r/MiddleSchoolTeacher

I love teaching and (most of the time) the kids but man, the burn out is bad. What do you all do to help?

(please no the system is broken, it's the parents...etc. I know that and I agree but I don't want to leave education, I want to work through this)

Hi all,
I work at an independent study school where students are all at different places with their English class. Once a week I give English lessons to our middle schoolers. I’m kind of hitting a wall of what to do this week. I’ve already gone over collecting evidence, making inferences, creating an argument with reasoning, and some foreshadowing. Due to the nature of these lessons (an hour and not all students coming consistently) I’d prefer them to be stand alone lessons. I try to make them as interactive as possible. Any ideas help

I teach eighth grade math and I want to be more intentional this year about tracking data and students being able to see how they are doing compared to other students. I want a spot on the wall to show this data. Obviously I wouldn’t use student names, they’ll probably each be assigned a number to look at their data. I want to be able to easily move their trackers as they progress throughout the year, so I don’t want to have to hot glue it to the wall. With that being said, I’m at a loss on how to set up my data wall. Please give me some ideas on how to set it up/what to use.