As the (hopefully) relaxing summer rolls on, filled with inspiring live music and idyllic backyard picnics, we hope you’re also immersing yourself in some teaching strategies to use next year. If you’re not learning new teaching strategies to use next year, we’re here to help! Frequent TeachHUB.com (and TeachHUB Magazine) contributing writer Jacqui Murray, […]
Critical thinking skills are something that all teachers are trying to induce in their students. One of the best ways to bring about the use of critical thinking skills is by holding a classroom debate. Classroom activities like debates also get kids interacting and communicating. But how do you get started with […]
Last April, Holy Week and Easter were marred by the fire in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris and by terrorist attacks upon churches in Sri Lanka. This month, Holy Week and Easter seem overshadowed by the COVIN-19 pandemic. Good stewardship of our own health, and love for our […]
Which came first; the job board or the e-recruitment system? The Monster Board was first created in 1994 with most of the early ATS vendors not appearing until 1998/9. Since those exciting late 20th century days the market has ducked and weaved all over the place. I still remember Recruitsoft, Recruitmax, […]
For a while now, we’ve focused considerable effort on TeachHUB.com toward helping current and potential teachers to get a teaching job. It’s never easy, and in these days of budget cutbacks and leaner staffing trends, it can seem near impossible to get a teaching job. And if you do land that coveted […]
Why do teachers quit? It’s a perennial perplexing question that has plagues administrators since the onset of education, and it’s particularly thorny in that teachers have a 4 percent higher turnover rate than any other profession. Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox, herself a seasoned educator based on the East […]
It’s never been easy to get a classroom full of youngsters to listen to you, and maintaining control of a class is always tricky. One of the worst things that can happen to an educator is having a principal, parent, or administrator saunter in to a roomful of chaotic, misbehaving […]
Somehow, the end of the school day almost always brings about classroom chaos. Even the best educators fail to use classroom management to ensure that the end of the day is smotth, which can bring about strewn backpacks, yelling kids, running, and other elements of loss of control. But with a little classroom […]
Creating a caring, nurturing classroom begins at the top: With you, the teacher. It’s imperative to use classroom management to foster a warm atmosphere. One way to do this is through teambuilding amongst your students. Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox, herself a seasoned educator on the East Coast, takes […]
If you’re thinking of changing your ATS from yesteryear for something more social what should you be looking out for? So many of the older systems “claim” to be social but posting a job on Twitter is hardly leading edge and unlikely to close off your social recruiting strategy in […]
One of TeachHUB.com’s most-popular topics through the years has been getting a teaching job – whether it’s interviewing, interview questions for teachers, or simply preparing a cover letter. Most of us can still remember the horror that accompanies job interviews and their accompanying interview questions for teachers, and how we answered them. But those questions […]
Too frequently, bullied students are stuck battling their bullies and the ancillary issues related to it on their own. So today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox, using a cue for the National Education Association, takes a look at some ways that teachers can be passionate advocates for their […]
Complete Class Organizer helps your students keep their hectic student life on track in handy and useful ways. For more great educational reviews targeted for both teachers and students, download your free issues of TeachHUB Magazine. Get our review of the Complete Class Organizer>> Teaching Strategies About Being PositiveResearch has shown that […]
To set off a little holiday fireworks of our own, today in TeachHUB.com we introduced some 4th of July jokes, fun facts, and classroom games for all ages! Here’s a sample: What would you get if you crossed a patriot with a small curly-haired dog? Yankee Poodle Make Room for the […]
In this week’s multimedia podcast, we list out a few ideas that can go a long way toward removing stress from your teaching workday. Learn more in this week’s podcast, from the always-free TeachHUB Magazine. View the Podcast>> Classroom Activities to Help Students Multiply Any elementary educator knows that teaching multiplication is […]
Parents, when was the last time you showed some appreciation for your kids’ teachers? Not recently, we bet. Well, a little bit of appreciation goes a long way. Today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janell Cox lays out some simple ways parents can show their appreciation for teachers. Her ideas […]
Touchable Earth makes exploring the Earth interactive and fun. For more great educational reviews targeted for both teachers and students, download your free issues of TeachHUB Magazine. Get our review>> Classroom Games that Incorporate Spelling Spelling tests are almost universally despised by students, and there are doubts about the educational longevity of […]
We’ve all had that one student who just can’t sit still. For that student, it’s a daily struggle to sit still during a math lesson, a spelling test, or even a reading time. And for the teacher, it can be frustrating to constantly remind that student to sit still, pay […]
This week, we look at the colorful history of Pi Day, a yearly celebration of mathematics if there ever was one. Learn more in this week’s podcast, from the always-free TeachHUB Magazine. Get our look at Pi Day>> Teaching Strategies for Facilitating Collaboration, Change The constant state of change is indeed one […]
Social media offers up a variety of enlightening options for educators, but none offers up as much as that DIY social media show-and-tell forum named Pinterest. For the uninitiated, Pinterest is a FREE, all-encompassing website containing thousands of educational ideas, including articles, teaching strategies, website links, blog links, Teacher Pay Teacher ideas, […]
We’ve all been there: The nervewracking teaching job interview, filled with tough interview questions for teachers that are designed to weed out potential non-fits for the job at hand. But today on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Jordan Catapano, himself a seasoned English teacher in the Chicago suburbs, shines a light on some […]
Do you know how to motivate students to learn? Do you know what drives them? Or what makes them resist learning? Do you know what makes students react to academics the way they do? Today’s think piece, the centerpiece article on TeachHUB.com, takes a look at the ways students approach learning, and […]
The kind of cars anyone my age bought when they were young didn’t come with air conditioning, electric windows or even a radio as standard. USB points didn’t even exist! They started off looking (kind of) nice but by the time we’d bolted on our non-factory fitted extras they looked […]
