Using Facebook in the Classroom
No one can doubt the influence that Facebook has on students today. Research projects show that bridging the gap between work and fun can lead to increased productivity. Blending the two worlds of the students can, therefore, perhaps make school life a little more fun for them and enhance the otherwise dreaded learning […]
Behavior Intervention Strategies: Incentives
Another trick in behavior intervention strategies is using incentives to motivate the students. Following are some suggestions on how teachers can create additional incentives in the classroom and motivate struggling learners:
Reward student effort along with quality of completed work. One way to do this is to use frequent encouragement for good effort along […]
Formative Assessment Strategies for your Classroom
Formative assessment strategies are similar to standard-based learning strategies and can fulfill both areas of instructional and learning support as well as assessment. Some of the strategies are:
Preassess students.
(Every pretest should be simple and to the point. Give a test that tells you only what the student needs to know.)
Share learning goals with […]
Teaching Gifted Learners: Building Social Skills
A majority of gifted children struggle with socializing. Interacting with family, school, and peers present external elements that can factor into significant challenges for gifted students. Our responsibility as educators, therefore, includes teaching gifted learners and developing social skills in them.
As with all children, family dynamics are most critical to the healthy development […]
Dealing with Bullying in School: Rumors
When kids bring a rumor to a child, they want to see the child defend against the rumor. If a child, who is the subject of the rumor, defends himself, then they have automatically lost because it is the weaker position. Therefore dealing with bullying in school involves not giving the ‘tormentors’ what […]
Collaboration in the Classroom
Collaboration is the process of working together to create or achieve something. In the traditional classroom setting, students sit at individual desks and work in isolation. Then, collaboration in the classroom was considered “cheating.” However, now, this is changing. Most schools, jobs and work outside of school requires people to work with others […]
Strategies for ELL Students: Instructional Conversation
Over the years, a number of strategies for ELL students have been
developed. ELL or English Language Learners benefit from interactive
learning strategies. “Instructional Conversation” (IC) is one
such strategy.
IC is the hardest of The Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) standards to implement as it involves releasing control over the talk in […]
Safe Learning Environments: Preventing Child Abuse
Research has found that successful child abuse interventions must both reduce risk factors and promote protective factors to ensure well-being of the child.
Protective factors are conditions in families, schools and communities that, when present, increase the health and well-being of children and provide them with safe learning environments. They are attributes that serve […]
What are some class management strategies that can be used while dismissing students?
It is important to develop efficient class management strategies to deal with various aspects of the class, like dismissal of students.
Teachers need to develop a simple user-friendly system to dismiss students. The concept “ready group” or “ready student” is effective for most grades, especially middle school.
The concept of “ready” will need to be […]
Dealing with Anger in the Classroom: Labeling Emotions
One way to deal with anger in the classroom is by labeling students’ emotions.
To start, validate the student’s emotion by acknowledging it. When the teacher observes that a student seems angry or upset, the instructor labels the emotion that seems to be driving the student’s behavior.
Labeling emotions can be a helpful tactic in […]
