These fun reader's scripts allow students to master fluency and perform for their classmates! These three, free, downloadable scripts are appropriate for the primary classroom.
This resource explains how parents can best prepare for their child's online parent-teacher-student interview.
This 2.5-3 hour course is intended for teacher professional development.
*Choose your own adventure
*Juicy questions
*Unit rates
*Using maps
*Good Questions
Some great ideas in here!
Telling time to the nearest minute can be difficult for many students. These fun ways to teach telling time make the concept enjoyable and easier to grasp. Each activity comes with a free printable. All you have to do is download and print them!
1. What Time Is It?!
2. Now Showing: Movie Time!
3. Musical Clocks
4. I Spy Time
5. Time For …
Short 5 minute videos by Shelley Moore on Inclusive Education.
A student’s sense of belonging can come from connections with both peers and adults. This downloadable guide includes five strategies for building strong relationships with students and creating a positive school culture where everyone feels they belong.
*Activities & Templates are provided!
Culture is crucial. Teachers want to build it in the classroom. School administrators want to build it in their schools. How do we build relationships with students, set standards, and make school a place where students want to be?
The classroom is a good place to start. This video shares 5 ways to build school culture with your interactive display.
Samsung has a fantastic interactive display called the Samsung Interactive Pro. This is the tool being used in the video, but the same strategies can be used with any interactive display device.
Here are the 5 ways to build school culture with your interactive display:
#1 - Classroom Rules and Norms Brainstorming Session
#2 - Get to Know You Unboxing Video Activity
#3 - Create a Digital Appreciation Board
#4 - Create a Class Banner or Quilt
#5 - Do a Digital "What Do You Remember" Activity
The 6 STEP PROCESS OF PBL is a Problem Solving Process that allows you to break down and organize the structure of a PBL Unit into six different stages: 1. Define the Problem, 2. Solution Criteria, 3. Solution Research, 4. Pick a Solution, 5. Create, Run, and Inspect Solution, and 6. Reflect on Solution.
This terrific resource has a FREE PDF file of this process and how to run each step. The site also includes many resources, blog articles, examples of the process in elementary, middle and high schools, rubrics, videos and more at each step of the process. A great one-stop shop!
There are ways we can approach teaching that will help prepare our students for an AI future - and at the same time, AI-proof your assignments.
Some of these ideas include:
*Why over what
*Process over product
*Stress problem-solving
*Teach ethics explicitly
*Teach how to become a better learner explicitly
*Stress collaboration
Did you enjoy reading 7 Mighty Moves: Science-Based, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-3 Reading Success? This practical book, written by teacher and author Linday Kemeny, outlines 7 “moves” to align instruction with reading research. Use these slides to support a book study in your school or board. Developed by Kate Winn, the slides have key takeaways and discussion questions for each move, supporting insightful discussion and collaboration among your colleagues.
This resource has The Writing Revolution templates and posters.
A collection of videos and ideas to help teach GRIT to your students.
Help Your Students Upload Some New Beliefs.
A visual tool for eradicating "mind viruses" once and for all.
A mind virus is like a piece of software we download into our brains, and bad software or viruses can corrupt our entire system in the form of negative thinking. It?s possible, however, to upload new software that serves us better. We?ve created an infographic poster to help you do that?we call it 9 Common Mind Viruses.
It features some of the most common negative thoughts students can have, and how you can help get past them. These are all about fostering student inspiration in the toughest of times. This is the medicine to fight the mind virus off once and for all.
Use ?the medicine? prescribed to get students to look at the statement from a different angle and help them turn it around into something positive.
The inquiry learning examples below will give you some ideas for launching a successful project or unit with your students. Moreover, they are engaging, motivating, and challenging for all grade levels.
Differentiation is a teaching method that varies the content, process, product or learning environment related to student interest, learning profile or readiness.
AFIRM Modules are designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) with learners with autism from birth to 22 years of age. Supplemental materials and handouts are available for download.
A Repository of AI tools for teachers from Dan Fitzpatrick - The AI Educator
This list is continuously updated to reflect new AI tools for educators. The list describes the tool and indicates if the resources is free, and highlights what it can be best used to do.
Remember, nothing can replace your professionalism or knowledge of your students, so use these tools with that in mind. What is created will not be "plug and go" but will need you to refine it to make it better suited to your students and their needs.
This site offers valuable information on the French AP exam including the format and how it is scored as well as some example questions to prepare for the exam.