It's important for teachers to have a strong support system—especially in the first few years of their career. Help teachers' partners, spouses, and friends understand the most compassionate ways to provide emotional support with a...

Make your substitute's life easier by using the prompts on a one-page resource to a craft a profile of your classes and your daily routines. A great-first page for a substitute teacher folder.

Prepare for your students first day of school with these inviting activities. This site features several great ideas for teachers to incorporate in their beginning of school lessons.

This site offers suggestions for first-day of school activities for primary and intermediate level teachers.

Several tips for teachers to try during the beginning days of the school year to get things off to a smooth start.

Sixth graders read a poem to see the importance of class rules and behaviors.

Sixth graders understand what the bucket of kindness is and how they can use it to earn rewards as a class.

Multiple back to school resources. Includes icebreakers, quick first day ideas, and unit plans.

Sixth graders will role play with the teacher to reinforce classroom procedures.

Sixth graders will take a test and be surprised at how similar their teacher is to them.

Sixth graders will learn about each other from a toilet paper activity.

Students will practice their ability to acknowledge new information expressed by classmates. A good lesson for the first day of school!

Contains plans for two lessons of get-to-know-you activities that use a Name Bingo Game to help students break the ice with each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

Is this your first year teaching? Here are tricks of the trade that are helpful to know. Includes tips on management, discipline, lesson plans for all grades and subjects and more! This is your complete survival guide!

Lesson Plans Page provides a teacher exchange of ideas tied to the season, time of year, or holiday.

Students re-create a big green monster!

Students will float up, up, and away with the color blue!

Students will get creative with the color orange!

Students will BUZZ about the color yellow!

Students review and conclude our color unit. Students graph their favorite colors.

This is a great "first day of first-year German" activity. Using the melody to "Are You Sleeping" introduce learners to a typical exchange of greetings. If taught on the first day of school, students will be able to "speak German"...

Contains plans for two lessons that use "My Teacher's Secret Life" by Stephen Krensky as a getting-acquainted activity. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...

Exercise in which participants introduce themselves by sharing information about their ethnicities and backgrounds, highlighting the similarity and diversity among members of the class.

Great idea for the beginning of the year. Uses the book Clifford's First School Day by Norman Bridwell as the starting place for students to make their own book about going to school.