Motivating a reluctant student to complete schoolwork is not easy. In a …
Motivating a reluctant student to complete schoolwork is not easy. In a typical classroom, students can choose from a number of sources of potential reinforcement (Billington & DiTommaso, 2003)--and academic tasks often take a back seat to competing behaviors such as talking with peers. One way that teachers can increase the attractiveness of schoolwork is by structuring lessons or assignments around topics or activities of high interest to the student (Miller et al., 2003).In fact, with planning, the teacher can set up a 'trap' that uses motivating elements to capture a student's attention to complete academic tasks (Alber & Heward, 1996). Here is a 6-step blue-print for building an academic 'motivation trap' (adapted from Alber & Heward, 1996).
Starting off the year strong by building relationships and trust with parents …
Starting off the year strong by building relationships and trust with parents through an early welcome. This video was created by Jessica Wall and Pam Sawatzky for the 2021-22 Sun West iLearn sessions.A strategy guide for educators is also included.
Create healthier and happier employees and a stronger workplace health culture. Become …
Create healthier and happier employees and a stronger workplace health culture. Become an employer of choice – receive recognition from Alberta Health Services.
Tool Kits are available for: alcohol reduction, healthy eating, physical activity, quitting smoking & UV protection.
A combination of focused activities and creative, open-ended technology projects can help …
A combination of focused activities and creative, open-ended technology projects can help you take a new approach to building literacy with your secondary students. Use these articles, samples, and lessons to find new ideas and approaches that will work for your learners.
The Building Literacy in Secondary guide includes: - Articles - Reading, Literacy, and Digital Creativity - SPLAT...POW...WOW! Motivating Readers and Writers - More Than Just a Writing Prompt - Supporting 6+1 Trait Writing
Lesson Plans - Create a Video Poem - Design a Book Cover - Character Scrapbook - Not Your Average Portfolio - MyBook (Fakebook) Page - Digital Book Trailers
These articles, lessons, and strategies engage students through creative technology to maximize student literacy skills.
Building meaningful relationships with our students is essential whether you teach in …
Building meaningful relationships with our students is essential whether you teach in a face to face environment or in an online environment. These relationships help to encourage students to feel valued and to keep motivated to learn. One of the best parts of being a teacher, is having the chance to get to know our students! A team of teachers from the Distance Learning Centre will share some of the successful ways they have built relationships with their students online.The topics will include:
-Tips for hosting online tutorials -Creative ways to showcase student projects/learning -Book Clubs for multiple age groups -Using the Circle of Courage with students -Read Alouds from teachers and guest readers -Tips from a student support perspective - Newsletters
Floor construction is the most serious activity in the building process serving …
Floor construction is the most serious activity in the building process serving as the main link between sub- structure and super-structure. Apart from the foundation, the floor of the building serves as the most immediate support for super-structure. The loads of the walls and columns and imposed loads are first transmitted to the floor before reaching the foundation concrete. The inability of a floor to support the above loads and onward transmission will indicate the ineffective nature of the whole building. To ensure that floors are effectively constructed and serve the desired purpose, the knowledge of appropriate principles and practice is very necessary. Your knowledge of these principles and their application will enable you to understand and undertake floor construction competently.
[INFOGRAPHIC] DO SOMETHING ABOUT BULLYING Whether physical, emotional, cyber or social, our …
[INFOGRAPHIC] DO SOMETHING ABOUT BULLYING
Whether physical, emotional, cyber or social, our students are exposed to bullying on a a routine basis. By knowing how to recognize the signs, we can ensure we're ready to help when needed.
I created this rubric for Grade 3 health the focus was on …
I created this rubric for Grade 3 health the focus was on bullying. I believe that this assessment reflects 21st century learning because I was able to incorporate technology in a purposeful way for students to share their knowledge. This assessment allows student to share their understanding of the important topic of bullying through an interactive app called sock puppets. This app provides student the opportunity to create a situation they have experienced or seen bullying representing it through sock puppets. In order to expand on 21st century learning next time I would give the students options on different apps they can use to share their understanding of bullying using technology.
This lesson integrates language arts, music, and math. The children will listen …
This lesson integrates language arts, music, and math. The children will listen to the story "Count on Bunnies". They will be given the opportunity to act out the story and solve bunny equations. After listening to the song "Five Young Rabbits," the children will take turns being rabbits and pantomiming the actions as the class sings. The children will combine the rabbits at the end of each verse to see how many rabbits have been added. Then they will work in pairs to create their own rabbit equations.
This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were designed with and for …
This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan. It follows a unique format that both explains what to do and demonstrates how to do it.
This is a whole language lesson for Speech Language Pathologists that incorporates …
This is a whole language lesson for Speech Language Pathologists that incorporates food vocabulary, basic concepts of matching, color, and number, as well as the pragmatic skill of turn taking for language-delayed kindergarten students.
Criteria for Historical Thinking Very well To some extent To a limited …
Criteria for Historical Thinking Very well To some extent To a limited degree Not at all Not applicable Student begins analyzing a primary source by asking basic sourcing questions, for example: – Who was the author/creator? – When was the source produced? – Who is the audience?
Child-Led, Hands-On, Active Learning for Kids including: Math Reading Writing Sports and …
Child-Led, Hands-On, Active Learning for Kids including: Math Reading Writing Sports and Recreation Colors Multilingual Teaching Tips (lots of Chinese resources)
"With its reliable news in 10-minute video segments, CNN 10 allows teachers …
"With its reliable news in 10-minute video segments, CNN 10 allows teachers to keep students abreast of current events without overwhelming them with extra information or commentary. CNN 10 can be used as a starting point for a variety of activities. For instance, post a discussion question of the day related to a news topic and ask students to talk in small groups about how the story affects them. Ask students to choose a story of interest and probe into it for more depth. Flip the classroom by having students watch selected videos at home, and facilitate related projects in class. Promote collaboration and creativity by having students create their own news broadcasts related to curricular goals. Finally, promote media literacy by having students compare CNN's coverage with other media coverage of the same stories.
CNN 10 offers limited supports for classroom use: broadcast transcripts and downloadable weekly quiz questions, all targeted to the topics. But students can go to the top of the screen to get to more adult articles and topics, so beware. Still, that shouldn't deter kids who want to use the site independently or parents who want to help their kids learn what's going on in the world; the materials are user-friendly enough for everyone." (Common Sense Media)
In this lesson, students go further into the collection and interpretation of …
In this lesson, students go further into the collection and interpretation of data, including cleaning and visualizing data. Students first look at the how presenting data in different ways can help people to understand it better, and they then create visualizations of their own data. Using a the results of a preferred pizza topping survey, students must decide what to do with data that does not easily fit into the visualization scheme that they have chosen. Finally, students look at which parts of this process can be automated by a computer and which need a human to make decisions.
In this lesson students get practice making decisions with data based on …
In this lesson students get practice making decisions with data based on some problems designed to be familiar to middle school students. Students work in groups discussing how they would use the data presented to make a decision before the class discusses their final choices. Not all questions have right answers and in some cases students can and should decide that they should collect more data. The lesson concludes with a discussion of how different people could draw different conclusions from the same data, or how collecting different data might have affected the decisions they made.
Students begin the lesson by looking at a cake preference survey that …
Students begin the lesson by looking at a cake preference survey that allows respondents to specify both a cake and an icing flavor. They discuss how knowing the relationship between cake and icing preference helps them better decide which combination to recommend. They are then introduced to cross tabulation, which allows them to graph relationships to different preferences. They use this technique to find relationships in a preference survey, then brainstorm the different types of problems that this process could help solve.
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