DocHub- Annotate PDFs directly in Google Drive. 10 ways to encourage students to take responsibility for their learning… 1. Don’t make all the decisions Allow choice. Encourage students to make decisions about how they learn best. Create opportunities for them to pursue their own interests and practise skills in a variety of ways. Cater for different learning styles. 2. Ask open-ended questions, with plenty of possible answers which lead to further questions. 3. Minimise standing out front and talking at them. 4. Talk about your own learning. 5. Get your students to write down what they learned, whether they enjoyed a particular learning experience, what helped their learning, what hindered their learning and what might help them next time. 6. Record student thinking and track development over time. 7. Help students to define goals for their learning. 8. If you know exactly where the lesson is leading and what you want the kids to think, then you‘re controlling the learning. 9.
Make sure you and your students know the reason for every learning experience. 10. I know there are lots more ways. Like this: Making Learning Awesome! - Kahoot! Velcro Manipulatives. Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers – Helping teachers make better classrooms, one mouse-click at a time. CEI-Take-a-Break-Teacher-Toolbox (6-12th grade)
20 Three-Minute Brain Breaks. Wednesday's guest post about why kids need to move from pediatric occupational therapist Loren Shlaes was so popular that I decided to follow it up with a list of Brain Breaks you can use with your students.
These are great to use anytime your students are feeling restless and are struggling to pay attention. Most of these will only take a few minutes, and then you can get back to the lesson with your students ready to focus on the lesson at hand.5-4-3-2-1. In this simple game, students stand up and the teacher (or leader) has them do five different movements in descending order. For example the teacher would say: "Do fivejumping jacks, spin around four times, hop on one foot threetimes, walk all the way around the classroom two times, give your neighbor one high-five (pausing in between each task for students to do it).Trading Places Have students stand behind their pushed-in chairs. Please note that I did not come up with all of these out of my own head. 20 Brain Break Clips: Fight the Fidgeting! - teachtrainlove.com. Brain-Break-Ideas-For-Teachers. Effective Brain Break Activity. Interactive Review Game: Animal Cracker Box.
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