In my work as an educational consultant, I travel to many new places and meet educators from all over the world—teachers, administrators, specialists and staff. Once, while presenting to a group of new teachers, I focused on self-care for teachers and social emotional learning. The administrators said, “Nice, but let’s get on to the real […]
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Fluency Development Lesson In all my years of experience, I have witnessed the importance of development of sentence structure in teaching reading and writing. Students will learn to write sentences in a systematic process. As part of our responses to poetry, I have students draw a picture and write a sentence about their picture, including
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Maui: Hawaiian Superman Now students are all excited about the Disney movie “Moana.” Moana means ocean in the Hawaiian language. I do not think there was ever a girl named Moana, not in historical times, nor in legends. The Disney depiction of the character of Maui, a demi-god of the Pacific Islanders, is one I would have never recognized, after
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Joy. The first word that comes to my mind when I think of teaching reading. Especially to struggling readers. Over the years, many parents have come to me, asking for help for their child who could not read. They have tried everything. They asked the school for resources and extra help found they had driven down a
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I love to play. I am a child at heart. Most of us can think of some kind of activity where we feel like a kid again. There are many moments in the school day when I feel the joy of being a kid again. My favorite activity, which brings out the kid in me is having
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Joy. What I love about teaching is joy! Often we teachers are tired– and at times — burned out. Other times, we are frustrated, when we work hard and have contradicting tasks and overwhelming responsibilities: meeting deadlines, and figuring out how to motivate all children, while differentiating our lessons to help all children succeed. Yet, it
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