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By Derrick Meador, About.com Guide

Personality Types of Students in a Typical Classroom Created: Sunday, January 27, 2013 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Types of Students - The most challenging aspect of being a teacher is that there is no set mold on the types of students in a single class. A class of twenty students will likely have twenty differ...
Problems for Teachers Created: Sunday, September 23, 2012 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Teaching is a difficult profession. There are many problems for teachers that make the profession more complicated than it has to be. This doesn’t mean that everyone should avoid being a teac...
Parent and Teacher Communication Created: Sunday, August 26, 2012 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Parent and Teacher Communication - One of the most important aspects of teaching is building positive relationships with parents. Effective parent and teacher communication is essential for a teach...
Teacher Interview Questions Created: Thursday, December 30, 2010 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Teacher Interview Questions - The interview process can be very stressful for a teacher. Administrators and school districts vary with how the interview process goes, so being prepared is a key to ...
School Retention Created: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
School Retention - School retention is a process in which a teacher feels like it would benefit a student for one reason or another to keep them in the same grade for two consecutive years. Retaini...
School Personnel Created: Friday, June 17, 2011 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
School personnel - The operations of a school requires a variety of school personnel to be effective. The personnel in a school is often broken down into three distinct categories including school ...
Keys to Providing Structure in the Classroom Created: Saturday, February 09, 2013 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Structure in the Classroom - A key component of being an effective teacher begins with providing structure in the classroom. Providing structure maximizes student learning opportunities, minimizes ...
Help for Students Created: Sunday, December 23, 2012 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Help for Students - Teaching should be driven by a passion to provide help for students no matter what that calls for. Teachers have a natural impact on a young person’s life. It is our duty ...
How Should Teachers Conduct a Principal Evaluation? Created: Sunday, January 27, 2013 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Principal Evaluation - Many states require teachers to be apart of a principal evaluation system. This can be a challenging task for teachers who have limited interactions with their building princ...
Educational Leadership Philosophy Created: Sunday, January 09, 2011 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
School vision. A principal should be student-centered and their school vision should revolve around the betterment of the students. You want every activity that occurs in your building to revolve a...
Motivate Students Created: Sunday, February 24, 2013 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Motivate Students - Sometimes it is necessary for teachers and/or principals to find ways to motivate students. Motivation comes in many forms. One of the biggest motivational tools used by teacher...
Accelerated Reader Created: Sunday, July 15, 2012 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Accelerated Reader - Accelerated Reader is one of the world’s most popular reading programs. The software program, commonly referred to as AR, is designed to motivate students to read and to ...
Reading Eggs Created: Monday, March 19, 2012 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Reading Eggs - Reading Eggs is an interactive online program intended for children ages 4-8 and designed to teach children how to read or to build on existing reading skills. The premise behind Rea...
Motivating Students Created: Sunday, October 02, 2011 Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013
Motivating Students - A principal wears many hats having to be good in many different capacities as they deal with students, teachers, and parents. One of those hats includes motivating students. A...
Writing and the Common Core Created: Saturday, December 08, 2012 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
Writing and the Common Core - The Common Core State Standards themselves are not much different than many states’ current adopted standards. There are some definite subtle changes, but overal...
What is the Common Core? Created: Friday, May 18, 2012 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
What is the Common Core? It is a question that will most certainly be asked over and over again in the next few years. To this point the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have not been discussed m...
Writing Policy and Procedures for Schools Created: Monday, December 20, 2010 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
Writing Policy -- Writing policy and procedures for schools is a part of an administrator's job. School policies and procedures are essentially the governing documents by which your school district...
School Search Policy Created: Saturday, September 17, 2011 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
School Search - Every school should have a school search and seizure policy that is clear to students. Students should have a good understanding of the circumstances which they can be legally searc...
Search and Seizure in Schools Created: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
Fourth Amendment -- The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Student Rights Handbook Created: Saturday, March 30, 2013 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
Student Rights - Every student in the district has rights and freedoms given to them by the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution. The school district recognizes these student rights. However ...
United Federation of Teachers Created: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
United Federation of Teachers - The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the largest labor union representing teachers in New York City. The UFT currently has over 200,000 members. Those members ...
Why Should You Join a Teachers Union? Created: Sunday, October 16, 2011 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
Teachers Union - One decision that a new teacher is faced with is whether or not they should join a teachers union. In some cases it is really not a choice at all. In eighteen states it is essentia...
Respect in Schools Created: Saturday, September 17, 2011 Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013
Respect in Schools - There must be an atmosphere that promotes mutual respect in schools. Teachers need to respect students and students need to respect teachers. This mutual respect will foster le...
Communication Policy Created: Sunday, November 13, 2011 Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013
Communication Policy - Communication is a key component to having a fantastic year and an excellent staff. It is important that administrators, teachers, parents, staff, and students have a clear ...
Be a Principal Created: Sunday, September 11, 2011 Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013
Be a principal - So you want to be a principal? I absolutely love being a principal and I feel like for the most part that I do my job pretty well. With that said there are times when I sit down at...
Become a Principal Created: Sunday, November 27, 2011 Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013
Become a principal - Not everyone is meant to become a principal. A school principal’s day can be long and stressful. You have to be organized, solve problems, manage people well, and be able...
An Overview of Renaissance Learning Programs Created: Saturday, June 15, 2013 Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013
Renaissance Learning - Renaissance Learning offers technology based educational programs for PK-12th grade students. These programs are designed to assess, monitor, supplement, and enhance traditio...
A Review of Accelerated Math Created: Friday, May 31, 2013 Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013
Accelerated Math - Accelerated Math is a popular math practice program for grades K-12. The program is designed to provide teachers with a supplemental tool that allows them to create personalized ...
A Review of STAR Early Literacy Created: Saturday, April 27, 2013 Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013
STAR Early Literacy - STAR Early Literacy is an online adaptive assessment program developed by Renaissance Learning for students typically in grades PK-3. The program uses a series of questions to...
STAR Math Created: Saturday, September 29, 2012 Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013
STAR Math - STAR Math is an online assessment program developed by Renaissance Learning for students typically in grades 1-12. The program assesses fifty-three sets of math skills in four domains t...
STAR Reading Created: Saturday, August 25, 2012 Updated: Saturday, June 15, 2013
STAR Reading - STAR Reading is an online assessment program developed by Renaissance Learning for students typically in grades K-12. The program uses a combination of the cloze method and tradition...
School Reform Created: Monday, December 26, 2011 Updated: Friday, June 14, 2013
School Reform - You cannot open a newspaper, watch the news, or get on the Internet without finding something negative about public education. Public education is under attack like it has never bee...