I recently posted about what parents can do to keep their children on target with their education if there is an extended school absence. Today, I want to take a look at how teachers can plan for this. I’ve spoken to so many educators who have had to scramble in preparing for the potential of … Read more
Throughout our series, The Ultimate Guide to Brain Break Activities, there has been one consistent in every post. Every time we find a video that is applicable to that particular topic, it comes from YouTube. It’s no surprise that most of our video knowledge base from today comes from YouTube. Why shouldn’t we also look … Read more
Every teacher, no matter their grade level, will have at least one run-in per year with a parent teacher conference. In the younger grades we know these are often scheduled en masse so parents can have a vested interaction with their child’s teachers to know how he or she is progressing in the class. Even … Read more
Has the art of teaching empathy gone by the wayside? In this day in age, it can be argued that the exact opposite is true and we need now, more than ever, to teach our children why empathy is important. It is no secret that it seems like the concept of having empathy for one’s … Read more
**This activity is not currently available on my Teachers Pay Teachers store as the timeline from National Geographic is not active at this time** One of the most difficult aspects of teaching history is making it relevant. If a student doesn’t have a natural interest in a subject, it can get really dry, really quickly. … Read more
If you’ve followed our series on the importance of brain breaks in the classroom (especially brain break games), you know how passionate we are about their need. Not the fact that they’re nice, but that they’re a need. We have students in our classroom that have been in front of a screen since birth. They … Read more
The term growth mindset is on fire in educational circles today. But how does one go about teaching growth mindset? What does growth mindset actually mean? The true definition of a growth mindset has been investigated for decades. With the original intent of researching how individuals responded to failure in mind, Dr. Carol Dweck was … Read more
Over the past few years, “testing” has become a bit of a dirty word in education. What used to be for placement or just checking to make sure students were hitting certain benchmarks has become an orchestrated production. Different states have different requirements, but the sheer volume of testing has increased greatly. With the focus … Read more
Throughout our brain breaks series, we have been discussing various ways to incorporate brain breaks into the classroom. We have discussed books (ad), classroom activities, and places like YouTube. There is one place that we haven’t discussed, and it is versatile in more ways than just with brain breaks. It is by using an Amazon … Read more
Kindergarten is such a fun age. As each school year progresses, the pure desire to learn and the love that is exerted from these children can make anyone who witnesses this happens heart burst. However, anybody who has been to any kindergarten class with several students in it knows one thing: these children are not … Read more
Odds are, no matter what topic you’re discussing or what grade levels you teach, you will not have 100% of your students master the skill the first time you teach it. This isn’t because we’re all terrible teachers; it’s because students learn in different ways and at different paces. This means that you will always … Read more