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A Systematic Approach to Social and Emotional Support

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 19, 2021

All of this has led to a dramatic increase in discipline issues and a significant amount of time having to be spent on classroom management and establishing routines. Lesson planning/activities : While Daily Meeting is a great start, SEL should be emphasized across the curriculum.

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Making Headway with Remote and Hybrid Learning

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2021

They shared how teachers got better using technology, reached out more for feedback, collaborated more, and improved classroom management. As each leader presented their views on positive shifts to practice, you could see their pride swell.

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10 Strategies to Strengthen Instruction and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. I still can’t believe how much time and focus there was on how to manage a classroom effectively. When I think back to my training to become a teacher, there were some reasonably consistent norms.

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How Mentorship Has Kept Me in the Classroom

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I entered the classroom through an alternative certification program , which meant I hadn’t received the same level of preparation as teachers who came through traditional teacher training routes. I struggled with classroom management, curriculum design and the pressures of working in a high-poverty school.

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8 Strategies Your Teaching More Enjoyable This Year

TeachThought

JULY 18, 2024

It depends on factors, including building and climate, mindset, relationships with parents, student engagement, and classroom management, the function of various standards in your teaching and curriculum, the quality of the PLCs—if they are used in your building—and so on. Of course, this varies greatly from teacher to teacher.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. When you have 45 minutes once a week with students that have so many different levels of learning, so many different accommodations and modifications, and you still have to stay with it and plan and be able to change or modify in a moment, classroom management is key.

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Making Social Studies Fun to Teach | Teacher Testimonial

Studies Weekly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The most valuable resources to her are the lesson plans. When she switched to Studies Weekly Social Studies, she had, for the first time, a social studies curriculum that was both simple to follow and fun to teach. Studies Weekly has changed my outlook on history, she says. They are step-by-step and easy to follow.

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I’m a Teacher, Will Artificial Intelligence Help Me?

Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

In this post, we will focus on one example of an AI system that can help teachers manage their workload and the importance of engaging teachers in the design of AI systems. While AI has come a long way since the 1950s when the term was coined and work on Intelligent Tutoring Systems began, it simply cannot replace a teacher in the classroom.

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Primary Source Analysis Worksheet: Photograph Analysis Start Learning with Primary Sources Start engaging with primary sources with our free downloadable Primary Source Analysis Tools.

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Supporting Teachers in a Hybrid Learning Environment

Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

Everything is placed neatly into your school bag, the classroom is beautifully made up, and all the seats and materials are ready to go for students. The lesson plans are typed up and printed out and the lesson objectives and daily agenda are posted artfully on the board.

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Picture This: Using Bilateral Drawing to Recenter and Destress

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. They are not available for homeschools. 9 Movement Activities to Try With Your Students September 6, 2024 The post Picture This: Using Bilateral Drawing to Recenter and Destress first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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Teacher Engagement Part II: Emotional Engagement

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

Two main factors can have a significant impact on a teacher’s emotional engagement at work: The quality of their relationships with students Student behaviors and classroom management. Student Behaviors and Classroom Management.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

5 Classroom Management Tips for Elementary Teachers Sep 17, 2024 • by Studies Weekly Classroom management is such a big part of teaching and has become more critical as students readjust to post-pandemic in-person learning. Join our teacher Facebook group to share your classroom management teacher tips.

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What should new teachers know before they set foot in a classroom?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

They listed among their younger colleagues’ strengths: lesson planning, the ability to adjust their teaching to the needs of students, and preparedness to address the academic needs of struggling students. We do classroom management really differently than how it’s carried out in the schools,” Pensavalle said.

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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

The project was simple for me because it came with the guidance like a rubric, a model and examples to help with lesson planning. Earlier this year, I was facilitating a series of three lessons about classroom management.

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The Role of the Substitute Teacher Needs an Overhaul

ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In a deal struck between the New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers, a new position — paraprofessional classroom manager (PCM) — was created as a temporary solution to allow paraprofessionals (paras) like me to sub for classroom teachers. These are luxuries that are not afforded to most subs.

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The end of ‘sink or swim’? Four ways district leaders can help first-year teachers overcome common struggles

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Classroom Management: This is one of the biggest struggles for incoming teachers. They have a lot of great ideas for teaching and for leading a classroom, but minimal experience establishing and maintaining structures that keep students engaged and productively learning.

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Your Teachers Need a Win

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Classroom management and logistics : Have they set up any systems in the classroom that makes it run well? Are there any signs that students have been given the tools they need to manage some of their own learning independently? Lesson planning : Do they come up with interesting activities to teach their content?

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How Purposeful Play Opens the Door to Lifelong Learning

ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

LEGO Education designs standards-aligned sets for K-8 students and offers plenty of free support for teachers, including more than 400 online lesson plans —ranging in focus from computer science and English Language Arts (ELA) to robotics and coding— self-guided professional development and an online community where teachers share tips and ideas.

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Lesson 8: How Do You Register to Vote (Grades K-3)

Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ask the students if they know when and where votes are cast. Review the vocabulary erms “poll,”early voting,” and “absentee voting.” ” Have students work in pairs or small groups to decide what the terms mean and why voters might vote early or absentee. Create a graph or chart displaying what students learned.

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Have you seen “What Works” for your schools? Amplify success with a video library of teaching

Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Or classroom management. Or even teaching fractions in a late-elementary classroom. Each video can also have supporting documents like lesson plans and other materials relevant to understanding the classroom context. Consider an existing area of strategic focus for teachers in your district or school.

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How Teach for America Crushed My Passion for Teaching

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With barely a month’s worth of virtual training on lesson planning, pedagogy, content specific best practices, assessment, DEI work and classroom management, I was nowhere near prepared to teach a culturally and linguistically diverse sixth grade class completely online during the height of a pandemic.

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Generative AI has stormed into education. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? Teaching is hard.

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The Giraffe Award: How a Small Celebration Can Change Your Team’s Culture

Education Elements

MARCH 9, 2020

Being on the other side of that teacher table was a role that I did not take lightly, and I engaged in my work each day operating under the belief that any slip ups in classroom management or poorly executed lesson plans would result in the loss of precious moments for my students to learn and grow.

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Moving to 4th Grade

Ashleigh's Education Journey

JUNE 28, 2017

In this post: Pacing Guides Fourth Grade Morning Work Reading Writing Guided Math & Workshops Social Studies & Science Classroom Management Top Ten Resources Pacing Guides It’s hard to start the year without a plan, so you can download example fourth grade pacing guides here.

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17 Tweaks That Make a Big Difference in Group Work

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

These days, Mary Fair navigates her classrooms with ease. She has learned through experience how to teach students with a variety of disabilities, and works with a veteran special education teacher to modify lesson plans and tests.

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10 Summer Tips to Prepare a Great Classroom

Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Professional Development Workshops and Training Attend workshops or training sessions now to gain new ideas and strategies for classroom management and design. Other teachers can share what works for them and tips and tricks they have learned when putting together their classrooms. Submit your info by Aug.

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With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We are often stereotyped as having ‘good classroom management,’” Green said. “So I’d send him the lesson plan the night before. In contrast, at Bricolage, Albert drifted, without a set classroom or a teacher who saw him as a protégé. So I wanted to make sure that Nathaniel knew that I saw him as an educator first.

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Play-Based Learning Activities to Try This Fall

Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Categories Corporate English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Testimonials Teacher Tips The Science of Reading Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts Play-Based Learning Activities to Try This Fall October 7, 2024 5 Classroom Management (..)

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Help Calm your Elementary Students with these Breathing Exercises

Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. They are not available for homeschools.

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – August 2022

Edthena

AUGUST 29, 2022

Whether it is grading or lesson planning or something else, pick one thing to start with before moving on to the other items on their list. This article outlines four ideas and resources for teachers to help prepare for more empathy in the classroom. F igure out the task and zoom in. O ne thing at a time.

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8 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

MagicSchool offers more than 50 different AI-assisted tools to help speed up so many of the teaching tasks that take so much time: lesson planning, assessment building, feedback, communication with parents, even an IEP generator. The Tools 1. MagicSchool magicschool.ai Diffit web.diffit.me Need a text on a particular topic?

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Professional Development Partnerships with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Discover how our PD offerings can support your success and elevate your classroom experience.

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‘More than a warm body’: Schools try long-term solutions to substitute teacher shortage

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

It also sent templates of lesson plans that teachers can leave for their temporary replacements. Allison hopes that next year, the district might offer stipends for substitutes to take additional training on classroom management and basic instructional skills.

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New Teacher Survival Guide: Lesson Planning, Avoiding Burnout, and Finding Support

TCI

MARCH 12, 2025

Many new teachers step into the classroom full of energy, only to be met with the stark reality of lesson planning, classroom management, and adapting to the diverse needs of studentsall with little structured guidance. I would spend three, four hours after school creating lesson plans for the next day.

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Building Community and Classroom Connections in the New Year

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 6, 2025

Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. They are not available for homeschools.

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Creating Student Buy-In with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial

Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With her students at the heart of her work, Mechelle strives every day to build relationships with her students and see them grow and flourish toward bright futures. Learn more about Studies Weekly’s PreK-6 Social Studies.

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