User Generated Education

MAY 13, 2018

But elementary school-age kids do have the natural curiosity, imagination, drive, and ability to come up with innovative ways to change the world for the better. Learning tasks are authentic, relevant, and promote life skills outside of the formal classroom. Not every child is temperamentally suited to be a social entrepreneur.

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Elementary Survey Exercises Google 248

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. I have found the smart board very helpful in my classroom.

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Classroom EdTech Elementary Trends 98

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The best part is the conversations that I get to have with learners, especially at the elementary level. Downing Elementary School with principal Marcos Lopez as part of some broader work in Ector County ISD. Numerous studies have found that without breaks students have higher instances of inappropriate classroom behavior.

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Learning Elementary Outcomes Blended Learning 420

Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

13] If you can teach your students how to recognize and regulate their emotions, they’ll be better prepared to focus and reach their potential both inside and outside the classroom. On a whole-class level, teaching your students to develop emotional intelligence can significantly improve your classroom environment.[3]

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Classroom Examples Training Elementary 317

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Danielle Robinson, district math coach in Milwaukee, says subitizing has become a more common daily ritual in her city’s pre-K classrooms over the past two years. A teacher might flash a picture of three dots on a screen at the front of the classroom. Subitizing is not baby stuff that you move on from,” said Clements.

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Learning Elementary Study Exercises 133

Waterford

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Students in older grades, for example, will be ready to discuss topics at a more complex level than students in early elementary school. If a student uses unsympathetic language or interrupts another student while discussing the topic, remind them that your classroom is a community and that it is not okay to treat another student unkindly.

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Classroom Examples Exercises Elementary 279

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

” Tech wish lists If educators could have any tech tool for their classroom, 46% say interactive displays with advanced features are at the top of their lists. ” Tech wish lists If educators could have any tech tool for their classroom, 46% say interactive displays with advanced features are at the top of their lists.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Second, the regular classroom teacher or librarian may be intimidated with these advanced tools and technologies. Removal of Archaic, Non-Flexible Classroom Desks. Classroom educators and librarians may wonder how they might create spaces for playing, tinkering, making, collaborating, discussing, researching, and reflecting.

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Libraries Classroom Maker Movement Robotics 165

Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

? Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] While edtech tools are in most classrooms, not every educator understands how to use technology in meaningful ways. Read on to learn how to use technology in the classroom to truly engage students. Her role was to support educators in innovative practices.

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Strategy Technology How To Robotics 288

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a great show for teachers to see balance and encouragement so they can be their best in the classroom. Today, I interviewed Barb Flowers, an elementary school principal and host of the Teacher Burnout Podcast and the Less Stressed Principal Podcast. Stream by clicking here. With a Ph.D. Contact us if you find mistakes!

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Education Elementary Exercises Classroom 465

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. Open Library.

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Libraries Mobility eBook Tablets 543

Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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Common Core Elementary Outcomes Report 323

User Generated Education

MAY 17, 2024

But elementary school-age kids do have the natural curiosity, imagination, drive, and ability to come up with innovative ways to change the world for the better. Learning tasks are authentic, relevant, and promote life skills outside of the formal classroom. Not every child is temperamentally suited to be a social entrepreneur.

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Elementary Common Core Survey Exercises 177

Waterford

MAY 3, 2021

Field day means time to unwind and have fun as a class, and it can be a defining memory for many children long after they move on from your classroom. Half are appropriate for in-person and hybrid classrooms depending on local guidelines, and half are great for distance learning classrooms. Having a field day soon?

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Exercises Guidelines Elementary Classroom 246

ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

But amid a rush of new and emerging classroom solutions promising gains in student mental health and well-being, it’s becoming increasingly clear that not all K-12 SEL solutions are created equal. Yet just 22 percent said they felt “very prepared” to teach SEL in classrooms. That’s the bad news. The good news? The research is clear.

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Learning Outcomes Exercises Survey 448

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

We did a fairy tale exercise in which teams of students programmed their robot to act like a little pig running away from the Big Bad Wolf. To my fellow educators who are new to robotics for elementary students: I know that the logistics of setting up coding lessons for young learners can be daunting when you’re teaching seven classes a day.

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Robotics STEM Libraries Elementary 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them.

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eBook Libraries Mobility Tablets 418

Waterford

MARCH 5, 2020

Read on to learn all about makerspaces and why they may be the key to revolutionizing your classroom. If you’ve heard about makerspaces but are not sure whether they’re right for your classroom, a good place to start is a quick rundown on what makerspaces are. Why create a makerspace for the children in your classroom?

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Classroom STEM Digital Citizenship Case Study 227

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When teachers grade these exercises, it creates anxiety among students still grappling with new concepts or skills. In the example below, elementary students working on a narrative are encouraged to look at their rough draft and evaluate where they believe they are in relation to specific criteria.

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Assessment Strategy Exercises Groups 426

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. Open Library.

Libraries 459

Libraries Mobility eBook Tablets 459

Waterford

APRIL 9, 2024

Social Skills Activities for Elementary Students with Autism Students with autism often have trouble interpreting and mirroring neurotypical social cues; the same is true of non-autistic students for interpreting and responding to autistic social cues. This means that about 1 in 36 of the children you teach will be diagnosed with autism.

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Strategy Resources Exercises Elementary 264

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

As a blended learning coach, I often see students at the elementary level rotate through a station rotation lesson like the one pictured below. Although I appreciate the value of adaptive software, it is important to pair online practice with a metacognitive exercise. MathJournalTemplate. Each day, students complete one of the slides.

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Software Blended Learning Exercises Elementary 284

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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Exercises Elementary Report Study 108

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college.

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Elementary Report Training Advocacy 145

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2018

The classroom of the future isn’t far from becoming a reality in 2018. From learning analytics tools providing students with instant feedback on their work to virtual reality facilitating field trips to faraway lands to 3D printers filling makerspaces, the classroom looks quite a bit different than it did just five years ago.

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Trends Digital Citizenship Learning Analytics STEM 300

Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

When we found out we would be homeschooling for a time, I decided to set up a schedule that incorporated several elements of his classroom with a mix of on and offline activities. Carly Chillmon (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): My kids are active, very active. Yes, I need reminders to breathe and I make plenty of mistakes.

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Learning Elementary Video Training 416

Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

2] Read on to learn how we got here, why it matters, and how teachers can build media literacy in the classroom. The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media.

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Social Media Elementary Resources Smartphone 260

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

So teachers settled in—or at least tried—to their newly-virtual classrooms and made their home arrangements more manageable for the longer term. Her new classroom—limited to a window on a computer screen—feels very restrictive. Speaking to a Zoom classroom can feel both strangely chaotic and isolating.

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Classroom Education Laptops Meeting 204

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2015

My notes from yesterday’s Code.org elementary coding workshop… Ben Schafer , University of Northern Iowa, Facilitator. Code.org’s elementary school courses overview [VIDEO]. Producer of online courses in 30,000 classrooms. Code.org elementary curriculum was created in conjunction with Cal-Berkeley. Images. . .

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Elementary Training Handbook Course 100

Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 16, 2019

One resolution my elementary students and I are setting is to be more healthy with our digital use. With the Move It Chrome browser extension , you can set notification intervals on the students’ computers, and the screen will present a random brain break and exercise to complete. Some videos are as short as 30 seconds.

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Social Media Tablets Exercises Course 256

Waterford

MARCH 31, 2020

Because approximately 1 in 59 students are diagnosed with autism, learning how to help students with this disorder in the classroom is so important.[1] Social Skills Activities for Elementary Students with Autism. You can use this as a tactile art activity if you’d like or as a science activity for elementary students.

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Strategy Resources Elementary Examples 345

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. The benefits of playing in the classroom are becoming more obvious.

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Classroom Outcomes STEM Groups 214

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Glaser’s second grade classroom. The problem isn’t with timed retrieval practice exercises like the Mad Minute. In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female. 60, 59, 58….I

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Elementary STEM Exercises Study 216

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Doug Worthen guided his small class of ninth graders at Middlesex School through an exercise designed to focus their attention. Megan Sweet is the senior director of program and impact at Mindful Schools, a nonprofit organization that trains educators to teach mindfulness in the classroom. Credit: Jena Brooker for The Hechinger Report.

Classroom 145

Classroom Exercises Survey Elementary 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Then that too changed when rote drills and worksheets were replaced with cerebral challenges and dynamic exercises. Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. The MathFacts.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 333

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

During debate exercises, there’s been a “consolidation” around points of view that are more left-leaning, he says, and a reluctance to make the case for extreme right-leaning positions. “I And this seeps into the college culture within the context of a classroom. To me, that's a problem from a pedagogical perspective.”

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How To Classroom Study Secondary 178

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Age group: Upper elementary. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Financial Football.

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Common Core Groups Mobility Elementary 323