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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. Learning to take responsibility for our own actions can be a lifelong process and teachers are well placed to provide support and guidance for students.
How many times have you taken that tub of books or assignments from the classroom to the car, into the house, back to the car, back to the classroom and still not completed the marking? In your search for a balance between home and work, improved marking strategies could give you more flexibility and time… time that could be better spent doing other things!
Teaching Strategies: Using Body Language To Build Positive Relationships With Students In […]
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.
Simple Ways To Impact School Culture We know from workplace studies that […]
Teaching Strategies: How To Run Circle Time In Your Classroom In this […]
How To Assist An Underachieving Student The teaching profession presents many challenges. […]
6 Ways To Help A Child Who Lacks Focus For many children, […]
If you want to be a successful teacher and ensure your kids […]
The American Academy of Ophthalmology estimates that a massive 80% of all […]
Stress, it’s almost endemic for teachers. Unfortunately, the more stressed you are, […]
Just as a young child learns to master their environment when they have appropriate levels of support and freedom, so our students learn to be independent, self-motivated learners when the environment is appropriately predictable and challenging. Here are 8 ways to help your students be independent learners
Being a teacher can often be one of the most rewarding and […]
Are You Making Space For Your Introverted Students? Susan Cain’s best selling […]
Technical Challenges Teaching (Young Students) Online As the last year has seen […]
How positive reinforcement can help students behave You can improve student behaviour 80% of the time if you use positive rather than negative feedback. Don’t believe me?
The coronavirus pandemic has affected basically every aspect of modern life, including […]
The end of the year is fast approaching and if you are like any other teacher ever, you will be checking up on how much content you have taught this year, how much you didn’t get done and frantically trying to assess students for their learning so that you can write an accurate report for the end of the year.
When students don’t listen or follow directions, or they roll their eyes when you speak, or they talk while you are talking, it can seem as though they don’t care what you think of them. This is a misconception. Young people do care what adults e.g. parents and teachers think of them. They care very deeply even when they don’t show it. The more it seems they don’t care, the more they do care.
Planning does not just mean preparing your lesson content, but giving thought to how you want your students to behave before, during and after the lesson. Here are 5 simple yet highly powerful ways to create positive behaviour change with your students.