Helping Teachers Inspire Learners
There has been a lot of talk and buzz lately about work-life balance in the teaching world. Teaching is a demanding profession and any sort of balance that one can achieve would be wonderful, don’t you think? The point in trying to balance your work and personal life is so that you don’t load up on your stress during your…
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Flexible seating has been trending for a couple of years now in education. While I have had flexible seating options in my classroom for over 20 years, I have never written about it until now. I wanted to wait for a while and let this “new” trend settle for a bit before diving in. Just what IS flexible seating? Probably the…
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Summer learning. Two words that don’t seem to go together. Most students and teachers are happy to be able to have some down time. School is a very busy place and mental fatigue is a real thing, don’t you think? It’s important for kids to go off for summer break and relax, play, and stay up a bit later. But…
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It occurred to me today that I have written about Genius Hour before in quite a bit of detail as I was learning and going through the process but I really hadn’t summed up my learning overall. Not to mention, thoughts and ideas change over time as teaching and pedagogy changes as well. You can see some of the other…
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I love to teach writing – that’s no surprise. As I reflected on the WHY, I have realized that it is bigger than just teaching the skills. It’s more about allowing students to construct their own meaning in the writing they do by building a writing mindset. When you do that, students are more engaged. Too often, writing is seen…
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The development of early number sense is critical for children to be able to understand math in later years. There are important developmental skills that all students needs in order to conceptually understand math. If there are gaps in these skills, we need to use intervention in order to fill the gaps so that the child can move forward in…
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Book units are a wonderful tool to introduce children's literature to your class as well as teach students important life lessons. Using quality children's literature in your literacy lessons help bring the joy of reading to your students. Not only that, using book units help to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills!
Learn more about book units here ==>
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Check out this new blog post to read about 5 tips when teaching 2nd grade opinion writing using digital tools.
Hands up if you teach 2nd grade? 🖐
thewritestuffteaching.com/2nd-grade-digital-opinion-writing/
