Daily Teaching Tools

If you are in a school district that will return to the classroom during this pandemic, the resources linked to this animation may interest you. Most importantly, have a safe and healthy school year! Greetings to you, my fellow teacher. My name is Chad Manis, a language arts and journalism teacher with 33 years of classroom experience. Let me begin... by saying thank you. Thank you for becoming a teacher, and thank you for taking the time to go online in search of resources that you can use in your classroom. That tells me that you are a dedicated teacher who cares about your kidsand their and our tomorrows. teaching tools Not everyone can be a teacher. It takes a special sort of person with a lot of patience, creativity, adaptability, fortitude, resourcefulness, and an endless ability to multitask. I dont have to tell you that the challenges are enormous. If youre like the majority of us these days, youre probably feeling more than a little overwhelmed. Too often, the focus seems to be on preparing students for standardized testing, posting online grades and lesson plans, and displaying the required items on bulletin boards. Its really no wonder that we feel overwhelmed. The primary purpose of Daily Teaching Tools is to provide you with free resources, materials, and strategies to enhance your effectiveness with kids. There are some secondary purposes as well. Many of the tools that you will find here are mine, but just as many I "stole" from the resourceful teachers I've had the pleasure of working with throughout the years. Please feel free to steal, uh, I mean, borrow them from me too. What you WON'T find here is exactly the sort of stuff that I don't like when I visit websites that focus on teachers and teaching resources. That sort of stuff includes long lists of unexplored websites that were copied and pasted, recommendations for products or services that the authors never tried themselves, stuffy academic language, and above all else, insincerity. You won't find any of that here. These economic times ...Read More