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
088: How to Begin Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction
If we're honest, we KNOW most students skip over the text features when reading nonfiction. Whether …
087: How to Use Technology in the Classroom Effectively
Technology in the classroom is a mixed blessing, right?! I definitely have a love-hate relationship with student technology use in the classroom.
How about you...has student computer use become a pr…
086: How to Do a Classroom Management Spring Reset
085: Why Your Students Need to be Writing More Than They Type
084: Main Idea vs. Theme - What's the Difference?
Do your students struggle with understanding the difference between the main idea vs. the theme? Well...that's understandable. It can be confusing.
Today's episode is all about getting clear on the …
083: The Key to Teaching Students How to Monitor Comprehension
All the Comprehension strategies in the world won’t help our students understand and remember their reading if they don’t know how to monitor their thinking and understanding. Because reading is real…
082: Why Teaching Letter Writing is Still Important
Letter writing may seem unimportant as something to teach your students. It’s outdated, right?! Wrong! Great communication is never outdated. Whether you’re writing an email or a physical letter, the…
#081: How and Why to Teach Your Students to Compare and contrast
Comparing and Contrasting while simple to teach and to learn, don't underestimate its importance as a comprehension strategy and a life skill. Yup, you read that right - life skill. I'll explain that…
80: Tips for Teaching Summarizing in Elementary Grades
#079: Why Making Predictions is an Important Reading Comprehension Strategy
Your students' reading comprehension toolbox would not be complete without knowing how to make predictions using evidence from the text and check for accuracy as they read.
While making predictions c…
078: Reading Skills vs. Reading Strategies - What's the Difference?
Do you ever wonder what the difference is between reading skills and reading strategies? So often the terms are used interchangeably but they are actually 2 different things that use different thinki…
077: How to Teach Listening Skills in Elementary Grades
Do your students seem to hear less and less of what you say? Are they always wanting to be "plugged in" to their own personal bubbles [headphones]? You're not alone!
Listening is fast becoming a lost…
076. January Back-to-School Success: How to Lay the Foundation
Raise your hand if you plan extensively for back-to-school success in the fall. That's pretty much every teacher, isn't it?! But do you put the same attention to detail into planning for your January…
075: Empowering Students with Self-Regulation and Coping Skills with Dr. Michael Gaskell
How do you empower your students to learn to cope better and learn to self-regulate? We're all dealing with different forms of stress and even trauma these days. Students often show their stress in t…
074: How to Teach Your Students to Use Text Evidence
Using text evidence is a skill all students should have to effectively talk about a text and explain their thinking. Yes, even in primary grades! Bold words but true nonetheless.
Let me ask you this.…
073: Why Asking Questions is an Important Skill for Your Students
Your students are great at asking questions, right?! They ask questions ALL the time, but do they know how to ask the right questions when they're reading? Asking questions for better reading compreh…
072. Easy December Reading and Writing Lessons Packed With Learning
You don’t have to sacrifice great learning to keep your students engaged before Christmas break. In today's episode of The Teach Joyfully Podcast, I'm giving you my favorite tips for your holiday l…
071. 5 Key Elements That Impact Reading Comprehension
I don’t believe we can teach real reading comprehension through online programs and online apps. There are 5 key elements that impact your students' reading comprehension. And your students need you,…
#070. The Power of Learning Through Play with Vanessa Levin
Children stacking with cubes, playing with play-doh, and other tactile materials might seem like wasted time to an outsider, but to all a teacher...we KNOW there's so much more going on than just pla…
069. How Author Studies Can Help Create a Community of Readers in Your Classroom
Do your students struggle with engagement in reading? Do you have some students you just can’t seem to get excited about books?
Well, let's add another tool to your teacher toolbox, Author Studies. Y…