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Build a Teacher’s Survival Kit. Posted by Shelly Terrell on Sunday, August 25th 2013 Goal 11: Build Your Teacher’s Survival Kit of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators.

Build a Teacher’s Survival Kit

Click the link to find out more about the 30 Goals Challenge for Educators. “A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.” ~ Patricia Neal This year with the 30 Goals Challenge for Educators, our 30 Goals Facebook community is voting to determine some of the goals which are mostly from the previous 3 cycles. My Take on the Goal When I first began teaching, I remember meeting a veteran teacher who carried a big bag with her everywhere.

Short-term- Create your own teacher’s survival kit. Long-term- Continue to add items to your survival kit and learn strategies from others then conduct a workshop in which you show other teachers how to build their survival kits. More Resources. Goal 11: Bulid a Teacher's Survival Kit #30GoalsEdu. Learning Fun with Play Dough. Masking Tape Activities. Ball activities. Fingerplay. Role-Plays. Play dough. ● Imagination Box is an incredible creativity app that allows children to draw, color, sculpt, and make anything they want - Best Apps for Kids ● offers hours of fun, unlimited replay value and a an impressive number of tools that will sparks your kids imagination and creativity!

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- Fun Educational Apps ● absolutely a great art/creativity app suitable for preschoolers and early elementary schoolers - Real Kids Apps ● one of the “Best Creativity Apps for Kids of 2013″ according to Top Kids Apps Give your child endless possibilities for educational and open-ended creative play that will bring a huge smile to their face with Imagination Box! Every child loves play dough, but no one enjoys cleaning up the mess.

This application takes care of that problem, and does so much more! This lite version of Imagination Box is a great “Try Before You Buy” option! KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE As a MOMs with Apps member, we follow the "Know what's inside" best practices for kids’ apps. Pumping Them Up with Digital Icebreakers. (27) Chanting Games on Pinterest. 10+ Getting to Know You Activities for Kids. Chanting & Rhyme Games for Learners. Improv Games for the Language Classroom. Kids games. 10+ Getting to Know You Activities for Teens & Adults. Making Reading fun For Kids. 10+ Activities to Do Around the School Ground. (27) Kids' Classroom Games for Learning on Pinterest. Datenglish: My teaching survival kit.

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” ― Galileo Galilei My laptop, my students' own device, a headset, markers, sticky notes, papers and more papers, my glasses and coffee to start My camera and my students' smart phones We sometimes go out for a walk and take a few pictures, then we sit down on a bench in a nearby park and talk about our findings.

Datenglish: My teaching survival kit

Photos, pictures, images, sounds When we capture images, moments become more memorable. And stories become memorable as well ... This is a story Sebi, 16 years old wrote: A collection of lesson plans. Some S.O.S. stories. This is a story I recorded for this goal but I told "A storm of pink petals" once while teaching online and my student got too emotional after listening to a song. A video clip collection Google documents, Skype, Google Hangout For online classes and when we are able to connect with other learners or teachers Tools to collect students' learning(s)MybrainsharkPrezi.

Maria T: Build Your Teacher’s Survival Kit. Digital Citizenship Survival Kit. I have been thinking about some "new" items I could add to my original Digital Citizenship Kit that I created last year.

Digital Citizenship Survival Kit

Like I said in that blog post, I love using props when teaching. After some great conversations with the good wife @jenbadura on what I should include, I have come up with some new items to include in the survival kit. Yes, you can use this with your students! After I blogged about the original kit, I had a plethora of teachers email me or send me a tweet me asking if it was okay to use this idea at their school. Please do! Packet of Seeds Any packet of seeds will do for your kit. Plug In I used a six foot extension cord and cut it so that I have the male and female end together. Mirror Imagine having the mirror attached to your computer/device. Sheet of Paper One of the most powerful items in the kit. Magnifying Glass.