Color abounds in classrooms anyway, so why not use it to your advantage? Especially if you’re a color lover – but even if you’re not – there are so many ways to leverage the rainbow to make your life easier and cue the kids as to what happens where. Read on for five great […]
Search Results for: STEM
Media Multitasking and the Student Brain
We cannot solve our current problems by engaging in the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. — Albert Einstein Life in the twenty-first century is complex for all of us. For our students who are immersed in a 24-hour-a-day multimedia environment, balancing the dizzying number of areas vying for their […]
Early Childhood Classroom Prep: 10 Must-Have Supplies
Walk into your classroom on the first day of preschool week prepared for anything! These common sense items for your early childhood classroom will help you prep to avoid distractions and keep your focus on the teaching task at hand. 1. Measuring Tape When setting up your room or putting up decorations, it’s difficult to […]
Art Lesson Plan: Cross Contour Geologic Tiles
Incorporating art education to transition from STEM to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) continues to gain momentum. That’s why we bring you the Cross Contour Geologic Tiles art lesson plan! If adding one more activity into your jam-packed, STEM-based curriculum gives you instant anxiety, you can take a deep breath, because we’ve […]
The Signs You Need in Your Classroom
Children are process-oriented beings. They are also very forgetful. These two factors combine in a need to guide your students around the classroom in a foolproof manner. Signs that outline every possible task can make a big difference in clearly stating your expectations and hopefully stemming off-task behaviors. For all of these signs, use […]
Regroup, Reorganize, Recharge
Educators have less summer than everyone else in education- if they get a summer at all. That makes time management and prioritization imperative. You won’t be able to do everything you want, so what takes precedence? To paraphrase the old saying, there are three R’s to the educator’s summer: regroup, reorganize, and recharge. Here […]
4 Tips for Putting Together a School Event Calendar
One key preparation for an upcoming school year is laying out the school event calendar. This process may take many different forms and requires a lot of forethought, communication, and sometimes revision. You may be a “set it and forget it” teacher who sets things up once and leaves them alone, or perhaps you […]
Rise and SHINE! Morning Routines for Students with Sensory Challenges
We know the importance of keeping a sensory routine at school to help students with sensory processing issues stay focused, calm and hopefully meltdown free during the day. Yet a good sensory diet or “sensory lifestyle” begins at home so if you have a child who has trouble even rising, much less shining out […]
Best Practices in Informing Parents of Changing Policies and Programs
Things change. School boards come up with new policies all the time. Once-popular programs fall by the wayside or need updating. Many of these changes are out of your control. Even though you might not have come up with the changes, it falls to you to notify parents who might be affected or the […]
Hazelton Academy of Sciences – Case Study
From Playing Catch-Up to Leading the Way A Breakthrough STEM Academy and Its Adaptable Design Science, technology, engineering, and math have become focus areas at every level of American education. Our students simply lack the knowledge and opportunities in these fields that students in other countries enjoy. This affects a student’s marketability in an […]
The 21st Century School Library
It’s unfortunate, but a school’s library is just as likely to be looked at as a testing center as a repository of knowledge. It is, after all, where students are filed in throughout the year to take their high-stakes assessments. What’s interesting is that libraries in the outside world are enjoying increased importance and […]
Teacher Tools to Defeat Summer Learning Loss
The summer learning loss is real. Research shows that it can cause students to forget 22 percent or more of what they learned over the school year, making a teacher spend a month of review at the beginning of the next year just to get students caught back up. This might seem like the territory of […]