Study stress classroom activities Stress is natural. It's the body's way of sharpening focus, and of increasing stamina and alertness, so that you can rise to challenges and face tough situations. This type of stress is productive stress. On the other hand, unproductive stress can cause health issues and other problems. The key to managing stress is finding the sweet spot between the two types. This resource is designed to help you support your students (and their parents and carers) through the stressful exam period. The activities cover tips and resources on everything from encouraging students to adopt a growth mindset, to suggestions for effective study habits.
Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Cultivate Classroom Equity Filling the Gaps Ks3 to GCSE Last year before my former year 9 students were to start their GCSE geography course I felt I should drop the final topic for the summer term and instead focus on filling the gaps. Reoccurring errors or struggles were arising from a number of low and middle ability students, so I collated a list of them. Using this I set about creating a filling the gaps scheme of work around the key skills and foundation knowledge required for GCSE. I talked about the filling the gaps SoW here when I posted how I would be getting my students GCSE ready by mastering the foundations. I thought I’d share the resources with you so you can edit to suit your students and their reoccurring errors or struggles. Each section is split up into bronze, silver and gold. Each task corresponds with criteria on the learning matrix (shown above) making it easy to assess student’s and identify their successes and areas for improvement. FinallyEach sub-section end with a self assessment sheet like the one below Like this:
10 things every teacher educator should know and be able to do The emergent interest in evidence-informed teaching has, inevitably, led to a growing discussion about the implications this has for how we teach our teachers to teach. Here, Faye Craster, Director of Teacher Development at Teach First, considers what an evidence- informed framework might look like for teacher training and preparation. Training teachers to be the best they can be as quickly as possible is arguably one of the biggest levers for improving education in any country. In England, around 25,000 teachers begin initial teacher training (ITT) each year and this requires around the same number of teacher educators(1) working to support them. There are many different routes into teaching and Teach First – a charity which recruits and trains teachers and places them in schools in disadvantaged areas, with the aim of achieving an equal education for all children – works with nearly 2000 school mentors, 160 of our own expert teacher educators and around 100 university tutors. 1. Why?
On line business tips and tutorials A lot of people want to know how to add subtitles to a video. You can actually do it in YouTube but that only works if you upload the video to YouTube. It is also rather limited. What is the quickest way and the cheapest way to create a website. This quick video tutorial will take you through all the benefits of email marketing. This is a really useful video if you are thinking of advertising on Facebook. An online educational business needs quality content to attract customers. In this video tutorial, Russell Stannard shows you the basics of how his small organisation works. Russell Stannard has been running Teacher Training Videos since 2007. YouTube can be so useful to your online business.
Health Benefits of Being Outside: Improve Memory, Lower Blood Pressure How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive n many courses, the days after the first exam can be stressful. Some students might feel worried about the results, or even doubt their abilities. So at the end of one challenging exam, a professor took a few minutes of class time to reassure her students. Her brief remarks led to the kind of email that every faculty member should want to receive: “The speech you gave post-exam was something I needed to hear. You may wonder: Is the role of a college instructor to help students feel included and ready to thrive? Besides teaching content and skills in your discipline, your role is to help students learn. Teaching inclusively means embracing student diversity in all forms — race, ethnicity, gender, disability, socioeconomic background, ideology, even personality traits like introversion — as an asset. Traditional teaching methods do not serve all students well. Jump to a section: Common Questions f you’re still skeptical at this point, you’re not alone. I don’t teach about diversity. Yes.
untitled May 2020 Teaching Geography through books and textsOver the last four years or so, the use of books and texts in geography seems to be very much in vogue and rightly so in my opinion. I first became aware of the power of this through the impressive schemes of work written by Paul Turner, Alan Parkinson and Matt Podbury around the book ‘Factfulness’ (link to book review) and indeed teaching ‘Factfulness’ is one of my favourite topics to teach at Key Stage 3. Having followed their lead, I have become a huge advocate of carefully selecting extracts, texts and books for use in teaching geography. Why use a story or journey in geography?In her book, ‘Geography Through Enquiry’, Margaret Roberts quite rightly reminds us that students do not necessarily come into the classroom wanting to know about life expectancy in Nigeria, the tax problem of India or the labour costs of China. So, if we are to engage them in their study of geography, we need to create a ‘need to know’.
Five Pillars For My Online Classroom Like many around the globe, I’m preparing to move from face to face to online teaching. In the state of Alabama, where I teach, this will last until at least the end of this school year (May). I’ve received a lot of assistance from educators online and I actually feel somewhat comfortable from the ed tech side of teaching online. I’m not sure yet whether this confidence is really just veiled ignorance, but I’ll find out soon. We are on spring break at the moment and don’t start online with students until next week. Beyond the technical aspects of moving online, there are other considerations to be made. I’ve thought about this a lot over the past week and come up with five pillars of my online classroom. Here are my five pillars: Require only what is necessary. I plan on only assigning work that is absolutely necessary to demonstrate understanding of material. Carry over norms, when possible, from the physical classroom. Many students found comfort in our classroom. Communicate. a. b. c.
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