special Conversation with Jack Berckemeyer: Have you ever tried to make a decision in your classroom or with your students and started to question everything? Should I say this? Should I try that? Should I go this route? Should I implement this idea? Sometimes, as educators, we can start to by This Teacher Life

23 min listen

4 Super Simple Solutions to DECREASE Teacher Stress When Making Phone Calls Home: Is calling home one of your least favorite things because it creates stress, anxiety, and frustration? If you said YES, you are not alone and this episode is going to help so much. Is calling home one of your most favorite things because it creates by This Teacher Life

29 min listen

How to Create HUGE Academic Growth in Your Classroom: STOP Doing This & START Doing That: Teachers is it time to completely ditch the directions? Giving students support and help is essential to growth, but have we crossed the education line in how we do that? There is a big difference between guiding kids into learning and giving kids by This Teacher Life

25 min listen

A Really Dumb Classroom Management Strategy That TOTALLY Works! (All You Need is a Pen): Sometimes the silliest ideas end up being the most strategic ideas! So let me ask you, how is classroom management going in your teacher life right now? Are students getting disorganized? Are students struggling to keep their hands to themselves by This Teacher Life

24 min listen

The BEST Creative Classroom Strategy to Get Kids Having Positive Peer Interactions (All You Need are Marbles): Have you ever heard or observed a student interaction and asked, Why did you say that? or Why did you do that? Then the student looks at you like you are crazy and they respond, They are my friend. or I was just joking. Peer interactions arent alwa by This Teacher Life

25 min listen

A REALLY Dumb Idea for Your Classroom that Totally Works (All You Need is 1 Notecard): Teachers love innovative, fun, engaging ideas. But sometimes really dumb ideas work really well too! Simple, strategic classroom changes can make a big impact and that is exactly what we are diving into in this episode. What if I told you kids w by This Teacher Life

21 min listen

How to Get ALL Students Participating & Asking Awesome Questions (All You Need is a Dice): Do you want to get all of your students participating in class? The answer is probably YES! The question is, how do we actually do that? We have all been teaching and then hit pause to say, does anybody have any questions and ZERO hands go up. by This Teacher Life

26 min listen

2 HIGHLY Controversial Pieces of Advice about Goals & Dreams (If You Do These You WILL Find Success): There is SO much hype around goal settings, resolutions, and dreaming big at the start of the new year. Have you ever felt pressure to make a resolution and found yourself giving up only a few days into Jan? Are you in the exact same place, mentall by This Teacher Life

22 min listen

Old School Teaching vs. New School Teaching- Which is Better & More Effect for Kids? with Jack Berckemeyer: Paper assignments vs. computer assignments. Which is better for kids? Stern consequences or flexible behavior options. Which is better for kids? To allow AI vs. not allow AI. Which is better for kids. Educators can debate and disagree on SO many by This Teacher Life

36 min listen

How Oprah and Reese Witherspoon are Making a HUGE Impact in Education (The Answer will Surprise You): Oprah and Reese Witherspoon are known for their incredible book clubs. Each year millions of people read titles from their award-winning lists. Teacher Books rarely make the cut. But what if I told you that there is actually SO much to be learned from by This Teacher Life

33 min listen

How to Overcome Teacher Mistakes and What We Can Learn From Them (Spoiler Alert: This is Actually Really Funny Too): Have you ever tried to say one thing in your classroom and it came out completely different? That comment may have cause your whole class to laugh. caused you to be embarrassed, or maybe both. Teacher mistakes are a real thing and when they happen, by This Teacher Life

25 min listen

Don’t Make THIS Teacher Mistake in December (Plus a Positive, Pro-Active Way to Mend the Mistake): Thanksgiving break is over and winter break is coming soon! During this time of the school year we are SO excited because we have made it through nearly half of the academic calendar. As teachers, we are probably day dreaming about things like slee by This Teacher Life

20 min listen

The #1 BEST Way to Create Dynamic Discussions in Your Classroom (This Battle Will Also Create Rooted Relationships): How awesome would it be if you could get 100% of students participating? The answer is really awesome! However, you might be thinking, is that even possible? The answer is YES its 100% possible with THIS idea. The full ideas is described in t by This Teacher Life

27 min listen

1 Classroom Game that is Going to Revolutionize Your Relationships with Students (No Cost, No Prep, and TONS of Conversation): Classroom games are an awesome way to get students engaged, connecting, and participating. Classroom games are also one of my favorite ways to dive deep with kids and build really strong relationships. In this weeks episode of the This Teacher Life by This Teacher Life

29 min listen

7 Free Teacher Resources That Make Classrooms More Fun & Less Stressful (Gifts That Keep on Giving): Teachers deserve free gifts and free resources that are going to make our classrooms even better. In this fun and festive episode of the This Teacher Life podcast I share 7 FREE things that I use in my school and with my students that Im confident you by This Teacher Life

26 min listen

Teacher Balance: A Look at a VERY Common School Problem and Solutions on HOW to FIX It: How is balance going in your teacher life? More specifically, how is the balance between smiles and systems in your school? We all know that schools are under a lot of stress right now and when stress comes into play we forget about balance. Not by This Teacher Life

29 min listen

How to Get Students to Turn In High-Quality Work and the Simple System to Ensure No Kids Fail: Do you struggle to get kids to turn in work? Do you wish students put forth more effort on the work they turn in? Do you feel like students are failing and they dont care? If you answered YES to any (or all of those) questions then this weeks ep by This Teacher Life

32 min listen

Education Question: Have Students Changed or Have Teachers Changed? A Special Conversation with Jack Berckemeyer: Things arent like they used to be when I started teaching. Have you said or heard that statement lately. The reality is, yes, things in education have changed. But, the big question is, have students changed or is it the teachers? What if its neith by This Teacher Life

25 min listen

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How To Have The Best School Year of Your Life (Even If The Plan Keeps Changing and You Are Super Stressed Out)

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