Helping Students Adjust to the New School Year The first day of school can be scary. Children wonder about how everything will goâ âWill my friends still like me?â âWill I make new friends?â âDo I look okay?â This is completely normal and happens to most students at one time or another....
School Successâ10 Ways Parents Can Help Teachers are amazingâmath teachers, science teachers, language teachers, music teachers, PE teachersâtheyâre committed every day to helping students reach their goals. And teachers benefit greatly from help from their studentsâ parents. After all, parents...
10 Ways To Help Kids Handle Back-to-School Anxiety: Teacher Tips for Parents During their school years, all students will go through many new scenarios and situations: starting school for the first time, changing schools, getting new teachers, learning new rules, adjusting to new schedules as they hit middle...
6 Helpful Apps for Classroom Note Taking and Homework. These days many middle school and high school students have trouble keeping up with everything they are supposed to do each day: school, homework, jobs, volunteering and extracurricular activities overwhelm their calendars. As teachers, we see this...
Teachers: Make Parents Your Partner Building strong relationships with your studentsâ parents takes time, but itâs an investment sure to pay off. When parents and teachers work together as partners, kids benefit greatly. A solid parent-teacher partnership hinges on mutual respect and open communication....
Homework Tips for Parents When the last bell rings for the day, you most likely see students burst out of school so happy to be free! Theyâre ready to meet up with friends, participate in activities, scarf down a snack or two, and enjoy their night. Once they arrive home, however, they realize that...
Student Goal Setting: 3 Steps to Success January is a great time to reassess student goals and remind kids that they each have unique and individual paths to success. In school, itâs common for teachers to witness students seeming disappointed in themselves and upset about their grades. But if you sit down...
At-Home Learning Tips for Parents While teachers play an important role in a childâs educational experience for a year or maybe a few, parents are in it for the long haul. Most parents were their kidsâ primary teachers long before their children started school, reciting with them their ABCs and 123s...
Why Attend a Parent-Teacher Conference? Parent-teacher conferences are an essential tool that help teachers talk in more depth about the information parents see on report cards and test scores. They give teachers an opportunity to discuss studentsâ specific strengths, weaknesses, and needs with parents...