The Ultimate Teaching Guide To Independent Learning
The Ultimate Teaching Guide To Independent Learning
By giving kids agency over what they learn and how they learn you will harness their natural curiosity which is the basis for motivation.
The Ultimate Teaching Guide To Independent Learning
How To Change Whole Class Student Behaviour
How To Change Whole Class Student Behaviour
It is one thing when a couple of students are disruptive, but what do you do when it's the whole class of students being problematic?
How To Change Whole Class Student Behaviour
SERIES: Effective Use of Reward Systems in The Classroom
SERIES: Effective Use of Reward Systems in The Classroom
This series discusses and provides practical strategies for teachers to effectively promote student success by using reward systems in the classroom. specifically, I will discuss the biggest mistakes made and how to correct them when implementing reward systems, how to use reward systems in the most productive way, how they fit into the school view and approach to rewards, and finally a discussion on punishment.
SERIES: Effective Use of Reward Systems in The Classroom
Teachers Beginning Of The School Year: Series
Teachers Beginning Of The School Year: Series
Whether you are a new teacher or a teacher looking for ways to invigorate your practice or whether you starting at the beginning of the school year or part way through there are basic principles and ways of operating that will support you in this wonderful profession of teaching.
Teachers Beginning Of The School Year: Series
How To Promote Resilience In Your Students
How To Promote Resilience In Your Students
Is resilience the key to student success?
How to promote resilience in our students is a hot topic in education and health at the moment and for a good reason.
Resilience is the ability to cope with negative life events and challenges. It has been described as the capacity to 'bounce back' from difficult situations and persist in the face of adversity.
Developing resilience in young people is considered by many as the antidote to the epidemic of mental ill-health across our society today.
The rate of students with anxiety and depression is of growing concern (Sawyer et al, 2000; Mission Australia, 2009) and schools are uniquely placed to contribute to healthy student attitudes and self-awareness.
How To Promote Resilience In Your Students
What Is The Purpose Of Discipline?
What Is The Purpose Of Discipline?
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
What Is The Purpose Of Discipline?
How To Get A Student To Own Their Behaviour
How To Get A Student To Own Their Behaviour
For children and young people who live in uncertain family situations, who do not trust easily and who do not have positive role modeling for taking responsibility, this may be like asking them to fly to the moon.
How To Get A Student To Own Their Behaviour
Why Rewards Don't Work
Why Rewards Don't Work
There are so many differing views on what positive reinforcement actually is, and whether you should or should not use it. Positive reinforcement can be a variety of things: grades on a report card, verbal praise, non-verbal acknowledgment, specific feedback and tangible rewards.
Here are 13 mistakes that teachers make when using reinforcement.
Why Rewards Don't Work