Author Archives: Ryan Winn
3 Prompts To Keep Your Students On Task After A Quiz
Quiz days are one of my favorite things about teaching. My students get a chance to show what they know, I get a fresh batch of data to track, and most importantly my students get to respond to one of ...
Making The Most Of Your Time After Testing
My first year in the classroom I was totally spent by the time my students took the TCAP in late April, sitting down at my laptop to begin planning for the last month of school I kept glancing over at ...
Four Books To Refuel Your Fire
Teaching is hard. (A truer sentence has never been uttered.) As a teacher I am expected to surf rising tides of paperwork, manage student behavior with a single glance, shoot knowledge out of my fingertips, reflect on data, and support ...
Why Do You Get Out of Bed In the Morning?
My first year in the classroom I struggled to explain to my students why what we were doing in my math class mattered, why I was here working with them, and who I was as a person. I failed to ...
The Secret To Motivating Your Students
Within 15 minutes of being in my institute classroom in Atlanta I was struck by the age-old question facing teachers everywhere: “What can I do to motivate my students.” Common sense and a lot of teaching practice tells us the ...
Fail Without Becoming A Failure
Failure is something every teacher confronts on a daily basis. I fall short and need to bounce back multiple times, often in a single class period. A major challenge I faced in my first year was how to inspire my ...
