4 Tips to Improve Higher-Order Questioning in the High School Business Classroom

Questioning is a powerful tool that can shape the learning experience and foster critical thinking skills among students. Questioning can be used to assess student mastery and aid in-the-moment teaching. Questioning can help engage students, assess mastery, and enhance learning. 1. Pre-Plan Questions While spontaneity has its place in the classroom, strategic pre-planning of questionsContinue reading “4 Tips to Improve Higher-Order Questioning in the High School Business Classroom”

The Ultimate Guide to Developing Workplace Skills in the Classroom

As a business teacher, one of the key objectives is to prepare students for the workplace. While covering key concepts is essential, it is equally important to teach the soft skills students need to be successful in the future. To develop workplace skills I recommend directly teaching the skill, applying the skill, and practicing theContinue reading “The Ultimate Guide to Developing Workplace Skills in the Classroom”

Why You Should Stop Performing and Start Facilitating

Do you feel pressure to perform? Like you need to shoot fireworks out of your fingertips to entertain your students? Do you dread those long presentations where you spend the class period talking and you’re even boring yourself? It’s time you stop performing and start facilitating. We’ve all had teachers who seemed to be moreContinue reading “Why You Should Stop Performing and Start Facilitating”

How to Use Stations in Your High School Business Classroom

Are you looking for a way to mix things up in your classroom? Something that would allow you to get students up and out of their seats while maintaining course rigor? Stations are an interactive teaching strategy that can transform a boring class into a collaborative learning experience. Stations can help engage your students andContinue reading “How to Use Stations in Your High School Business Classroom”

5 Ways to Make Your Entrepreneurship Lessons Real-World Applicable

Have you witnessed a student have a “light-bulb” moment? That spark of “I can do this”? They’re excited and you can almost see the connections building. By applying course concepts to the real world, students build connections and see the concepts come to life in the world around them. Regardless of the business class you’reContinue reading “5 Ways to Make Your Entrepreneurship Lessons Real-World Applicable”

3 Strategies to Increase Productivity for High School Teachers

Do you have a never-ending to-do list? Just as you think you’ve checked something off your list it seems as though you have 2 more to add. You know that one step forward, two steps back feeling? I’m a paper calendar and to-do list kind of person because I love marking things off my list.Continue reading “3 Strategies to Increase Productivity for High School Teachers”