How To Build Resilience: Failing Safe Success is often measured by how well we do in particular tasks, but is rarely measured by how many times we try things. Have you ever taught students who don’t want to try particular tasks because they didn't want to fail? I certainly have and you know, it’s often … Continue reading How To Build Resilience: Failing Safe
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How to Tech Like A Legend
How to Tech Like a Legend - We love learning like this! How often do you hear this from your kids? This was the exact response we received when we asked about the new way we approached covering the 'basic' learning this term, but why the change?
15 Strategies to help avoid procrastination (and get your marking done!)
15 Strategies to help avoid procrastination (and get your marking done!) Do you remember back in the day, in your first year of teaching, when you thought that one of the most exciting things to do (in teaching of course!) was to mark exams? I was so eager to get them marked that they were … Continue reading 15 Strategies to help avoid procrastination (and get your marking done!)
10 Qualities of Great Teachers
What makes a great teacher could easily be a list of characteristics that look similar to what makes a good person - a sense of humour, the ability to feel like you're actually being listened to, flexibility, and consistency of personality and approach. With this in mind, this is a question that has driven educational researchers and the concepts lie at the core of ...
Music in the classroom
Students often talk & disrupt just to break the silence in the room. An awesome teaching strategy is to acknowledge the silence so YOU take charge. Play background music & explicitly tell the kids that it's on to take out the silence & help them work. This is not rocket science - if you want them to chill out, play chilled out music, alternatively, if you want them active & in group work, play some faster tempo music. As with anything, let them know that if ...
How to help active kids remain engaged and foster curiosity
Writing notes is BORING while sitting in one place. Test out this teaching strategy - Print out the notes, number the points & stick them around the room. Put them in interesting places to get them to find them all (like on the ceiling!) - make learning a treasure hunt! Who doesn't like treasure hunts?! This works a treat for students who find it hard to sit still, dance classes love this activity.
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