Teaching Children Not to Be Rude!
…be rude, including Cell Phoney, My Mouth is a Volcano, Teamwork Isn’t My Thing and I Don’t Like to Share, and I Want to Do it My Way! She enjoys…
…be rude, including Cell Phoney, My Mouth is a Volcano, Teamwork Isn’t My Thing and I Don’t Like to Share, and I Want to Do it My Way! She enjoys…
…will learn really quickly that one million is a really hard number to work with in this problem and will change to a smaller number. While the students were working,…
…the benefits of cooperative learning. However, it’s not cooperative learning that’s the problem – it’s poor implementation that turns teamwork into “group work.” If you are still skeptical, I invite…
…them do this activity). This is really fun, since the kids often have to work together to measure the objects (since the lines on the playground are often larger than…
…they work insane numbers of hours each week, and they never get everything done! The “normal” 40 hour work week sounds like an impossible dream to a teacher who’s working…
You know what QR codes are … those black and white patterned squares you scan with your smartphone to be taken to a webpage with more information about, well, anything!…
…works great at Writer’s Workshop when I am having students learn about Word Choice and improving their colorful adjectives and vivid verbs – bonus!) Once students got the hang of…
…Learning. It’s the best resource around for cooperative learning, and it clearly explains dozens of structures! Sample Structure: Numbered Heads Together Number students off from 1 to 4 within their…
…timers are fun to use with games, but can also be potentially distracting to students who are working. Smartphone Timers – Many teachers have told me that they use the built-in…
…keeping the numbers the same but placing the parentheses around different pairs of numbers like this: (5 + 3) x 2 = ? and 5 + (3 x 2) =…
…problem involves underlining the key words “each” and “in all” and circling the numbers 10 and 2. The key words tell students that they need to multiply the numbers to…
…effective way I’ve found to elevate group work. What you do is quite simple. You set up all your group work routines and get to know your students. You make…
