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Why You Shouldn’t Use Physical Education As Punishment

TeachThought

See also Dos and Don’ts Of Elementary School Classroom Management The Problem with Physical Punishment While some feel that running a few laps as punishment sounds reasonable, this can have an adverse effect on a child’s psyche that lasts for decades.

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More schools are adding pre-K classrooms. But do principals know how to support them?

The Hechinger Report

In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. In Minnesota, a series of workshops offered across the state aims to educate school leaders and teachers on child development and pre-K through third grade work.

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PROOF POINTS: Putting praise to the test

The Hechinger Report

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. Herman’s earlier 2018 study of a praise-heavy classroom management program for elementary school students called The Incredible Years also found positive results.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 04

Dangerously Irrelevant

It also requires a mindset shift away from the teacher as the classroom manager and deliverer of content. As many teachers can tell you, this type of teaching for student ownership and empowerment is difficult and requires a different set of instructional skills. You design the instructional experience.

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New Teachers Need More Support. Here's an Easy Way to Help

ED Surge

Classroom walk-throughs and observations place undue stress on new teachers, eat into prep time and can exacerbate existing classroom management issues. School-wide PD often feels disconnected from a new teacher’s work. This resulted in an unfavorable ratio of mentor teachers to early-career and new teachers.

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Teachers often ask youngsters to learn in ways that exceed even adult-sized attention spans

The Hechinger Report

A large-scale study of more than 50 elementary school classrooms found that decorations, such as these in a 2014 kindergarten room, are a frequent source of distraction and off-task student behavior. In other words, the average elementary school student is distracted more than a quarter of the time.

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‘Data days’ and longer math classes: How one district is improving math scores

The Hechinger Report

So they made the school day longer and freed up enough full days to allow for “data days,” Hayes said. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. Piedmont Elementary School Principal Brigett Stewart and Piedmont Middle School Principal Chris Hanson on Aug. 31, 2023, in Piedmont, Ala.