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Andrew Mutaawe

11 Proactive classroom management tips for every teacher

Join Our Telegram Group Managing a classroom can be hard whether you’re a newbie or you’ve spent a couple of years in teaching. Students are just students, and everyone has their own personality. However, there are some brilliant and proactive ways you can manage the classroom and keep your students in check. In this article, […]

Deepening student engagement in online discussions in 7 simple steps

Join Our Telegram Group This whole transition from physical to online classes is all cool until you realize that your students aren’t as hooked onto your lessons as they would’ve been in a physical class. This is mainly because of factors like; Having distractions on their phones/ computers Distractions around the location where they’re having […]

Actionable solutions to chronic forgetfulness among students

Forgetting is what every student is afraid of whenever they’re learning something new or reviewing what they read some time back. Much as we might say that it’s inevitable to forget, there are so many ways that we can prevent or at least tone down on the rate at which we forget things. But first […]

7 recommended study techniques for students

As an experienced teacher, you know that students perform poorly sometimes because of using the wrong study techniques – which is actually a more dominant factor than their innate intelligence. When you go out and scrape the web for answers, you’ll find lots of suggestions that might even blow your mind. However, this article contains […]

Building an environment of trust around your teachers

While teachers are your employees, it is very important that you show (or at least pretend) that you trust them. This makes it very beneficial to the smooth and fair progress of affairs in the school. Building trust among your staff has immense benefits like; Creating a positive attitude towards work, among the teachers Making […]

How to help students beat their comprehension problems

So many students have found themselves in a situation where they have read a full text and can’t remember anything they read or what it’s even about. Comprehension is more about understanding than memory, and problems in this case include; Low fluency Limited vocabulary Low decoding skills Failure to apply background knowledge All those factors […]

School leaders can support their teachers: Here’s how

In the short-sighted perspective, a school is just like any other business and teachers are just employees. However, the definition is not as simple as that. Teachers are the people helping you to shape a generation of literate students in different disciplines. This is exactly why they need to be supported by their school administrators […]

How To Avoid Getting Mad At Your Students

Getting angry is so very common among both the new teachers and the experienced ones. When I was a student, I always wondered why we had some of our teachers with this unique ability of not getting angry even when the situation called for it, or at least they did their best not to show. […]

How To Stop Children From Watching Pornography

Porn is like a virus in many people’s brains, and we’ve probably found a way to live with that fact, but it hits differently to know that your child is using their WiFi to watch pornography. There are multiple sites and ads everywhere, and it all gets to the point where we ask ourselves what […]

The DOs and DON’Ts of Teaching

Teaching is just like any other career, and many things are fragile and have to be handled with care. There are some things that will make you successful in your career, while other factors will put you down. Many teachers over the years have messed up, and many of them still mess up, and if […]

How To Hire Good Teachers At Your School

A teacher has  a big part and huge role to play in the success of every student, and the school at large. It’s really hard to get a teacher that’s well articulate, punctual, bold, cooperative, resourceful, and all other qualities, but you should know that there’s no such teacher with all these qualities in one […]