The more meaningful the activity, the more engage the students. Connections to their lives and their background of information helps. Allow students to control as much of their learning as possible. That doesn’t mean to make it easy. It means to make it meaning-filled so they use skills they have developed or are in the… Read More »
Over the past few years I’ve written lots of math games for Grades 1-6. It started when I taught math and wanted to provide kids with opportunities to work on various skills on their own or with a partner when they had free time or after they’d completed their assignments. Eventually they became part of… Read More »
That’s cursive not cursing, although some people are doing a bit of cursing about the demise of cursive writing. When I taught third grade, I enjoyed teaching cursive. Each day we spent about 20 minutes working on it. We worked from the most basic hand movements (i, l, e, t ) into more elaborate ones… Read More »
Teacher’s wear many hats every day: leader, group participant, and student organizer as well as volunteer coordinator and para educator guide. They communicate daily with students, parents, staff members and fellow teachers. They grade papers, help students become independent thinkers, chair committees, and take home whatever they can’t finish during the school day. Even a… Read More »