Today鈥檚 post is the latest installment in a multiyear series in which 糖心动漫vlog offer advice鈥攊n six words or less鈥攁bout teaching to other 糖心动漫vlog. Some have more than one set of those pearls of wisdom:
For 16 years, Diana Laufenberg taught 7-12 grades social studies in Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. She currently serves as the executive director and lead teacher for Inquiry Schools:
Do not take yourself too seriously.
Create awesomeness and share it prolifically.
Melanie Battles, Ph.D., is a founding consultant of Scholars for the Soul: An Educational Solutions Firm, and has over a decade of experience working in education as a K-12 literacy educator, college adjunct faculty member, instructional coach, and educational consultant:
Without courage, all else will fail.
Authentic connections require the authentic you.
Emily Machado, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of early-childhood education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Know children are powerful and capable.
Pronounce each child鈥檚 preferred name correctly.
Emilie McKiernan-Mullins is in her 17th year teaching in Louisville, Ky., and is a mother to two kids:
Perfect is nice; good is enough.
Your students deserve 'I鈥檓 sorry' sometimes.
Stephanie Smith Budhai, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the School of Education at the University of Delaware:
Complacency has no place in education.
Ed tech must be utilized with intentionally.
Sheniqua Johnson has been an educator for 16 years and is currently the elementary language-acquisition coordinator in a North Texas school district:
Reach ALL students by differentiating instruction.
Facilitate learning instead of delivering instruction.
Kit Golan () is the secondary mathematics consultant for the Center for Mathematics Achievement at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass.:
Put your oxygen mask on first.
Identify and build on student assets.
Keisha Rembert is the author of The Antiracist English Language Arts Classroom, a doctoral student, and an assistant professor/DEI coordinator for teacher preparation at National Louis University:
Field trips aren鈥檛 fluff. Schedule them.
Cultivate Black boys' intellect and spirit.
Andrea Terrero Gabbadon is an author, scholar, and teacher educator:
Interrogate personal assumptions about student motivation.
Piquing curiosity renders the impossible, possible.
Chandra Shaw has more than 25 years of experience in education, as a teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and now a literacy consultant at one of her state鈥檚 regional service centers:
They鈥檙e kids. Never take 'it' personally.
Giving students grace doesn鈥檛 equal weakness.
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