Tag: Elementary School

Don't Teach Kids How To Read, Teach Them Why by Terry Heick Preface: I'm writing under the assumption that the 'child' in question has access to some form of mobile ...

50 Things You Can Say To Encourage A Child by TeachThought Staff There are many ways to encourage a child, but for students of any age, honest, authentic, and persistent ...

25 Tricks To Improve A Boring Lesson contributed by Lisa Chesser Over the years, I’ve noticed how one question can change the dynamics of any situation. Everything might be moving along quite ...

15 Apps & Websites For Teaching Math Online contributed by Jennifer Smith With the increasing popularity of STEM-focused learning more and more students are taking on more and more challenging ...

7 Mistakes That Quality Assessments Avoid contributed by Daniel R. Venables, Founding Director of the Center for Authentic PLCs This post has been updated with additional resources and republished It’s that ...

If you want to teach kids, by all means teach them. We can' do much without knowledge. But if you really want to see their genius, watch them play.

A Video Game-Themed Student Interest Inventory For Elementary Students by TeachThought Staff Curricula: You can download a ready-for-student version of this student interest inventory for free on the TeachThought TpT ...

A Poem That's Been Torn In Half? New Children's Book Explores Value Of Mistakes by TeachThought Staff This post is sponsored by Workman Publishing Title: 'My Book Of Beautiful Oops!' ...

Unique Literacy Apps Created For War-Affected Syrian Children by TeachThought Staff From a press release Oslo/Washington, DC (March 20, 2017) – A Norway-led coalition today announced two winners of the ...

  New Bilingual Sesame Street and Autism Materials Created to Increase Acceptance and Provide More Tools for Families Impacted by Autism From a press release New York, NY—(March 20, 2017) ...

  Scholastic Offers Platform For Teacher-Created Curricula by TeachThought Staff  This post is sponsored by Scholastic. Back in 2013, the term teacherpreneur really started to gain traction. In early 2014, ...

30 Of The Best Books To Teach Children Empathy by TeachThought Staff Often confused with sympathy and compassion, empathy is, put simply, the ability to feel what another person is ...

How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching by Terry Heick Ed note: this post has been updated from a fall 2015 post A little bit of technology doesn't change ...

Why You Shouldn't Use Physical Education As Punishment by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you ...

Instead Of A Book Report, My Students 'Wrote' A Video by Kim Blomqvist, Secondary Teacher Assigning book reports was slowly creeping up on me as the school year progressed. My former colleagues ...

How You Can Support The New Kid In Your Class by Sara Boehm “It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.” –Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, ...

Cheap Children's Books: 26 Books For $1 Each by TeachThought Staff If you're an Elementary school teacher, today's POTD is for you. Amazon is running a nice promotion: $1 children's books--everything from ...

40 Of The Best Elementary Learning Apps For Elementary Students Looks like this mobile learning thing might actually take off, eh? Just as we recently looked specifically at some of the ...