We’ve been sharing tips and ideas for you for the past 2 years and now we want to address the bigger picture!  So, what is this bigger picture? We call it the Teaching Bites Lifestyle Template and we want you to reduce your stress, worry and health problems while increasing your joy, happiness and love for others!  Don’t you agree that we need to prevent burnout and sustain our teaching lifestyle?  In this template, you write your own goals for each quadrant: HEALTH, FINANCES, PROFESSIONAL AND RELATIONSHIPS.  For example, in health, we all need to work on eating healthier, increasing our quality of sleep, and engaging in deep breathing and meditation.  As you work on your goals, listen to our show as we offer tips and ideas for these four quadrants in the form of interviews with experts, articles, links, and videos, etc.

Another cool thing about this is that we want you to follow us as we tackle these four these big ideas as we have a lot to improve on.  Maybe we’ll include spirituality, too!  Do you have tips that work? Please share with your fellow teachers out there by joining/posting them on our private Facebook group- The Teaching Bites Community.  Or even posting on Instagram with the hashtag #TeachingBitesLifestyle!  Once again, here’s the FREE Teaching Bites Lifestyle Template that you can start using NOW! Cheers to all of us as we figure this all out!

This show is brought to you by Rhoda Design Studios’ Teachers Pay Teachers Store.  She has task cards, clip art, brag tags, language arts, math and classroom management products that are low prep to no prep for 2nd-5th grade teachers. Save time and check out Rhoda Design Studios!

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While we were having our breakfast in the United States, our special guest, Charlee Iddon was about to have her dinner all the way across the pond in the United Kingdom!  Charlee has been teaching for five years in Kent, near London, and has already established herself all over social media where she shares her teaching ideas on her blog and runs her Teachers Pay Teachers Store (TpT)- The Ginger Teacher!  

She’s always wanted to be a teacher, so when her daughter was older, she went back to school to get her teaching certification.  She currently teaches year 3, which is 2nd grade in the U.S. and started blogging fun.  She was also a speaker at the BETT conference for ed tech teachers.  During her PGCE (post-graduate certificate in education), she was openly sharing all of her teaching resources so much that she was the go-to person.  Then, her colleague suggested she start charging for her work on Teachers Pay Teachers!  Find out how putting up a freebie, leaving it there and coming back to check up on it got her hooked!  How does she overcome the negative feedback and move on?  How does Tim Ferris’ book, The 4 Hour Chef help her business?  In her TpT store, she sells complete units of work (1 month or more of lessons), clip art, holiday, math, handwriting, history, back to school, science and English resources.  Check out her store!

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This episode is all about what’s coming in the tech world and how it plays into education!  Augmented reality (AR) like Google Cardboard, Pokemon Go, etc., virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) are all here to stay and can be used to go on “field trips”, teach empathy and perhaps spark something big!  Who doesn’t want a robot that cleans our homes automatically? Robotics– building and programming robots allows for critical thinking and collaboration while helping humanity.  Are we preparing our students for jobs that don’t yet exist?  Technology is here to stay and we can’t stop it.  So, we might as well embrace it and use it as an amazing and motivating teaching tool!  We’re also keeping an eye out on coding, artificial intelligence products such as Google Home, Amazon Alexa, etc. and the Race to Mars!  Space X and NASA are doing amazing things and with the highly anticipated release of the new movie, Hidden Figures, now is the time to be inspired to go to Mars!

This show is brought to you by Rhoda Design Studios’ Teachers Pay Teachers Store.  She has task cards, clip art, brag tags, language arts, math and classroom management products that are low prep to no prep for 2nd-5th grade teachers. Save time and check out Rhoda Design Studios!

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