Helping Teachers Inspire Learners
Teacher stress. Is it any different than any other kind of stress? Well, yes, and no. Stress is stress and many people have very stressful jobs. So what makes teacher stress unique? For me, it comes down mostly to decision fatigue. Decision fatigue is a real thing!!! Do you realize just how many decisions you make in a day as…
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It’s been a while since I wrote about my Interactive Mindful Notebooks and how teaching mindfulness in your classroom as part of your social and emotional teaching can dramatically improve children’s happiness and help them to learn. A wonderful side effect of all that is that classroom management issues are greatly reduced. I’ve been thinking long and hard about how…
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Teach smarter not harder. That’s what they say, right? What exactly does that mean? To me, it’s the act of not piling on assignments and worksheets that later you have to mark and it doesn’t move learning forward anyways! I think that “teach smarter not harder” is the smooth integration of subjects that relate and that help students build strong…
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It’s been a while since I first introduced the way I teach mindfulness to children in the classroom. Because people were asking me and were just unsure where to start, I created my Interactive Mindful Notebook to help others teach mindfulness too. Since that time, I have received many emails about the set and such wonderful feedback about how teachers are…
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Project based learning can have a real impact in your classroom. Some may think it’s only for older students but my 2nd grade students loved it! I was thinking long and hard about some of the best real life learning experiences I’ve seen over the years and it’s always been the ones where kids have had choice. Sometimes kids know…
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Real life learning in today’s classroom is important. Learning has to be relevant. In order to make learning relevant, students need to be part of the process and be given voice and choice in their daily learning activities. This is where project based learning comes in. We want kids to learn to read, write, be able to do math, learn…
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