These favorite classroom management ideas and tools are easy, inexpensive and effective classroom management solutions for any classroom.
Assessment of ESL students does not have to be complicated. Here is a short overview of Bloom's taxonomy, what assessment is and ideas for ESL assessment.
When it’s time to teach my students to summarize, I love to use the Somebody Wanted But So Then (SWBST) strategy. Today I want to share a few tools you can use when teaching this reading strategy.
ChatterPix Kids is a great app for integrating technology and reading. In this tutorial I am going to show you the basics of what the ChatterPix Kids app looks like and provide 9 ideas for you to try with your students.
Kids love music! I try to find ways to incorporate it throughout our school day. It is such an amazing learning tool. My Songs for the Year
The procedures are taught, the students know your expectations, but you still find yourself repeating directions over and over again. Use Mystery Students!
If you haven't tried using the Desmos tool in your classroom yet, check out their activities to use in Algebra.
Ideas, lessons, products, crafts, and more for the kindergarten classroom!
Fall songs that are tried and true and loved by teachers and parents. Use these fall songs for circle time, for preschool, for kindergaten, and more!
I love using the Two Truths and a Lie strategy to get students practicing applying math concepts in my class. Normally, this is used as an ice breaker. For example, I might share the following three
This post is a long time coming. I've been using Notion since 2017, but it's been a slow journey to get to a point where I can say that our relationship is official. Notion is now an invaluable tool for how I operate my life, and I'm excited to walk through how I use it. My history of productivit
Pocket hole joints can move out of alignment when driving pocket screws. Using clamps is the best way to keep workpieces in position when assembling projects.
Congratulations to all of our scholars graduating this year! Gertrude the Grumpy chick (free pattern) would love to celebrate with this graduation cap pattern. Time: ~1 hour MATERIALS: *Click HERE for a list of my favorite tools. #3 light worsted yarn in black (Hobbii Friends Cotton Yarn 8/8) Embroidery thread in
Every summer about this time, I start to get the itch. You know, what will I add/subtract/continue to do in my classroom this year? This year I'm changing a lot because it will only be my 2nd year in the role of a reading intervention teacher. Last year was all about learning the ropes of my new position and my new school. I was just treading water. I'd like to think this year I know a little more and I can offer a lot more to my position. One thing I'm adding is punch cards! I plan to use these punch cards in different ways for each of my groups, grades K-2, because their needs are different too! Read on to see how I'm using punch cards this year, plus a few ideas for classroom teachers too! I will be using punch cards to monitor reading with my 1st and 2nd graders. I will send home punch cards in their take-home book baggies. Parents will initial for every book read, then I will punch the image to show I've checked it. The monthly themes of my punch cards add an extra initiative to their at-home reading and it's such an easy way to keep track of who is reading regularly (their nightly reading is optional from me). I will add empty punch cards to their student file and come progress report time I have an instant image of who was reading regularly and who I can recommend more at-home reading to. Other Ways to Use Them to Monitor Reading... Have older students reading chapter books, or want to stress quality reading, not quantity? Have parents initial for every 10 minutes read, or have students punch during Daily 5 for every 5, 10, 15 minutes read to focus on stamina. Punch cards as incentives will mostly be used with my little K friends, although I am not above breaking them out for my older friends as well. My time with my littles ones is precious, as I am spread out between 8-10 classes. And we all know how short of an attention span our little ones have, so I will be using my punch cards as a way to keep them focused for as long as possible. We will be punching for coming to groups quickly, staying on task, completing a task or mini-assignment, being a helpful friend to others in group, and extra effort. I will be punching away. Punches alone are the perfect incentive. They do not need to be tied to extra prizes. Just saying, "Wow, Brady, you earned 3 punches today!!!" is enough for my little friends. I will also let them pick out their own punch cards instead of using them seasonally because, why not? Other Ways to Use Them as Incentives... Independently or Whole Class: you might not want an extra thing to use with your whole class, or you might want a collective way to inspire your kids. There are no rules with these things! Use them for behavior, at specials times only (the gym teacher gives a punch or she doesn't: EASY!), at dismissal (I wish I thought to use these my first year when dismissal was a HOT MESS for poor first year me!), during arrival, etc, etc, etc I will have a separate punch card for each of my reading groups (there's so many to choose from)! Anytime my students get a compliment from someone else, they will receive a punch on their group card. There are plenty of opportunities for compliments: we have to walk down to my classroom and back and we share a classroom with another intervention teacher. I also plan on punching the group's card if any of my students' teachers come to me with a compliment about progress in class. Each time a group's punch card is filled, I will have a fun reward, like no shoes or gum in small groups. Using the punch cards this way is important for me because, as a non-classroom teacher, I struggle with the amount of time to spend on procedures and routines when my primary role is an interventionist. Classroom management has always been one of my strengths and I found it was more difficult this past year not doing my usual beginning of the year lessons on behavior, procedures, and routines. Punch cards will offer a great assist in my management program as pull-out teacher. Punch cards are great for classroom teachers to use to monitor and track homework. During my last few years as a classroom teacher we had "choice homework"...90% of our homework was by choice and the remaining 10% had to be done each week. I wish I'd had punch cards during those last few years. Students would receive a punch for the required homework and a bonus punch for any choice homework also completed. Punch cards work great for any homework program, though. An easy, student-centered way, to monitor homework completion. Do you do timed tests in your classroom? AR? Xtra Math? Any skills you assess using progress monitoring would be a great way to use punch cards. Have students keep individual goals and write the steps for getting to that goal? They can punch their card every time they complete a step along the way. Bonus for letting students choose and punch their own cards! This will really help them take ownership of their own work and goals. As you can see, I've really thought through how I'm going to use my punch cards this year! Now not the next 23,982 things I want to work on for the next school-year! If you're interested in using punch cards in your classroom or small groups this year, you can grab them from TpT by clicking the picture below. They include a theme for each month of the school-year (some have two themes because I couldn't decide), plus 5 extra sets for even more student choices! Black ink, so they're printer friendly...print on bright cardstock and you're good to go! Have other suggestions for how to use punch cards? Leave them below! Happy Teaching, Friends!
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Let's make a a DIY dry erase board today! You can use your DIY dry erase board for homeschooling, kids play, or even games! Kids of all ages, and parents,
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I love anchor charts and use them daily. They are such a great tool in my classroom, for my students, as well as for myself. Read this blog post for ideas on how to create
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It seems like there's a new program, app, or Chrome extension for the classroom popping up every day. If you're looking for a tried and true guide to helpful teacher tech that will make life easier in your classroom, read through this quick post today.
I See Ocean Animals Interactive Reader is a great tool to help improve reading skills and increase vocabulary.
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