To be an Excellent Teacher...

To be an excellent teacher, you must:

--Be willing to learn from your colleagues, your students, and YOURSELF.
--Be flexible. Lesson plans frequently need to be modified, meetings will need to be changed, and collaboration must happen.
-- Stay current with instructional strategies and technology integration methods. After all, if you don't, you are doing a disservice to the students.
--Be a team player. Noone knows it all.
--Communicate effectively with parents, students, and colleagues.
--Have passion for teaching, your subject area, and children.
--And, without a doubt...have a LIFE. Do things for yourself...enjoy time with loved ones.

I know that there are many more thoughts to add to this. I could probably go on forever!

Any thoughts? Please leave a comment ;)

That time...

It's getting to be that time...back-to-school sales, class lists formed, classrooms waiting to be organized... In other words...it's August. For teachers, August is a time to squeeze out that last bit of summer fun while spending time preparing for the upcoming year. By now, most teachers feel refreshed, but are still anxious about giving up their summer freedom. Before we know it, we will be buried in every day school duties. With that being said... I think I'm almost ready to get back into the daily grind.

Through my web-surfing, I came across this wonderful website by eThemes. It has a multitude of resources from grade 1-12. I tagged many of them on my delicious account for later viewing.

Happy August...I definitely will squeeze out the last bit of summer. ;)