What r/teaching is talking about this week

Teachers: “Okay, so can we modify these district-created summative assessments to better reflect what we actually taught and what our students can realistically demonstrate?” District: “Absolutely...

I teach 12–13-year-olds, and sometimes they collectively decide that classroom management is just a suggestion. 💀 I'm looking for the weirdest, most ridiculous, borderline insane tricks you've...

Talking with parents, we're supposed to start with a positive thing, then get into the problematic issue, then finish with a positive. What do you do when there's not a single positive to say...

School is requesting such an abundance of side work that I feel like I am constantly drowing 🫠We have a tracker to fill out for so many different things, we teach a specialty SLC program that we...

One thing I haven’t seen discussed is that because Texas is such a large purchaser of curriculum that book companies tailor what they sell to Texas standards, which then means the rest of the...

There’s only so much collaboration you can do in ELA. And call me old school, but there’s nothing wrong with kids sitting there quietly and doing their work. Also I find this mindset funny,...

I swear every author I read speaks wonders of this technique. But whenever I read teachers testimonies, it ends up as a recipee for noise and off task behaviour. Also in my country there are 45...

To;dr- Sometimes I genuinely wonder how these people end up in administration. I’ve worked in education for almost a decade across three different school districts. The first district I worked in...

In my district, all of our Title I middle schools are under performing but somehow they’re all IB schools too. I’m gonna be honest. I hate the IB framework. To me, it’s just another thing piled...

I am a male high school teacher. I have many years of classroom experience, but the past 5-6 years have been progressively more difficult. My main teaching subjects are math (grade 9 to 12). I...