Ignite Your Teaching
A podcast to help inspire elementary teachers to improve their pedagogy, simplify their systems, and find time-saving tools for their classrooms.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 136
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
235: Simple Setup Tips for Back to School
It’s time to start getting ready for back-to-school season!
I want to talk about what it means to get your classroom back-to-school ready and how to make it manageable and realistic in …
234: How to Do Spiraled Math the Right Way
Have you ever heard me talking about spiraled math instruction and wondered what it would actually look like in your classroom?
In this episode, I’m answering your questions about spira…
233: Math Centers: 4 Ways to Do Centers
Do you like a lot of structure in your classroom, or do you prefer to hand the responsibilities over to your students?
The great thing about math centers is that you get to choose what …
232: Math Centers: What Activities Should You Include?
Have you been wondering how to get started with your math centers?
This is a quick and simple episode breaking down everything you need to know about math centers and what activities to…
231: Get September Ready Now
Are you starting to get ready for summer vacation?
Before you get into full vacation mode to enjoy some well-deserved rest and relaxation, it’s a good idea to take the last few weeks of…
230: How to Get It All Covered in the Time You Have Left
229: Math Centers
Maybe you’re worried that your kids aren’t going to work independently or you don’t know when you’…
228: Fix Your Math Tests
227: Get More Math Assessment Done in Class
What if I told you that you didn’t need to have so many math tests? There are other things you can do to effectively assess your students and generate marks for their report cards witho…
226: Are You Making It Too Simple? How to Avoid Modifying Your Lessons Due to Pandemic Gaps in Learning
If you simplify the work you give your students because it’s too hard, are you accommodating, or are you modifying?
Your students have been through a lot when it comes to learning dur…
225: Accommodating for Gaps in Understanding Due to the Pandemic
There’s a fine line between accommodations and modifications for …
224: Teaching Pandemic Kids
Do your kids work a little differently in the classroom these days?
With COVID restrictions lifting here in Ontario, teaching is finally starting to feel normal again, except for the …
223: So the Curriculum Changed Again… What Should You Do About It?
Sometimes a new curriculum comes at us with little to no warning and we feel like we’re expected to overhaul absolutely every…
222: 3 Things I've Done In My Classroom I Won't Ever Do Again
Are there things you’ve tried in your classroom that you will absolutely never do again?
After 15 years of teaching, I’ve made my fair share of mistakes, but some stand out more than …
221: Are You Really Going to Let Us Play Video Games in Class? Minecraft in the Social Studies Classroom
This is …
220: So You Need to Do Guided Instruction… What the Heck Should You Do With the Rest of Your Class?
What do you do with the rest of your class when you want to do guided reading with a small group?
That’s the question I hope I can answer for you in this episode. We’re digging into a…
219: Stop Taking Your Marking Home
Do you hate marking? Yeah, me too. Marking is a constant struggle. It’s so time-consuming that we feel like the only way to get it all done is to take it home, but when we take it ho…
218: Ideas for Teaching Middle School Writing with Celeste From Teaching Tomorrow
Do you consider yourself a lifelong learner? I feel like a lot of us get into teaching because we love to learn, and our guest on this episode is no exception.
Celeste Kirsh is resea…
217: Why There Is So Much More Than Just Long Division
Have you ever been questioned about how you teach math or why you teach certain strategies? Most of us have.
In this episode, I’m continuing the discussion about new math and why we …
216: Why There Is Nothing Wrong With New Math
Have you ever questioned why you’re teaching so many different ways to do division and multiplication or even addition and subtraction?
Math these days requires us to teach a lot of d…