classroom management

Student questionnaire appropriate for my urban high school kids.

Student Interest Survey

Stop wrestling with the photocopy machine! Instead, have standards based bell ringers for the entire school year in Google Slides. These bell ringers are standards based, covering all of the reading and writing standards for middle school ELA.

Achieving Goals By Promoting GRIT In Your Classroom. What Does It Mean to Have GRIT? How Can Teachers Promote GRIT With Their Students. This blog post features tips, activities, and strategies, that teachers can immediately share with students. Includes ideas for reflective writing, a collaborative poster, and a hands on approach to promoting a growth mindset. #GRIT #classroomtips #growthmindset #middleschool

Hi all, It's Shana from Hello, Teacher Lady here. Today I'm going to share with you one of my favorite back to school activities -- it combines my trusty Google Forms/Sheets with everyone's favorite techie game, Kahoot! In the past, I've had students fill out short little "inventories" at the beginning of the year -- which have been helpful to a certain extent, but I found that I didn't look at them as closely or as often as I should have. Stacks of paper usually don't survive long with me...

Get to know your new students with this engaging, informative, and FUN all about me student survey. Perfect for the first day of school or the first week of school, this student survey will help you get a better understanding of who your new students are. The survey asks about interests, hobbies, home life, goals, and more. Students will enjoy filling out this survey, and it is a great way to welcome students into your classroom. Once all of my students complete this survey, I keep them...

4L's for Productive Partner Work (From the work of Dr. Kate Kinsella)

Partner Work/Encouraging students to work productively together

This interactive portfolio for middle and high school students is filled with a variety of different lessons to inform and encourage students to understand the importance of growth mindset vs fixed mindset.The portfolio is broken into six (6) specific categories including: -Introduction to the brain and mindset (fixed vs growth mindset) -Failure, effort, and success -The keys to motivation -Developing identity -Critical thinking & leadership -Assessment & reflection CAPSTONE project

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Use this FREE Parent Questionnaire to obtain valuable information to help your students succeed this year!

Change the quote to one from Dumbledore and make the poster frames in HP font

We ALL have beliefs about ourselves and the world around us. How we understand and react to that world depends on our mindset. Discovered by psychologist Dr. Carol Dweck, mindset refers to the way we look at our abilities and intelligence as qualities we can change and grow. Check out the

5 Strategies for Reaching Disengaged Students