The Teach Joyfully Podcast
How do I leave my work at school so I can rest and recharge without the teacher guilt? How do I efficiently stay on top of all the planning, prep and grading? How do I train my students to [mostly] self-monitor so I can really teach? How can I create a community of focused learners in my classroom? How can I help my students grow into committed readers and writers? And the biggest question of all, can I REALLY streamline and simplify my literacy instruction while helping students make more than expected progress in reading and writing?
Welcome to the Teach Joyfully Podcast where we will answer ALL of these questions and so much more!
Week after week, your host, Lisa Burns, brings you the language arts strategies, classroom management tips, daily organizational tricks, and inspirational stories that can help YOU become the confident, highly effective teacher you dream of being while still having a personal life. Lisa shares do-able tips and strategies [that actually work in REAL classrooms] that she has used to become an incredibly effective elementary teacher, teacher success coach, workshop provider and your new teacher bestie. Along with sharing her best kept secrets, she interviews industry peers, fabulous teachers in the trenches and other professionals who will share their secrets to ensure you too can simplify AND do great things to help your students make incredible growth.
With thousands of downloads [and counting], the Teach Joyfully Movement is growing every day and now it’s YOUR TURN to get inspired, simplify and tackle your biggest teacher goals along the way.
What do you say? Are you in? Because we believe that a joyful teacher is a good teacher. Go ahead…Listen in now!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
108: A Simple, Effective Behavior Management System
Classroom management is the backbone, the framework that supports everything else you do in your classroom. In fact, it's impossible to teach well if your classroom isn't running smoothly. If your st…
107: How to Structure your Literacy Teaching Time
Teaching literacy is not an easy task. Neither is planning for literacy instruction and getting enough time to actually teach all the things!
Do you struggle to fit all the things you need to teach …
106: How to Teach Classroom Systems and Routines
Training your class in your systems and routines or procedures is one of the most important things you will do to set your class up for success all year. Why? Well, imagine your students are able to …
105. What is the Science of Reading and is it Just Another Education Bandwagon
I'm sure you've heard this term a few (hundred) times lately...the science of reading. But, what is the science of reading? And honestly, it is just another education bandwagon because we see that AL…
104: The Importance of Self Care for Teachers and Where to Begin
Creating habits for teacher self-care is truly the only way that regular self-care will happen in your life.
Habits? Routine? You're a pro, right?! Well sure...for helping your students and keeping y…
103: 7 Classroom Organization Tips That Will Save You Time All Year
Classroom organization tips? Yes, please!
I love to talk about classroom organization. If you ask, my kids will tell you that the Container Store is my mothership. 😂 Sad, but true. I LOVE having thin…
102. Tips for How to Organize Your Classroom Library
Classroom library woes? Figuring out how to organize your classroom library is harder than we imagine it will be. There are so many decisions to be made and each one changes how our class library fun…
101: 9 Types of Scaffolding When Teaching
I know you practice scaffolding when teaching, but do you know you're doing it?
What is scaffolding instruction? Scaffolded teaching is when we use various techniques to support students in their lea…
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If you’re paying attention….this is the 100th episode of The Teach Joyfully Podcast. Wow! Where does the time go?!
Today's episode is all about how to use task cards in the classroom. I love ideas, a…
099: Why Shouting is a Sign of Deeper Classroom Management Problems
098: Reading Aloud - My 100 Book Literacy Strategy
Shh! I have a secret reading aloud strategy. It’s true, and I’m sharing it with you in this episode.
I read 100+ book a year to my students to increase their literacy. Ok. I do a lot of other things …
097: 5 Simple Summer Writing Activities
Do you struggle to get your students or even your own kids writing over the summer? I get it! Most kids have no motivation or interest in writing during their summer break.
So...
How do we get our s…
096: 11 Tips for Summer Reading Success
How do you inspire your students to actually do summer reading?
Once summer hits, kids' schedules go haywire and all bets are off when it comes to practicing reading and other skills. Honestly, I nev…
095: Should You Quit Teaching? How to Know If It's Time
Teaching is HARD! It's a profession filled with joys and frustration. But when…
094: End of the Year Activities: Poems for Two Voices
As we near the end of the school year, having end of the year activities ready for your students becomes imperative. Everything is winding down, most, if not all, of the concepts have been taught, an…
093: End of the School Year: Survival Guide
Are you stressed about the end of the year or sprinting toward it as fast as you can? I’m always a bit of both, honestly. It’s a busy and bittersweet time for me. Endings are hard when we’ve all grow…
092: Teaching Poetry in Elementary Grades
#091: 5 Steps to Successful Small Group Instruction
Is teaching reading in small groups stressful? Do you ever wonder if your students are even getting enough value from their group time to make it worth your effort?
As a young teacher I know I strug…
090: Teaching Genre in Primary Grades
When we take time for teaching genre in primary grades, it's not just one more thing to teach on our already full plates. Learning to read is a journey and understanding genre can empower our student…
089: 5 Strategies to Find the Main Idea in Nonfiction Text
Do your students struggle with finding the main idea in nonfiction text? Do you avoid teaching this concept as long as you can? I get it! Main or central idea is hard for so many students to grasp. I…