10 Commandments Project

I saw this chart on Pinterest and couldn't help but post it to my classroom blog. Right before I found this I was thinking about how I want to create my "10 Commandments" to my future students. Basically, it would include things I promise to my students. I wouldn't tell them about my 10 Commandments, but it would be more of a personal guidelines for me as the teacher. I would print it out, laminate it, and keep it in a safe place.

These Commandments will reflect what I think will create the best learning environment. The list above of classroom management is a great thing to remember when I make my 10 commandments. I'll come back to this post at a later date when I decide it's time to write these commandments.

Top 10 Teacher Quotes found from eCollege Finder

1. “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” – Clay P. Bedford
2. “The objective of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert Maynard Hutchins
3. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Brooks Adams
4. “A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers
5. “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” – Josef Albers
6. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin as “Edith Ann”
7. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
8. “Man’s mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
9. “The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” – Author Unknown
10. “To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

Organizational Strategies

Great Organizational ideas from websites/blogs:

This teacher created a file system for learning standards and related activities.

File System for Standards 

Great idea for a reading wall that uses gutters purchased from Home Depot.

Book Wall

This teacher designed an awesome reading corner. 

Reading Corner Inspiration