Author: Jessica Painter
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How to Be a Mentor to Your Student Teacher
By Jessica Painter, Elementary Teacher McGraw Hill 8 min read So, you’re thinking of taking on a student teacher? In the course of my career, I have taken on over a dozen student teachers and all were valuable experiences for one reason or another. I have experienced the bottom of the barrel, the cream of…
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Tips for Shifting Away from Years of Balanced Literacy
By Jessica Painter, Elementary Teacher McGraw Hill 6 min read Like most things in life, approaches to reading instruction ebb and flow. One of the more recent trends in reading instruction was what educators have come to know as balanced literacy. Most trends in education aren’t entirely negative; they have positive elements as well. Balanced…
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Why Kindness Must Be Explicitly Taught to Early Learners
By Jessica Painter, Elementary Teacher McGraw Hill 5 min read In an ever-changing and ever-disagreeing world, something that everyone can agree on is the importance of kindness. As educators, we receive our class in the fall and often have the expectation that kindness is something that our students should just know. We act appalled when little…
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