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You Got Your First Teaching Job…Now What?

by BrainNinjasWP

Congratulations! You got your first teaching job and are now an elementary school teacher. All that hard work has paid off and you are gainfully employed in your vocation (or calling or job to pay the bills-your choice). Now the real work begins. But don’t panic. We’ve been there! Read what you need to know to get your new job started off on the right foot.

Congratulations for getting yor first teaching job. Now the hard work begins. But where do you start? Don't worry. We've got a list of things you can do to get your school year started off right (and none of them involve teaching yet). Come have a read and put your mind at ease.
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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Back to School, new service teacher, new teacher, new teachers, Planning, Student Teachers, Teacher Stories, Teacher Wellness, Teacher Workload

It’s Time to Get Your Emergency Sub Plans Ready

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you prepared for a substitute teacher in the event you have to leave your classroom unexpectedly? Get these tips and some templates to make your planning simpler, faster and FINISHED!

Writing emergency sub plans for a supply teacher is a big pain in the butt. Even more so, when some sort of family emergency comes up and you’re still legally responsible for two days of classes (or more depending on where you teach).

It’s strange that these certified teachers who come into our classroom don’t have to plan anything for two full days. At least, that is the rule in the province where we live. Teachers are responsible for leaving two full days of plans for their students regardless of the situation. This must be in the only job in the world where you do just as much work on the days you aren’t there as on the days you are.

I once wrote sub plans on my phone from a hospital bed. True story. And as crazy as that was, I learned a valuable lesson from it.

Emergency Sub Plans!

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Classroom Management, Classroom Organization, Classroom Set Up, Emergency Plans, Emergency Sub Plans, our tpt products, Planning, Professional Learning, Teachers Pay Teachers

How to Differentiate For Your Students in Less Time

by BrainNinjasWP

Learn how to differentiate for your students in less time with these strategies. These are practical ways to take some of the planning off your plate and still provide your students with the supports they need. Come read the whole post.

One of the biggest issues teachers talk about is how much time it takes to differentiate their instruction for the needs of the different learners in their complex classrooms. All teachers want to help, reach and teach all their students, but understanding how to do this can be a challenge especially for teachers who are new to teaching, new to a grade level or new to the types of challenges and barriers a student is facing.

Full Disclosure: Differentiated instruction is hard.

And there seems to be some sort of unwritten out there that everyone should be good at it the first time you try.

Gee, no pressure.

Well, what if we could give you some tried and true strategies that have worked for us? We all know differentiation is important, but what does it mean to truly differentiate for everyone?

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Filed Under: Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Differentiated Instruction, Differentiation, Inclusion, Planning, professional development, Professional Learning

Ways to Plan That Work for You

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you looking for ways to plan your lessons? Do you use paper or digital? Come learn all the different ways we've tried to create our lesson plans over the years to save you some time. There are even free planning pages for you to use.

You’ve seen those beautiful planners all over Pinterest and on everyone’s social media. They are masterpieces that we wish could emulate, but alas, us ninjas have a lot going on and so our plan books have been an evolution. We realized early on that our plans aren’t pretty and we needed a way to share a classroom and thus, share our plans with each other.

Finding the planning style for you takes time. Here are some of our best tips for figuring out your planning style.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: AirTable, Evernote, Google Keep, Google Suite, Plan Book, Planner Styles, Planners, Planning, productivity, Trello

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