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What You Can Do to Bring Emotional Intelligence Lessons into the Classroom

Waterford

13] If you can teach your students how to recognize and regulate their emotions, they’ll be better prepared to focus and reach their potential both inside and outside the classroom. On a whole-class level, teaching your students to develop emotional intelligence can significantly improve your classroom environment.[3]

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Playlists vs. Choice Boards: What is the difference?

Catlin Tucker

Teachers will want to use pre-assessments, diagnostics, and/or assess prior knowledge to identify where each student is in relation to the content at the heart of the playlist. In addition to using data to design the playlist, it is essential to build mechanisms into the playlist to collect formative assessment data.

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18 Effective Classroom Motivation Strategies

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Its significance is particularly pronounced in the realm of classroom learning, where it’s often invoked to explain the successes and failures in learning processes. It takes an integrated and holistic approach that considers both intrinsic and extrinsic factors to enhance students motivation and drive their engagement (Dôrnyei, 2005).

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

You may already be familiar with parent involvement and engagement, or listening to and working with parents in the classroom. It means embracing the belief that all voices and perspectives are welcome in your classroom,[1] and intentionally providing space for those voices to be heard.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom. The concept of a 21st-century classroom has evolved significantly.

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95 Percent Group Unveils 95 Phonics Core Program for Grades 4 and 5

eSchool News

The new program extends the evidence-based classroom success of 95 Percent Group’s K-3 program, a Tier 1 solution for whole class and small group instruction, supporting explicit, structured literacy instruction. Research on reading instruction has been very clear for more than 20 years.

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Helpful Tips to Integrate Media Literacy in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As for the Ontario Association for Media Literacy (AML) (cited in Duncan, 2005) “Media literacy is concerned with developing an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques. Ask them to apply critical thinking questions to assess its credibility.

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