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Is Your Classroom Layout Hindering Student Engagement? Here’s a Solution.

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Alison Jalufka Classroom layout can help or hinder student management and engagement in all sorts of ways, explains Alison Jalufka, a former first-grade teacher who is now a learning coach in Texas’ Liberty Hill ISD. Today Liberty Hill has Vivi installed throughout its three elementary schools. Shake Up Learning. Vivi Features.

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Time Pressure, Mistakes, and Hand Raising

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In elementary school, this is how I felt about math. We didn’t have time for the lively, thoughtful discussion that’s necessary to developing higher logic thinking (not to mention where the real fun and ‘secret’ learning happens). Pencils down, time’s up. Flashcards out — and ready, set, go! I was always being timed.

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Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps

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Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning. ‘If it doesn’t feel different than it did a year ago, that’s alarming. APPS TO ACQUIRE INFORMATION.

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