It's a well known fact that people respond better to positive situations. Workers work harder and more efficiently, and students learn more effectively when the environment is a positive one. The following are just a few of the biggest things you can do to create the kind of classroom environment that will make your students almost eager to come to class, or at the very least keep them from...

Teaching is one of the most complex professions in existence, with a lot of nuances that most people will never have any clue about. A teacher has to run a gauntlet of having more children than the octomom, a lot of rules and regulations handed down by people who have never taught a class and parents who think the job consists of little more than coloring and reading out loud. The fact that any...