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Early Finishers Activities to Engage Students
Early finisher activities are a great way to encourage students to practice writing skills, research skills, puzzle skills, critical thinking, and so much more! These activities encourage students to be productive with their free time and keep students engaged so that you’re not dealing with classroom management issues while the rest of the class is finishing up.
When students finish early, they need an early finisher activity like task cards or literacy centers to complete independently. There are so many options for independent activities.
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Strategies in Classroom Management
Strategies in classroom management shouldn’t revolve around classroom rules, but a positive classroom environment that supports disruptive and struggling students as well as the entire class.
Enforcing classroom expectations with challenging students is a start, but positive behavior starts with classroom culture and teacher-student relationships. This shift can make all the difference.
Elementary Classroom Mission Statement
Having a classroom mission statement helps with classroom management and facilitates a positive classroom community, but what goes into a classroom mission statement? There are a few steps to making a mission statement that works well in an elementary classroom.
Ways to Hook Students into a Lesson: 21 Examples
Learn about 21 engaging lesson hooks to make your lesson unforgettable!
A lesson hook in elementary school is an engaging and interactive activity, question, or prompt that is used at the very beginning of a lesson to capture students' attention and spark interest in the topic. It is a tool that many teachers use to begin a lesson in an engaging way and get kids invested in the learning process by creating a sense of excitement and curiosity about the topic.
11 Strategies to Engage with Students
Our students get bored when we lecture them about a topic. Find 11 different ways to engage your students in their learning. Use these strategies to make learning interesting again and get your students involved in the process. Some of the examples of the strategies talked about in this article are active learning, collaborative learning, game-based learning, and lesson hooks.
Planned Ignoring: An Intervention Strategy for Inappropriate Behavior
Planned ignoring is a great strategy to use with students who exhibit attention-seeking behavior, especially temper tantrums or similar problem behavior.
If a student is misbehaving to get your attention and they’re safe, planned ignoring can be the best way to respond to that child.
This attention-seeking behavior is designed to get attention, even negative attention will do. The best way to end this behavior completely might be to ignore it.
I’ve had great success with planned ignoring with temper tantrums in a first-grade class, but it can be used with tattling and goofing off too, depending on the situation.
The 2 Things I Did to Turn My Impossible Class Around
I had an impossible class my second year as a preschool teacher. I was drowning, barely holding my head above water. During this time, I learned 2 tricks that saved me and helped me turn my classroom around.