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 […]
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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 Next Buzzwords You Need to Know Now
Education is a business of buzzwords. It’s the only way to boil down complicated theories, pedagogies, and trends into concepts that can be conversed about without a PowerPoint. To make matters worse, the educational sands are always shifting, taking the concepts along with them. Here are the education reform topics that are on the horizon […]
The Ideal Classroom for Collaboration
Picture your favorite classroom from when you were in school. Did it help you work with other people or keep to yourself? Was the teacher able to work with everyone individually or stay up at the front of the room lecturing? Most importantly, was the work you accomplished in this room engaging or boring? […]
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 […]
Help Your Students Overcome Challenges to Build Mental and Physical Strength
A child’s mental and physical strength must come from within. No matter how much you teach a child problem-solving skills, critical-thinking skills, or even something innocuous like how to throw a football, they won’t be able to truly succeed until they believe they can. Confidence isn’t something you can adequately teach with a chalkboard […]
10 Inspiring Field Trip Ideas for Art Students
Most museums feature extraordinary exhibits, stunning sculptures, and amazing art, perfect for inspiring the creativity of your students and whetting their artistic appetites. But there’s inspiration to be found all around! Shake things up with our ideas for field trips designed to help students see everyday objects—in everyday places—in a new light. Check out […]
Block Sounds for More Focus
It’s test-taking time and you’ve prepared your students to the best of your abilities. Shouldn’t your equipment help too? Study Better, Not Harder with Noise Cancelling Headphones It’s critical for AP language students to clearly hear all of the nuances they’re being tested on. That’s where the Active Noise Cancelling Headphone comes into the […]
Scheduling Teachers and Classes – Against the Status Quo
For a profession in which every day is different, teachers can be creatures of habit. Some veterans have been teaching the same preps for a decade or more. And for people who like their schools running like a machine, many administrators don’t see a need to upset the apple cart. Shaking things up is […]
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 […]
Headset For Storytelling in Kindergarten
Califone will invite teachers to share how they are using classroom technology with their students. This time we would like to welcome guest blogger, Matt Gomez. I have written about headphones we use in my class before and everything I posted there is still true. The Califone headphones have been exactly what I needed […]