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Year-Long Choice Boards for Bell Ringers, Early Finishers, and More!
Give your students the power of choice with the wide variety of brain-building activities on these year-long choice boards! Each month features timely and unique activities to choose from. Perfect as bell ringers, brain breaks, early finishers, Fun Fridays, sub plans - any down time when you still want them to do something meaningful. An activity sheet comes with each task to keep them on track and get their creative juices flowing. Perfect for middle school, independent or collaborative…
Surprising Lessons from Building My First Escape Room
Toward the end of March, my juniors took the ACT, and I saw an opportunity to try my hand at creating an escape room. Overall, the process was fun for the students, took some of the stress out of their upcoming test, and taught me some great lessons about gamification. Here are the secrets I learned from creating my first escape room.
Halloween Writing Prompts
Spark your students' creativity with these creative ideas for Halloween writing activities. Use Halloween story starters or writing prompts to inspire them to write creative stories and descriptive, narrative, or persuasive writing. Spice up their writing assignments with fun printable or digital writing papers with festive and colorful Halloween designs!
Halloween Grammar Activities and Word Puzzles
Find lots of fun grammar and language activities with a Halloween theme, including a FREE Halloween puzzle! these activities are perfect for upper elementary or even adult ESL students for grammar and language practice! #halloween #grammar #ela #puzzles #games #ESL #AdultESL
Avoid Teacher Burnout & Stress with These Simple Habits
Join us on The Balanced Educator Podcast as we discuss with Grace Stevens how to reduce teacher stress and empower educators. In this episode, we explore Grace's journey from corporate life to becoming a public school teacher and her 20 years of experience in education. Tune in to learn the 5 habits that lead to less stress and more empowerment in education. Perfect for teachers seeking resources to thrive and succeed during the school year. Education | Teacher Resources #teach #education
Task Based Learning: TBL Overview for Language Teachers (ESL)
Find out all the details you need to know about Task-Based language teaching, including an overview, steps to follow and activity ideas for a TBL lesson. #task #tasks #taskbased #task-based #tbl #teaching #education #method #methodology #presentation #informationgap #infogap #english #language
Why Online ESL Teaching is the Future
Online teaching has revolutionized the education industry & ESL teaching is no exception. With the rapid advancements in technology and the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become an increasingly popular and practical option for teachers. Beyond the pandemic, there are numerous reasons why transitioning to online teaching can be a smart and life-changing move for educators looking to find balance, meaning, and stability in their lives. Read our blog post to find out why online teaching is the…
Spelling Practice with Word Puzzles
Building spelling skills takes lots of practice, but it doesn't have to be boring! With these fun word puzzles, your students won't even realize they are learning spelling patterns! In this blog post, you'll find several puzzle ideas to practice spelling, including FREE word puzzles! Perfect for upper elementary or middle school ELA and even Adult ESL!
Classroom Games to Boost Teaching: Benefits & Examples
Check out these fun classroom games that are designed to increase teaching effectiveness, along with benefits and examples. #class #classes #classroom #classroomgame #classroomgames #classgames #game #games #fun #fungame #fungames #teaching #teacher #elementary #tefl #esl #tesol
Develop Focus Strategies
How can we expect our #students to focus on their work if they’ve never been taught how to focus? It can make both our lives as teachers and our students’ lives much easier if we teach them self-regulation and #focus strategies in an explicit way. To do that, we need to give students the opportunity to learn and reflect on what they personally need to be able to focus. A strategy that might work for one distracted student won’t work for the next. Education | Teaching Tips | Lesson Planning
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