Depending on the calendar year, the time from Thanksgiving and Christmas Day can be between 27 and 33 days. There are still two weeks between now and the holiday break. As a teacher, you cannot afford to lose these days to distractions. How then do you keep students focused during the most wonderful, and unproductive, time of the year? [...]
Welcome to the month of December teachers! Chilly mornings and festive greetings can be found wherever you go this month. Last week’s Thanksgiving feast is now in the record books and with it we’re now officially in the Season of Giving. Now is a great time to create activities that can inspire your students to volunteer this holiday season and do some good in their communities.
To help reinforce this Season of Giving, December 5th was International Volunteer’s Day. Volunteering to help others kindles happiness (something the world can always use a bit more of.) Here are some jumping off points to get your students engaged with volunteering in their schools: [...]
Successful instruction demands the invested and active participation of both students and teachers. One of our primary goals as teachers is to avoid classrooms where students feel bored, dispassionate and effectively disengaged. A lack of student engagement is easy to see because we’ve all experienced it before. Doodling in notebooks, passing notes (or now texts) and the tried and true disengaging method of aimlessly staring out windows. As fellow educators could tell you, nothing is more deflating than a class of disinterested students. [...]
[wr_row][wr_column]Winter has come! With the warm weather officially behind us, it’s time look forward to the winter months and begin planning out lessons for the snowy, frigid days ahead. Below are ten unique lesson plans for students of all grades K thru 12. Covering a variety of topics, from science to social studies, this featured list will get any class moving once they get in from the cold! [...]
Thanksgiving marks the start of the holiday season! Getting to sit down with relatives for the biggest meal of the year (and having a four-day weekend) has students excited for the fourth Thursday in November. The classroom should stay exciting, too! [...]
Special education teachers and regular education teachers alike require a number of student data to inform instructional decisions. Whether formative assessment, progress monitoring, or summative assessment, data is key to making effective instructional decisions. However, this task becomes increasingly difficult as class sizes increase and student needs vary. Google offers a variety of apps to [...]
Debra Vaughn started using Planbook Plus in it’s Beta stage in the Fall of 2015. She has become a Power User since then and has been inputting plans for a 5 year Robotics course she is developing for her district. We wanted to share her experience of planning ahead with Planbook Plus with you. I’ve been [...]
Submit SLOs, draft your annual goal, choose your evaluation cycle, analyze standardized test data, write/read IEPs, individualize instruction, lesson plan… The laundry list above should sound familiar to any teacher. The only trouble is, the list does not seem to end! How do teachers keep up with all directives while also reaching the students? [...]
With Election Day only a week away, we have gathered some online resources that you can incorporate into your lesson plans. Teacher Vision – Elections This collection for resources from Teacher Vision contains a collection of activities, printables and lessons on the electoral process. Delve into the election requirements, take a look at historical references [...]
Who doesn’t like talking about high stakes testing? While educators hope to see it disappear, we all face high stakes testing. Data analysis is driving instruction and teachers are tasked with helping all students improve on the next wave of testing. Additionally, teachers are asked to insure student success by embedding high stakes test [...]
