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Using Empathy to Teach Social-Emotional Skills Educators are required to wear many hats, from creating and implementing a full class course load, to facilitating competence with emerging technologies and teaching social-emotional skills. While facilitating competency in math, reading, and other subjects is certainly high on the list of teacher priorities, teaching social and emotional skills is also crucial to student success. This area may be less structured and defined than other class topics, but it’s still important for teachers to be tuned in to their students’ emotional health so they can find ways to incorporate social and emotional learning in the classroom. Research around social-emotional skills Studies show there is a strong correlation between social skills, emotional skills, and a child’s ability to learn.

Elementary Copyright Elementary Copyright First Grade Lesson : the building blocks of copyright Educational Objectives and Standards Embracing the Whole Child Four Suggestions In embracing a more whole-child, humanizing approach to teaching and learning, Salazar proposes specific ways educators can express care and engage students in a more humanizing pedagogy. Among her suggestions, I’d like to explore the following four, offering suggestions for each, as I have found them particularly useful to establishing a harmonious community of learners in the classroom. 1. Library Media / Elementary Citation Guide Elementary Citation Guidelines Students need to give credit for the resources they have used, even in elementary school. Here are some guidelines for elementary school students. There is a Citation Maker available on the NC WiseOwl website.

Page 16: Lesson Plan Design Page 16: Lesson Plan Design The daily lesson plan is the most detailed standards-based plan that a teacher will develop. It outlines the purpose and activities of what will be done on a specific day or across several days. Unit plans help to turn year-long plans into daily plans. Standards-based daily lesson plans are composed of objectives and activities that are based on the unit plans. LibraryShare / Library Use This is the place to post ideas about teaching students effective use of the library, including library manners, book care, sections of the library, Dewey, etc. After logging in, all you need to do is click the "edit page" button and you'll get a screen that looks a lot like a word processing program and allows you to easily add your text (or copy and paste it from another document). Add your ideas to our list, being sure to include: lesson title, recommended grade level, a description of the activity and any necessary resources. If you'd like to leave your name and email, people can contact you if they have questions, but listing your contact information is optional.

General Education and Special Education How can you build a strong and mutually beneficial relationship with special and general education colleagues using a collaborative teaching approach? Collaborative teaching is the wave of the future! In little time, you can develop the know-how to fully enjoy being a team. And you’ll be amazed at how much more you can accomplish for your students. My Library Lessons Here's a slideshow that compares and contrasts Folk Tales and Fairy Tales in a way that kids can understand. Just click the RIGHT ARROW BUTTON to advance through this slideshow and see this lesson. Note: This section is not being updated right now, if you would like to share lesson ideas or lesson plans, please email me at webmaster@clubtnt.org and I will be happy to correspond with you and make my current lessons available. Thanks! I have a new project, My LMC Web which is where I am currently posting resources to support library and info/tech literacy skills - thank!

Integrating Mindfulness in Your Classroom Curriculum Now more than ever, teaching mindfulness in the classroom is a necessity. Our children are stressed and anxious. Teachers and parents are stressed and anxious, too. Our lives are busy, and we often find our thoughts buzzing over the past or worrying about the future. We need mindfulness because it teaches us to live in the present moment, enjoying and experiencing what’s in front of us. Educators know that children learn best when they are comfortable, safe, and relaxed.

The Reading Room Education World wants to help you turn your students into the best readers possible. To do that, we have compiled the "Reading Room" a huge list of articles and activities designed to help you teach reading. We start with research-based concepts, ready-to-use tools, and extensions for learning provided by our own "Reading Coach." After that, we have all sorts of useful tools including scripts for reading aloud in the classroom along with other resources.

7 Practical Tips to Achieve a Positive Mindset The “power of positive thinking” is a popular concept, and sometimes it can feel a little cliché. But the physical and mental benefits of positive thinking have been demonstrated by multiple scientific studies. A positive mindset can give you more confidence, improve your mood, and even reduce the likelihood of developing conditions such as hypertension, depression and other stress-related disorders. All this sounds great, but what does the “power of positive thinking” really mean? You can define positive thinking as positive imagery, positive self-talk or general optimism, but these are all still general, ambiguous concepts. If you want to be effective in thinking and being more positive, you’ll need concrete examples to help you through the process.

Highly Successful Parent Teacher Communication One of the most beneficial aspects of teaching is building positive relationships with parents. Effective parent-teacher communication is essential for a teacher to be successful. A good relationship between parents and a teacher is invaluable towards maximizing the time that the teacher has with that student. A student who knows that the teacher communicates on a regular basis with their parents and who knows that their parents trust the teacher will likely put more effort into school. Likewise, a student who knows that the teacher rarely or never communicates with their parents and/or their parents do not trust the teacher will often pit the two against each other.

Moodle Here are twenty tools that you can use to help you plan and teach your class. Some tools are good for organizing your class and others are good for organizing online projects. Some of the tools are good little teaching aides. The list is in no particular order, and many of them could be used by students too if they were technologically literate. 1 – Animoto