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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Morale can best be defined as the confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline of a person or group at a particular time. Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2008), a study involving 735 workers was conducted to examine autonomy's impact on overall morale. However, this is easier said than done. & Fouquereau, E.

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2021-22 Student Book Budget Team Begins!

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Our makerspace collaboration with UGA is on hold, but that gives us a new opportunity to begin our student book budget project early. The student book budget team is a group of 3rd-5th graders who use our book fair profits to purchase new books for the library. For the most part, they did.

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Teaching and reading literature in the digital age

Neo LMS

I’m not convinced of the causal direction in these papers — surely people who have time to read, or have a wide access to a variety of books, or who come from families who value reading — are also, sociologically speaking, more likely to have income levels and environmental circumstances that tend to make them comparatively happy?

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Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer

Ask a Tech Teacher

My Twitter friends gave me great suggestions, but first: A comment on the selections : I did get more suggestions than I could possibly list so I avoided books that involved politics or hot-button subjects that teachers are divided on and focused on positive and uplifting reading. This book is free online. teacher training programs.

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18 Effective Classroom Motivation Strategies

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Classroom Motivation Strategies Drawing upon the insightful work of Guilloteaux & Dörnyei (2008), specifically from pages 63-64, this section delves into a variety of motivational strategies, enriched with my own examples and explanations to illustrate their practical application in educational settings. ” 18. link] Guilloteaux, M.

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Ways to Teach Communication Skills in the Classroom

Waterford

In particular, reading books aloud can teach students intonation and expression as well as fluent speech, according to Scholastic staff writer Bekki Lidner.[8] 8] Encourage families to read aloud both picture and chapter books at home, too. This can be done in pairs, small groups, or with the whole classroom.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries.

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