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Everyone on the Teaching With a Mountain View team is a current or former elementary teacher. Combined, we have almost 50 years of experience in the classroom! But we were all first year teachers at some point and still vividly remember the struggles (and celebrations!) of those years. There are so many new teachers entering our field right now, so we’re on a mission to share the BEST resources for new teachers. Find them below!

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This blog post is PACKED with practical advice for new teachers, straight from experienced upper elementary teachers who have been exactly where you are.

Practical Advice for New Teachers, Straight From Our Community

Here are my favorite smart classroom purchases that maximize the impact of every cent you have to spend as a teacher.

8 Types of Smart Classroom Purchases

This Teaching With a Mountain View Resource guide is your shortcut to finding exactly what you need for your students separated by topic and season for easy navigation.

Teaching With a Mountain VieW Resource Guide

Read our first year teacher tips and learn everything we WISH we had known! We'll cover classroom management, lesson planning, parent communication, and more.

The Best First Year Teacher Tips

Whether you’re preparing for a scheduled observation or want to ace an unannounced walkthrough, this list of classroom observation tips will help!

Classroom Observation Tips

These tips will help you minimize missing assignments and develop a time-saving system for organizing student work in upper elementary.

Tips for Organizing Student Work

Use this bundle to prepare upper elementary emergency sub plans. Also includes practical tips to help you prepare for a guest teacher.

Emergency Sub Plans and Guest Teacher Tips

The best teacher hacks, classroom organization tips, classroom systems, and classroom management strategies from upper elementary teachers.

The Ultimate List of Teacher Hacks

Learn how to organize student supplies on the first day of school and keep them organized all year long too.

How To Organize Student Supplies

Upper elementary classroom management tips. Put these essential routines in place NOW for success all year.

Classroom Management Tips: Essential Daily Routines

If you are scratching your head wondering how you can best utilize your classroom parent volunteers, here is your guide!

How to BEST Utilize Your Classroom Parent Volunteers

Tips for organizing your upper elementary literacy block. Includes daily routines, whole group lessons, and literacy rotations.

How I Organize My Literacy Block

Math Workshop Ideas for Upper Elementary

Math Workshop Ideas for Upper Elementary

practical classroom decor tips upper elementary

Practical Classroom Decor Tips

free first week of school lesson plans, back to school lesson plans

Free First Week of School Plans

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professional Development For Teachers

Engaging in professional development opportunities can provide fresh perspectives, new strategies, and valuable skills that will benefit both you and your students. Browse my FREE professional development opportunities. I hope these resources help you reflect, set goals, and invest in your continuous growth as educators!

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I’m SO excited to start this next week! These fo I’m SO excited to start this next week! These four books complement each other spectacularly well and are perfect for incorporating “spooky season” into your classroom without focusing on Halloween! 

👏 Comment below, and I’ll send you links to all the info you need! 

I love each and every one of these books, not only for the beautiful messages embedded throughout, but for their glorious art and thought provoking themes. This year, I plan to read one each week during morning meeting and complete the same four tasks each time, as shown on the anchor chart. ⬇️ 

🧡 Character Change throughout the books
🧡 Themes of each book and then an overarching theme of all four
🧡 Themes/Vocab/Imagery/Connotations associated with themes of light and dark (this is my favorite part)!
🧡 First impressions and what’s actually under the surface
Honestly, these slides make my life SO much easier Honestly, these slides make my life SO much easier, and my students are totally engaged. 🫶 Comment below, and I’ll send you a FREE set of reading slides to use tomorrow.
Designing Place Value Parks will NEVER get old! Co Designing Place Value Parks will NEVER get old! Comment below, and I’ll send you this freebie so your Monday plans are ready. 🤗 This was the very first of a dozen FREE Math Pictures I created, and it still lives on as a favorite! 

So…. You might be wondering: How do you end up with eight slides in your Place Value Park? 🧐 By having a zip code with an 8 in the ten thousands place, of course! 🤩 🛝
All totally FREE and inspired by the most frequent All totally FREE and inspired by the most frequently asked questions from parents! 🫶 I like to have sets of these ready to go for parents on conference night, and they’re always a hit. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you all the links! 💕
Sooo do we love any of the same things? 🤔 🤭 Sooo do we love any of the same things? 🤔 🤭
Kids will never not love a good old fashioned task Kids will never not love a good old fashioned task card scavenger hunt! 🫶 If you’re teaching place value too, I’ve got you covered with a HUGE and FREE place value guide! Comment below, and I’ll send it to you. 🩷
Success stickers and accomplishment animals are ro Success stickers and accomplishment animals are rocking and rolling this year! 👏 Kids of EVERY age love these goodies, and I love how much I learn about kids every time they share with me —  I even have former students who are now sixth graders who come in and share successes with me! Comment below, and I will send you links to my faves. 🫶
Error Analysis forever and always!! 👏 🫶 Comm Error Analysis forever and always!! 👏 🫶 Comment below for a FREE addition with regrouping set and tons more info about why and how I teach kids to analyze their errors. 

🧮 I started using this in my classroom years ago when Marzano identified it as an exceptional way to promote thinking and learning. Over the years, I’ve created DOZENS of sets for every upper elementary math concept! 👏
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