Attention seeking students can use up all of your energy, but when you provide them with the right kind of attention they can blossom into engaged students.
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Differentiation doesn't have to entail mountains of extra work. Teacher Rachael Stevens shares her tips for making sure your alterations are both practical and efficient
Grow with Grit in your classroom. Teach your students how to have grit in your classroom and how grit is the action behind a growth mindset.
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Get out of your chair and really participate in learning with these active ideas for better studying.
Remember when I wrote about how my lesson plans were hijacked by curious kids? We had so much fun that day exploring rocks which served to whet their appetite for our trip up north. Or so I thought. Have any of you ever experienced a sense of defeat or let-down when life {and learning} doesn’t […]
QR codes are having a mini resurgence lately. We started to use them in class last year as another way of creating self portraits. One of my students took this new found tool to a new level and used it as a way of creating graffiti. It was wheatpasted on so he felt it was a legal form of protest. The poster came off with water and a scrubbing brush. I was at a conference last term and all the sessions and speaker's details were placed up on a wall in the foyer using QR Codes. It was a great way of distributing the information but it also worked as a conversation starter for many of the participants. How to make your QR Codes more Beautiful was one of our most popular post in the last month and the ITSC in Philadelphia had multiple sessions on the use of QR codes in the classroom so I thought it might be worthwhile reposting this. This presentation has been around for quite a while but it is worth revisiting. https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AclS3lrlFkCIZGhuMnZjdjVfNzY1aHNkdzV4Y3I&hl=en_GB&authkey=COX05IsF&pli=1
The Common Core State Standards are being rolled out this fall, and teachers around the United States are looking for ways to incorporate more nonfiction books into their lessons. I have been devot…
Using Frayer Models in Interactive Notebooks can provide students with concrete understanding of new words as building a reference for the future.
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