Instead Of A Book Report, My Students ‘Wrote’ A Video
My students were overjoyed when I shared this new tool that enabled them to work more interactively with their book reports.
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How You Can Support The New Kid In Your Class
Navigating new hallways, making friends, & finding ‘their place’ is challenging for ‘the new kid.’ Here are some ways to support them.
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Cheap Children’s Books: 26 Books For Under $10 (Each)
If you’re an elementary school teacher, you know the challenges of funding a classroom. With many content areas, it can get expensive fast.
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5 Tips For Integrating Project-Based Learning In Any Content Area
Provide an avenue for students to visualize their idea as a solution to a real-world problem. Models can provide students a tangible goal to work toward.
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3 Fun Examples Of Technology-Based Assessement
These examples of technology-based assessment have engaging features that allow students to practice skills in and out of classroom.
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15 Of The Best Apps For Improved Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is a matter of decoding, reading speed, and thinking about the text, all of which can improve with tiered practice.
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20 iPad Apps To Teach Elementary Reading
With these 20 apps for elementary reading, children can learn how to write letters, improve phonics fluency, and even write their own books.
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A Letter-Writing Project To Connect Students With Senior Citizens
Domtar’s letter-writing program, PaperPal, will help youth develop fine motor skills & spur seniors to practice cognitive exercise.
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5 Ways To Support Students With Sensory Processing Disorders
Sensory processing disorders are characterized by difficulties in processing a range of sensory information, such as touch, sound, and smell.
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Two Collaborative Learning Tools I Use To Motivate Students
The Collaborative Learning Tools I Use To Motivate Students by Derek von Waldner As many educators know, students often come into a classroom ranging below or above a certain grade level. Even the most experienced of teachers find this disparity challenging. Self-paced and differentiated learning can help strike a balance among student grade levels, but…
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How I Use Photo Story In My Elementary Classroom
Knowing that I had to incorporate the iPads into my classroom slowly, I decided to develop one unit of the writing process digitally using Photo Story.
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4 Tips For Smarter Collaboration With Resource Teachers
Collaboration is not pointless. Simplification of the steps & appropriate curriculum re-arrangement can only be done though collaboration.
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How I Use Seesaw To Create A Learning Journal in My Classroom
I use Seesaw as a way to document exemplar student work and record evidence of the key academic skills they’re working towards.
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Punk Rock Preschool: Our Classroom’s Venture into Entrepreneurship
Punk Rock Preschool is a testament to the amazing capacity of young children. When we make learning relevant & fun, passions are developed.
