Today’s classrooms are challenging places! Are you a new teacher or student teacher looking for tips, tools, and strategies to make surviving and thriving during your first year easier? This webinar, given by veteran educators Kathy Lundy and Larry Swartz, has everything you need to start teaching on the right foot.
Kathy will talk about how to build and strengthen classroom communities both face-to-face and online; how to teach with imagination, grace, and insight; and how to use classroom management tips effectively. She will also explore the importance of building relationships with students so you can develop a sense of yourself as a teacher.
Larry will highlight easy-to-follow strategies that can be used with any book on any day to promote better reading with students. With hands-on tools such as Thinking Stems, Interactive Read-Alouds, Questioning, and many more, you’ll be able to build a vibrant reading community in your new classroom.
Larry Swartz is a literacy and drama instructor at OISE–University of Toronto. For the past 40 years, Larry has worked as a classroom teacher, as a consultant, and as a workshop presenter. He has met with teachers throughout North America, with...
Kathleen Gould Lundy is a teacher, consultant, popular speaker, and education leader. The author of many books for teachers, she is involved in the development of curriculum documents and videos on many aspects of learning. She teaches in the...