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30 Effective Classroom Attention Getters with Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Classrooms, the breeding grounds for future thinkers and innovators, can sometimes become arenas of boredom and disengagement. 2010) linked boredom to attentional problems in class, while Maroldo (1986) noted its association with lower GPAs and a decreased motivation to learn. 2010; Ziv, 1988). 2010; Ziv, 1988).

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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. Welcoming parents to school events and into their child’s education is essential, but parent empowerment goes further to create strong parent-teacher partnerships.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Writing for Districtadministration.com , Morris notes that successful family engagement begins by centering on families and their needs, just like teachers center children in their classrooms. Including families in the planning of these events can help them be invested in the classroom.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom

Waterford

Then, discover tactics for spotting and preventing toxic stress in your classroom. More students in your classroom may be suffering from toxic stress than you know. 14] Regardless of the grade you teach, it’s likely that at least one student in your classroom deals with chronic stress. What Is Toxic Stress, Anyway?

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Trauma-informed teaching strategies can benefit all students

eSchool News

According to the National Child Trauma Stress Network , these experiences can spark strong emotions and physical reactions that can persist long after an initial trauma event. Traumatic events can cause a variety of physical and emotional symptoms and can impact children at home and at school.

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Technology for the purpose of WHAT?

Dangerously Irrelevant

Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! Why we don’t recommend using the 4 Shifts Protocol as a classroom observation tool. As always, please stay in touch as I can be of support to your instructional redesign, technology integration, and leadership/innovation needs. Happy reading! Related Posts.

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Building Connections Between Home and School through Family-Teacher Partnerships

Waterford

You may already be familiar with family engagement , or listening to and working with families in the classroom. Welcoming families to school events and into their child’s education is important, but strong family-teacher partnerships go one step further. Child Development , 2010, 81(3), pp. What are Family-Teacher Partnerships?

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