Nerd Alert 🦈 : New FREE Shark Week-Inspired Lesson Plan
Random Saturday post! I wanted to draw your attention to a FREE Shark Week-inspired resource I posted on TeachersPayTeachers, with additional teaching details here.
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The Top 6 Competencies Your Learners Will Need Most For a Complex Future
In a fast-changing, dynamic and hyper-connected world, what abilities will your learners need to have most? “For the past century, schooling has largely been contained within classroom and school walls, and students who graduate have acquired great skills in conforming to the learning expectations defined by others: doing what they have been instructed to do.…
Top 7 Tutoring Pro-Tips to Help You Make Most of Your Child’s At-Home Learning
Teachers have a legal and moral duty to care for their students best summarized by the Latin phrase “In Loco Parentis” — in the place of a parent. In Ontario, and in many other parts of Canada, it’s the doctrine teachers embody in their practice and in their classrooms. But we now find ourselves in…
Struggling to Keep Your Children Engaged in Remote Learning? Focus on Teaching Life Skills Instead
Last week, I posted some resources for parents who are looking to introduce a school-day type structure into their kids’ days, should they be ready. This week, I want to talk about the kids and the parents who are in a different situation…who’re struggling to cope with this new normal and who are barely making…
Resources for Parents: How Teachers Structure Their Lesson Plans and Day Plans (Daily Subject Schedule) for One Full Week
As teachers are expected to teach the local provincial curriculum (here, that’s the Ontario Curriculum for Elementary and Secondary grades), teaching is very intentional; teachers take great care in structuring their lessons so they evoke student learning. To help them organize the flow of the lesson so it progressively goes from simple to complex, and…
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