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August 8, 2018

54 Ways to Amplify Student Voices in the Classroom

Happy back-to-school season, teacher friends! Somehow 2018 is positively flying by, and it’s already time to prepare to head back into the classroom (if you’re not already back in it)! Recently, Teachers Pay Teachers hosted their annual back-to-school site-wide sale, and I ran a giveaway during that time to gift three teachers with TpT gift cards. My prompt on the giveaway post asked teachers to share how they plan to amplify student voices in the classroom this year, and I received some really awesome responses that I wanted to share with you in this blog post. Keep reading to get ideas for how to make sure your students get time to talk — and to be heard — in your class this school year.

One of the most important teaching techniques teachers should aim to do is to amplify student voices. Pedagogy sometimes indicates teachers should be the authoritative voice in the classroom, but it should really be our students. This blog post shares 54 ways to amplify student voices in the classroom, so click through to get new teaching ideas.

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By: Leslie Auman Hirgelt · Filed Under: Honest Educator Series, Teaching · Tagged: classroom community, classroom environment, Honest Educator Series, student-centered, teachers, teaching, teaching tips

April 6, 2018

8 Reasons Why I Think I Failed as a Teacher

Honest Educator Series | Teacher Struggles | Teaching | Teaching is a hard profession for a variety of reasons, and most people don't deny that. Teachers and other educators - principals, SLPs, guidance counselors, and the like - have tough jobs, and sometimes we think we've failed. This post explores eight reasons why I think I failed as a teacher and explores some of the taboo topics of the field of education. Click through to see if it resonates with your teaching experience.

Hi, I’m Leslie. I used to be a middle school teacher. I quit after only three years of full-time teaching, and I haven’t returned. Even though I’m coming up on my three-year anniversary of when I left my teaching career, this is something about which I still feel embarrassment and, for some reason, shame. Teaching is a hard profession, and the term “hard” is multifaceted here. One of the reasons it’s hard is that, here in the U.S., the general social expectation is that teachers will give up everything to teach kids for laughably low salaries and be happy about it. So…when someone like me comes along and realizes that it’s just all too much and decides to leave…there’s a kind of judgment. This post is all about why I think I failed as a teacher and why it’s still hard for me to talk about.

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By: Leslie Auman Hirgelt · Filed Under: Honest Educator Series · Tagged: education, educators, Honest Educator Series, overwhelm, stress, teachers, teaching

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