8 Strategies to Motivate Kids to Love Problem Solving
…their work with pictures, symbols, or words, but don’t require them to write complete sentence explanations for every problem they solve. After giving students time to solve a problem, reveal…
…their work with pictures, symbols, or words, but don’t require them to write complete sentence explanations for every problem they solve. After giving students time to solve a problem, reveal…
How often do we take time to tell others that we appreciate them? We might let our family members know we care, but do we provide time for students to…
…to give out a punishment for small issues, but I do need to address them. Every time. 3. Not requiring individual responsibility. Just telling the entire class to be quiet…
…a copy of the letter on Monday morning, and they would turn in their responses (in letter format) by Thursday. At the beginning of the year, we spent time reviewing…
…teacher find time for such a thing? Who would program it, run it, teach students about it? Where would it go? Why would I want to have one?” These were…
…much time to savor the enjoyment of poetry. If you wait until the week before testing to teach poetry, you’ll be tempted to skip the poetry writing (no time for…
…keep coming back… I’ve done this dozens of times, and every single time the student that I’ve chosen is able to come to an understanding with the help of the…
…where you’re coming from. Upper elementary teachers are expected to cover an incredible amount of academic content, and there’s not much time left over for anything else. However, teaching older…
…I always excelled in math, but I’ll never forget the horrible experience I had with college calculus. I’ll save that story for another time, but let me just say that…
…the Chinese New Year. I later learned that people in other countries also celebrate the New Year at this time, and that a more inclusive term is the Lunar New…
…a few minutes of time for this each day over several days because this step does take time. Collect the completed Classroom Award Nomination Forms and look through them to…
…The Pay it Forward Day website explains that it’s a time to remind ourselves of the power of giving and how the process of paying it forward can make the…
