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 | From Beth Lewis, your Guide to Elementary Education Thanksgiving is around the corner! How do you get grateful in the classroom? | |
Thanksgiving Lesson Ideas
In my personal life, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love its family-oriented, food-centric, gratitude-focused spirit. That's my kind of holiday! So it comes naturally to me to bring my Thanksgiving enthusiasm into the classroom. My top way to spread the November cheer is through a variety of Thanksgiving writing activities: - Thanksgiving Math Word Problems
- Thanksgiving Acrostic Poem Lesson
- Thanksgiving Writing Prompts
- A Thanksgiving Word Bank (for use with any Thanksgiving writing lesson)
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving lesson? I'd love to add to my November repertoire.... Read more
| Top Ten Teaching Mistakes
Nobody likes to talk about making mistakes. Yet, it's inevitable that we all make errors in our teaching career, maybe even on a daily basis, if we're being honest! (On my toughest teaching days, I sometimes feel like I'm messing up every hour!) But it's good to be aware of common teaching pitfalls so that we can strive to continually improve as educators. As they say, "Pride comes before the fall." So it's better to get pride out of the picture and be honest about where you can improve your skills. In that spirit, here is my list of Top Ten Teaching Mistakes. Did I miss anything major? Let me know in the comments section!... Read more
| Behavior Contracts for Challenging Students
We're a few months into the new school year. Hopefully, you and your students are starting to gel and work together like a finely-tuned machine. However, it's common to have one or two students who are, for whatever reason, exceptions to your classroom discipline plan. The best course of action may be to design a more structured and individualized contract to support the student's goals. That's where a behavior contract comes in. If you've never used this method before, here's how and why to do it. But if you use another approach, I'd love to hear about it. Leave a comment if you have another way to help your more challenging students "get with the program" was functioning and happy members of your classroom community.... Read more
| Core Teaching Strategies
Some days, we all feel like beginning teachers. That's why these Teaching Strategies are not just for new teachers, but also veteran educators. These strategies represent the most fundamental skills that effective teachers use on a daily basis to be successful.
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