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Are you looking for ways to help your students avoid the summer slide? Have no fear! These three tips will help! Teachers, share this blog post with parents or take the ideas and create your own newsletter to send home. Either way – parents will be extremely appreciative because I have had many parents tell me over the years that they don’t know…
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Hello! I am Jill from Coffman’s Creative Classroom. First of all, I want to thank Heather for the opportunity to share my ideas with you. I am excited to share what we do in our classroom to create an interactive and engaging poetry unit. April is the perfect time to teach about poetry because it is National Poetry Month. We are…
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Today I’m excited to have my real-life teaching friend Callie on the blog! She’s here to share her thoughts on giving meaningful feedback to students. You’ll learn about how she uses both “praise points” and “teaching points” to help her students grow and to build strong student relationships. I remember doing my student teaching in a second grade classroom and my cooperating…
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The number of students coming to us in elementary school who have autism, emotional disturbances, or have been exposed to drugs in utero continues to grow. These populations have an unbelievably difficult time with social skills and emotion regulation as they become school-age. One of the foundational necessities of these two skills is being able to identify emotions based on…
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Education is demanding. There is so much going on. Sometimes schools look at departmentalizing as an option for their elementary teachers. As someone who taught in such a position in two different districts and then was an administrator for a departmentalized school as well, I want to share some tips for handling the departmentalized classroom. 1. Determine What You’re Teaching This…
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