Teaching Resources for Student Success

Remove Classroom Anxiety and Put Joy into Your Job

Betsy Weigle, M.Ed, NBCT

Hi, I'm Betsy Weigle and I love teaching.

I want you to love it, too.

There's so much joy to be had in working with children. You can feel that joy every day instead of worrying about student behavior you can't get a handle on, or being anxious about performance evaluations...or those dreaded calls with parents.

More than that, I want to help you overcome your worries about teaching.

• You can help elementary school students test at their highest potential
• You can welcome principal classroom observations and evaluations
• You can create lesson plans that send your kids on to the next grade ready to succeed
• ...all while enjoying classroom management that creates a low-stress day

And if you are just starting out on your teaching journey, I can help with "job anxiety":

• Teacher resumes and cover letters that remove your "am I qualified?" concerns
• Teacher interview tips and practice questions that replace performance anxiety with total confidence

Teaching can be filled with the joy of children

While student-centered teaching may never be easy, it can be joyful and fun every day. And if you are just starting into this wonderful career, I want you to know that you've come to the right place for supportive, effective advice and best teaching practices.

I'm a child-development major who has never stopped searching for methods that help children work hard at learning. And I've never stopped perfecting teaching resources for creating an ideal classroom climate.

On every page of this website, you'll discover kid-tested elementary school teacher resources for building respectful and friendly student-teacher relationships...relationships that will form the foundation for the stress-free school days of which you dream.

Learn elementary classroom team-building activities

Discover the benefits of teaching social skills to children so your students are kinder to each other. When your classroom environment is friendly and accepting, you can enjoy the daily activities of your job more and your students enjoy increased social confidence.

I've been through the national board certification process, but I'm not satisfied with theory. Theory has to work in the classroom, so I put education best practices to the test...my student-centered classroom test...so you get only the best teaching resources for making your job rewarding and fun every day.

"I see so much here that will help with my classroom motivation. I love how easy your site is to navigate and read! I have added it to my bookmarks. Thank you for sharing." Celie, Boise, Idaho

Discover effective classroom management resources

Learn how to set behavior expectations that stick.

Get total control of your classroom management and spend less time managing and more time teaching...so you can enjoy your job more.

How? By mastering expectations.

A great teaching day is an endless sequence of setting expectations:

• Lining up
• Walking in the hall
• Putting backpacks away
• Starting the entry task

...and it doesn't end until you wave goodbye. But you know what?

Expectations are the secret to classroom happiness.

Once you have the kids following your expectations, you'll have teaching days that are on cruise control. Of course you'll have to keep your hands on the wheel and your foot near the brake...but that's a huge improvement over skidding on ice.

Do you have some tough discipline cases in your room?

Those can tear you down little by little every day. That's why I've devoted an entire section to classroom discipline:

and the best behavior intervention plan. Learn how to get a handle on student discipline before it infects the rest of your class. You keep your classroom community intact and your kids continue to be happy learners.

Partner with your students' parents

Are your parents working with you or against you?

        Free!

Or pretty much not working at all?

Establish better parent-teacher relationships so you aren't afraid of parent interaction any more. Don't avoid parent-teacher communication…get them to support your classroom goals so it's easier to move students to mastery with less effort

I've put together a free report to help you in your efforts of "Partnering with Parents." Just take a quick questionnaire...and see how many other teachers feel dread or joy as their daily education emotion.

Are test scores stressing you out?

Worried about teacher accountability?

Instead of glancing nervously at the thousand-pound weight hanging over your head, learn to improve your students' test scores by spending less time managing behavior and more time individualizing instruction.

These classroom teacher resources WORK. Get the satisfaction of seeing students of any academic level rise to their full potential in a supportive and accepting classroom community.

Discover how to build your classroom community into a close-knit team…the kind of team you look forward to leading every day.

Substitute teaching...but wanting your own classroom? I'll show you how to excel as a substitute teacher so you can be first in line for the next job opening.

Thanks for the teacher resume examples and interview questions. There's a lot to figure out, but I feel like I know a lot more than before I found your website." Greg, San Leandro, California

Build engagement with technology integration in the classroom

I'm big into technology in elementary schools, but I know that many teachers struggle with multimedia in the classroom. If you take it one step at a time, using the information on this website, you'll be able to keep up with your school district's tech expectations.

That's a win-win: professional development for teachers and greater engagement for students…which leads to increased focus on content and the subject-matter mastery that follows.

"I'm studying in Europe in order to become a teacher and one of our problems is that we do not stimulate participation. I think that if we introduce these student-centered teaching steps our children will be better for it. Keep the good work!" Miliki, Czech Republic

Love your job every day

Whether you are full-time, student teaching, substitute teaching or just volunteering...tomorrow morning, after they hang up their coats and backpacks, find their desks and pick up their pencils, the kids will turn to you...ready to be challenged and changed by your actions for the rest of their lives.

Can you picture it? I can, and I love it!

If you are ready for it, the moment those eyes turn to you, that's your time to be the most important person in a child's life.

And that's when the classroom fun begins!

Take a look around...and please let me know if you have any questions!

PPS - I love our special-needs kids! Teaching autistic children, ADHD in the classroom, homeless students, at-risk students...they all have a special place in my heart. Discover the teacher resources for enabling disadvantaged students to perform at higher levels so you can get the satisfaction of seeing even "difficult" learners blossom.

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