Tag: studentengagement
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Engagement Strategies for Guided Reading
If you’re a teacher who is reading this then the odds are favorable that you’ve done some sort of read aloud in your classroom before. A read aloud is often done to engage students while they simply listen, or maybe they multi-task by drawing, or working on something else, while you read. I love doing…
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Movement For the Win
My class this year is extra wiggly, loud and silly. All three of those things have contributed to making this year my hardest year of teaching yet. It has made me question myself as an educator, and I have often wondered if I am doing the best for these 25 humans. What I have come…
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Am I correct?
One of the things that I struggle with most as a teacher is getting to all of my students when they need me. I know that for students to benefit from feedback it needs to be immediate, and when you have 25 (or more) students that can be extremely difficult. Now, what I have noticed…
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Student Engagement Slump?
First of all, every teacher experiences it, so don’t take it personally. (Seriously, we’ve ALL been there!) The trick, however, is finding ways to get out of your slump. Most teachers agree that higher levels of engagement mean higher levels of achievement, so finding things to do in your classroom to increase engagement are vitally…
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