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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

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During last year’s widespread remote schooling, teachers found greater flexibility—no commute, no hallway duty—and liked it, even if they didn’t like teaching virtually. At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation. But more creative approaches may be necessary. So let’s imagine.

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How Music Technology Helped My Students Tap Into Their Creativity

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Jade’s face peered out at me through the Zoom window, one of 25 faces in an elementary music class that recently went fully remote during the pandemic. But what I noticed early in my teaching career is that when kids are excited about telling a story, they figure out a way. They draw comic books. They write phonetically.

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14 Holiday Websites and 5 Projects

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Let me know how these go: Holiday Newsletter A Holiday Card in KidPix A Holiday Calendar in MS Publisher for Elementary School Whered Christmas Come From T he Power of SymbolsWhat does the word Turkey mean? Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Need a few websites to fill in free minutes?

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How to Differentiate Instruction in Elementary Math

Cool Cat Teacher

Understandably, kindergarten and elementary teachers need to reach every student where they are on their learning journey, but it isn't always easy. Episode 793 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Differentiate Math Instruction in the Elementary Classroom Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson. eSpark is free forever for teachers.

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5 Ways to Teach Gratitude in your Classroom #creativitymatters

Cool Cat Teacher

Lesson Plans that Teach Gratitude From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Whatever your activities for November and Thanksgiving, I’ve got some ideas to inspire gratitude in your classroom. Teach about gratitude and encourage students to say thank you with activities and projects this November.

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3 Creative Tech Tools to Teach Writing

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Sure, “share knowledge” works better with appropriate transition words and comma placement, but those sorts of skills better fit ‘language’ than ‘writing’ Writing is about the thoughtfulness and creativity required to communicate based on audience, task and purpose. Elementary-High School.

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Offering Electives to Elementary Students

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It is not clear to me why elementary students are rarely offered elective courses. I never understood why elementary students aren’t shown the bigger picture of a lesson, unit, or course. I have the privilege of teaching gifted elementary students at a few Title 1 schools.