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How to Remember Names
Do you have trouble remembering all of your new pupils' names at the beginning of each school year? Here are seven handy ideas that you can try out when faced with a whole new group of names to memorize.
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Empathy
Teach your learners about support, respect, and listening skills with an activity about empathy. Class members set goals for themselves regarding their peer relationships, and monitor their own progress over a period of time.
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Edutopia: Goods and Services [Pdf]
A unit that teaches the difference between goods and services, the difference between producers and consumers, the difference between human, natural, and capital resources, and the difference between bartering/trading and buying/selling....
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Edutopia: Blog: Habits of Mind: Terrell Heick: 16 Habits of Mind
Learn about the concept called Habits of Mind and explore 16 key habits for academic success.
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Edutopia: How to Teach Internet Safety to Younger Elementary Students
Learn ways in which teachers can impart internet safety skills to young students.
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Edutopia: Project Based Learning Newsletter
The articles and video segments in this newsletter allow one to see best practices in action. Content includes a video gallery, free instructional modules, and interactive case studies.
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Edutopia: Presidents' Day: A Life Lesson for Students
With this resource, teachers can lead students in a topical conversation regarding President's Day. This free-form instructional activity includes suggested questions and encourages student discussion about the powers and...
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Edutopia: Social Media Guidelines
Read about the ways in which educators can create social media guidelines that work to keep students safe.
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Edutopia: Why Media Literacy Is Not Just for Kids
Do you know the difference between social media skills and overal media literacy? Learn why these skills are not just valuable to students, but to teachers and parents as well.
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Edutopia:five Minute Film Festival: Teaching Digital Citizenship
This collection of videos helps educators to understand the key elements of digital citizenship in order to successfully communicate them to students.
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Edutopia: Ideas for Digital Citizenship Pbl Projects
Explore ideas for project-based learning with a focus on digital citizenship skills.
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Edutopia: Anti Social Media: Spirit Day: Educators and Parents: Cyberbullying
Learn how educators and parents join together on Spirit Day to prevent online bullying of LGBT youth.
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Edutopia: Harnessing the Power of Productive Struggle
Teaching that struggling is part of learning math encourages creativity and builds engagement and perseverance. This article describes Mrs. Tambor's second-grade math class in which the format of the lesson reflected her desire to build...
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Edutopia: Maintaining Students' Motivation for Learning as the Year Goes On
This article explores the idea that neuroscience can suggest ways to keep students working toward their learning goals after their initial excitement wears off. Included are ways to provide choice to invigorate students' motivation,...
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Edutopia: Learner Interest Matters: Strategies for Empowering Student Choice
When a topic connects to what students like to do, engagement deepens as they willingly spend time thinking, dialoguing, and creating ideas in meaningful ways. This article gives ideas on how to harness the power of your students'...
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Edutopia: Innovative Practice: 5 Strategies for the Early Learning Classroom
Project- and play-based learning are essential in the early grades to develop creative learning dispositions during the brain's most active period of synaptic growth. Here are five strategies that can be implemented in early learning...
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Edutopia: Student Led Conferences: Resources for Educators
Whether you already do student-led conferences or are interested in making a shift, this list includes a variety of go-to examples, guides, tips, and forms to help launch or improve these meetings.
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Edutopia: Longer Recess, Stronger Child Development
With an hour-long recess, elementary schools can help children develop through increased creative play, authentic SEL, and adequate physical regulation. This article explains the benefit of active play.
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Edutopia: How to Put Self Directed Learning to Work in Your Classroom
Self-directed learning is a natural pathway to deep understanding and efficacy. This article discusses the benefits of self-directed learning, the components necessary for this type of learning, and how to implement it in your school.
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Edutopia: Activities That Prime the Brain for Learning
Brain breaks and focused attention practices help students feel relaxed and alert and ready to learn. Brain breaks create a state of relaxed alertness, while focused attention practices help students slow down and focus on a stimulus....
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Edutopia: Are You Tapping Into Prior Knowledge Often Enough in Your Classroom?
Learning progresses primarily from prior knowledge, and only secondarily from the materials we present to students, studies show. This article offers some research behind why we need to stop hurrying through lessons and take the time to...
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Edutopia: Brisk and Bright Approaches for National Poetry Month
Ninth grade teacher Brett Vogelsinger offers twelve active ways to incorporate poetry into almost any class. Use these during National Poetry Month (April) or anytime throughout the year.
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Edutopia: Game Based Learning: Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom
A brief article with some excellent ideas on how to incorporate Minecraft into the classroom. (Published April 13, 2012)
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Edutopia: Simulation Nation: The Promise of Virtual Learning Activities
Using the power of simulation as a teaching and learning tool seems like a natural fit. The article and accompanying video outline some successful endeavors to marry technology and simulation with education.