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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

Classroom management can be a challenge. In this post, I’ll share twenty-two of my top tips and ideas that have helped me have an awesome classroom. Classroom Management Tip #1: Build a Partnership With Your Students It’s true that you must relate before you can educate. I want them to join Google classroom.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally.

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Making MAKEing More Inclusive

User Generated Education

The maker movement and maker education, in my perspective, are such great initiatives – really in line with what student-centric education should be in this era of formal and informal learning. 9 Maker Projects for Beginner Maker Ed Teachers ). Is the Maker Movement About Hacking Society—Or Just Hardware? ).

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

In deciding what resources you need based on the learners you have, you may first need to determine how your learners learn best, what projects you plan to do, how you can set up a makerspace in your classroom, and much more. Additional Resources referenced from Jackie’s blog: Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners.

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Teaching isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Way More Complex

The CoolCatTeacher

Doug, as we finish up, could you give us a 30-second pep talk about personalizing learning for the students in our classroom today? You want to make sure that your formative assessments are based on where the student is at, not some kind of standard that every student in your classroom has to jump through.

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How to Use Metaverse: Awesome Augmented Reality and New Features

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Metaverse is a powerful augmented reality (AR) programming app for classrooms. Metaverse has come a long way and is specifically focused on becoming an amazing AR app for classrooms with the new Collections feature. This blog post is sponsored by Metaverse.

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The Philosophy Behind Maker Success

A Principal's Reflections

A national focus on standardized testing and accountability has only made the experience worse for kids who only crave relevance, meaning, and value out of the hours of time spent in classrooms each school year. In many cases elementary schools have even taken fun out of school for kids by cutting recess.

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