sinusoidalsoup:

I will always reblog this.

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teachersintiaras:

Her strategies are simply amazing. The way the class is captivated by her and how she captures those teachable moments are simply impeccable. I am definitely stealing some of her ideas. What a wonderful teacher!

teachersintiaras:

This is wonderful! I really love the faces beside each one! I found this on a great website!

teachersintiaras:

Classroom helpers are one of the best parts of elementary school! It is so fun to see how excited the students are each and every day. There are several ways to designate who are the “helping hands” of the day.

A fun, easy, and organized way to keep track of daily helpers is to create a small…

osmium:

mdt:

Back off man, I’m a scientist.

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A young Neil deGrasse Tyson. From the article:

Frank Bash, professor emeritus of astronomy and former director of UT’s McDonald Observatory, supervised Tyson as a teaching assistant for Intro to Astronomy. “Neil had a natural gift for teaching,” Bash says. “After he taught, the students would beg for him back. He did crazy stuff—moonwalking in class.”

Doing the moonwalk for his students wasn’t a gag, Tyson says—it was a strategy. “If you’re only using words to communicate as a teacher, why show up?” he says. “Why not just type your notes? Teaching is a full-body performance. The moonwalk was all the rage in 1983, and the students loved it. It made the material work for them.”

According to Tyson, one of the biggest reasons scientists so often struggle to communicate research to the public is not jargon or lack of interest. It’s a culture gap.

“The average person watches 30 hours of television per week,” he says. “But the average professor doesn’t own a TV, let alone watch the Kardashians or cute kitten videos on YouTube or whatever. And people live for that stuff. We have to speak their language.”

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teachersintiaras:

I’m sure many of you wonderful teachers out there can side with me that tattling is a problem, especially in the EC classroom. My mentor did something simply amazing in order to nip all of the tattles in the bud. She posted a huge laminated poster of when to tattle titled “The Tattling Rules.”

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letgod:

cookingloveandlife:

I can’t even explain how happy this makes my little kindergarten after school teacher heart. Obsessed. If I don’t get to do this with a group of children, I WILL do this with my kids.

AWESOME.

teachersintiaras:

Organization is the key to a successful classroom! A set of 12 of these awesome chalkboard labels is just $8 on Etsy! A must have for successful organization of art supplies (as shown), papers, and so much more. There are so many shapes and sizes on the page! Check it out!

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teachersintiaras:

First off, I am so sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted! Things have been crazy at school and home, so the blog had to take the backseat briefly. Don’t worry-I’m back and here to stay now!

I found some fun attention grabbers online that would work great in just about any classroom (I’m sure…