Ideas for Keeping Students Learning as Christmas Approaches
As a teacher, do you struggle with keeping your students focused as Christmas vacation inches forward?
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Christmas Classroom Craft: Skip Counting Booklets
Give your child some practice with even numbers while creating a cute Christmas keepsake.
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Six Ways to Help Shy Students Feel Comfortable
Whether they are an introvert or just a bit shy, dealing with a quiet child can be a challenge. Here are six things you can do as a teacher to reach out and make students feel more at ease in your classroom.
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Four Ways to Help Students Regulate Their Emotions
Because students deal with so many social, emotional, and mental issues, in addition to overworked school schedules, it’s hard for them to get a handle on the emotions these issues create. This is most evident within a classroom setting.
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Balancing the Student’s Best Interests with Parental Requests
A 2022 British Council survey found that 79 percent of parents in Wales said teachers play a vital role in society. That’s got to make teachers feel good.
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8 Books Promoting Morals and Values for Your Students
Protecting the innocent is a theme woven throughout the book through the characters.
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6 Ways Your Students Learn When You Read Aloud
Our teacher read “The Phantom Tollbooth” aloud to our class. Along the way, we gladly used our imaginations and entered into the story. We marveled at the endless wordplay.
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Keeping Up with Student Slang
With hundreds of students passing you in the school halls, you hear slang much more than parents or other adults. Rather than ignore or reject these new phrases, it’s vital to (at the very least) understand their definitions.
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Teaching Conflict Resolution Strategies
One of the most important life skills we can teach our students is the ability to solve social conflicts independently.
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Helping Students Affected by the Digital Divide
A computer chasm exists for students in rural, inner-city, and international settings with limited or no computer access. A public library or school may be the only place students can access computers.
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Using Differentiation in the Classroom
Differentiated instruction is the process of tailoring lessons to meet each student’s individual interests, needs, and strengths. Teaching this way gives students choice and flexibility in how they learn, and helps teachers personalize the learning for each child.
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Helping Students Who Don’t Have Internet at Home
In 2020, an estimated “two-thirds of school-aged students around the world didn’t have internet access.” Here are some solutions for those students without access to the internet at home.
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