The document presents ten tips for teachers to enhance the back-to-school experience, emphasizing motivation, parent engagement, and creating a dynamic classroom environment. It advocates for proactive classroom management, technology integration, and fostering relationships while encouraging creativity and fun in learning. Quotes from Albert Einstein highlight the importance of enabling conditions for students' learning.

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Back to School
Like a Boss! 10 Tips

2. It is the supreme art
of the teacher to
awaken joy in
creative expression
and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

3. #1 Walk in motivated!

4. Before class begins …
Exercise
Eat breakfast Give yourself
peptalks
Relax with
musicMeditate

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6. #2 Engage
Parents!

7. Host parent workshops!

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9. Get students & parents to sign an Acceptable/
Responsible Use Policy (AUP)

10. Utechtips.com/2009/07/31/aup-driven-by-vision-not-protection/

11. “I never teach my
pupils, I only
attempt to provide
the conditions in
which they can
learn.”
- Albert Einstein

12. #3 Change your classroom environment!

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Makerspaces!

15. Learning Stations

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Take it outside!

17. #4 Let students create their learning environment!
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18. #4 Let students create their learning environment!
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Decorate the bulletin board
Photo collageIdea paint
Design their virtual learning spaces

19. “What is right is
not always
popular and
what is popular is
not always right.”
- Albert Einstein
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20. #5 Be proactive & preventive when it
comes to classroom management

21. Come up with the rules together
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22. • Arrive on time
• Be nice to others
• Share
• Clean after myself
• Listen

23. “I never made
one of my
discoveries
through the
process of
rational thinking”
- Albert Einstein

24. #6 Unbind
yourself from
textbooks

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26. Lesson Planning

27. #7 Build your survival kit!

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29. “Only a life lived
for others is a life
worthwhile.”
- Albert Einstein
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30. #8 Cultivate relationships!

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32. #9 Integrate technology effectively

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Pedagogy is the
driver, technology
is the accelerator.
- Michael Fullan
Via Steve-wheeler.blogspot.com

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35. Add a technology
component to current
lessons or projects

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37. #10 Make it fun!

38. They may forget what you said but
they will never forget how you
made them feel. - Carol Buchner

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