1. It would be more beneficial to read with students the entire day rather than spend hours teaching "reading strategies." This is especially true with reluctant and low-performing readers.
2. Students have to be taught "writing endurance." They have to experience what it feels like to have writer's block. They also have to practice working through it. Knowing how to write in cursive helps.
3. Class size directly affects learning.
4. Relationships are important - relationships with teammates, administrators, students, and parents. Relationships outside of school are important, too.
5. Recess is important - for the students AND the teachers. The days I had recess duty (rather than lunch duty) were far better.
6. Transition times are the worst. Time spent teaching students how to walk in a line is time well spent.
7. Take attendance on time, and don't piss off the attendance clerk. Have students stack the chairs at the end of the day, and don't piss off the custodian.
8. Expectations are important - the administration's for me, mine for my students', and my students' for me.
9. Coloring can be cathartic.
10. I'm no expert, so listen to others who are!
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