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Memory Strategies for Low-Achieving Students

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These guidelines are from my 7-page article, Memory Strategies to Help Students Remember what they See and Hear in the Classroom . Short memorizing rehearsals are more productive than longer ones. Make sure that each practice is no longer than 30 minutes at a time. It is better to have five weekly rehearsals of 30 minutes each than one longer weekly practice (e.g. three or more hours in a row). Memory improves when students use multiple sensory pathways to learn the material. For example, when students are learning visual material, they need to elaborate verbally on what they are seeing. On the other hand, if students are trying to consolidate verbal material, for example, from the history textbook, memorization is easier if they draw a diagram or write smaller bits of information on index cards that they can study visually. When the learning material is both meaningful and organized is always easier to remember. When studying, children need to use organization aids such as t...

Behavior Management Tips 3: Task Orientation / Education World

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Behavior Management Tips 3: Task Orientation / Education World

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Behavior Management Tips 2: Parent and Student Involvement / Education World

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Behavior Management Tips 1 / Education World

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How To Handle Students Who Play Around In Time-Out — Smart Classroom Management

To read the article, click on the link. How To Handle Students Who Play Around In Time-Out — Smart Classroom Management A Call to All Teachers: Proudly announcing our new group for educators worldwide, “ We Teach the World .” Our aim is to connect teachers and related school personnel all over the world, so that we can share much-needed ideas, strategies, and lesson plans as well as all kinds of resources in classroom management and in student discipline. Coordinating our effort worldwide, we can tell each other where to find important resources and information. If you administer a teaching blog or have created educational resources to facilitate our job, you are welcome to share them here. As long as they contribute to education, we want to know of your business. Teachers with questions, post them here; mentors and seasoned teachers, your valuable experience and unique perspective matter to us, so make your voices heard. Because isolated, we teachers are imaginative, resour...

Creating a Positive Classroom Environment / slideshare.net

To read this article, click on the link: Creating a Positive Classroom Environment A Call to All Teachers: Proudly announcing our new group for educators worldwide, “ We Teach the World .” Our aim is to connect teachers and related school personnel all over the world, so that we can share much-needed ideas, strategies, and lesson plans as well as all kinds of resources in classroom management and in student discipline. Coordinating our effort worldwide, we can tell each other where to find important resources and information. If you administer a teaching blog or have created educational resources to facilitate our job, you are welcome to share them here. As long as they contribute to education, we want to know of your business. Teachers with questions, post them here; mentors and seasoned teachers, your valuable experience and unique perspective matter to us, so make your voices heard. Because isolated, we teachers are imaginative, resourceful and resilient, but connected, c...

Free eBook: School Help: A Teacher and Tutor Guide to Help the Older Student with Limited Word Reading Fluency

"School Help: A Teacher and Tutor Guide to Help the Older Student with Limited Word Reading Fluency" is now FREE on my Kindle Store. Hurry! This promotion ends December 6th, 2013. To download your copy, click on this link: Amazon.com: School Help: A Teacher and Tutor Guide to Help the Older Student with Limited Word Reading Fluency eBook: Carmen Y. Reyes: Books NEW! Free or Cheap Books, Worksheets and Lesson Plans for Teachers Finding all kinds of FREE or cheap resources for teachers – Including books, guides, articles, worksheets, checklists, rubrics, lesson plans, and plenty more! Like our FACEBOOK PAGE here to start receiving these unique teaching resources.

Four Tips to Stay at the Top of Your Game | ASCD Inservice

To read, click on this link: Four Tips to Stay at the Top of Your Game | ASCD Inservice NEW! Free or Cheap Books, Worksheets and Lesson Plans for Teachers Finding all kinds of FREE or cheap resources for teachers – Including books, guides, articles, worksheets, checklists, rubrics, activities, projects, lesson plans, and plenty more! Like our FACEBOOK PAGE here to start receiving these unique teaching resources.

Five Classroom Rules / Whole Brain Teaching

To read article, click on this link:  Five Classroom Rules A Call to All Teachers: Proudly announcing our new group for educators worldwide, “ We Teach the World .” Our aim is to connect teachers and related school personnel all over the world, so that we can share much-needed ideas, strategies, and lesson plans as well as all kinds of resources in classroom management and in student discipline. Coordinating our effort worldwide, we can tell each other where to find important resources and information. If you administer a teaching blog or have created educational resources to facilitate our job, you are welcome to share them here. As long as they contribute to education, we want to know of your business. Teachers with questions, post them here; mentors and seasoned teachers, your valuable experience and unique perspective matter to us, so make your voices heard. Because isolated, we teachers are imaginative, resourceful and resilient, but connected, connected we are imagin...

Alternative Teaching Techniques and Methods for Low-Achieving Students | Scribd

To see this collection (20+ articles), click on this link: Alternative Teaching Techniques and Methods for Low-Achieving Students | Scribd A Call to All Teachers: Proudly announcing our new group for educators worldwide, “ We Teach the World .” Our aim is to connect teachers and related school personnel all over the world, so that we can share much-needed ideas, strategies, and lesson plans as well as all kinds of resources in classroom management and in student discipline. Coordinating our effort worldwide, we can tell each other where to find important resources and information. If you administer a teaching blog or have created educational resources to facilitate our job, you are welcome to share them here. As long as they contribute to education, we want to know of your business. Teachers with questions, post them here; mentors and seasoned teachers, your valuable experience and unique perspective matter to us, so make your voices heard. Because isolated, we teachers are ...

Keeping Kids "Above the Line" / Education World

Education World: Keeping Kids "Above the Line"

Free Lesson Plan: Adding Emotions to Your Story / Learn NC

Adding emotions to your story

Changing the Behavior Patterns of a Negative Identity Student / Calstatela

Changing the Behavior Patterns of a Negative Identity Student

Nice Ways to Gain Compliance/ Behavior Advisor

classroom behavior management and phrasing

Getting to Know Your Habitually Disruptive Student: Questions that Open the Door to Communication

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What follows is a list of questions that you can ask children to learn about their preferences, opinions, beliefs, and experiences. If your students can manage this task independently, ask for their written answers. For a child with weaker writing and expressive skills, have him or her answer the questions orally while you write notes for future reference. Alternatively, just ask one or two questions at a time, and take mental notes. This “ All About Me” kind of activity helps in bonding with children and in building rapport. More specifically, these questions can be great “door openers” to start a conversation and/or to move a conversation that is “stuck” because the child refuses to talk. To download this activity as a reproducible, click here . 1.      What is your favorite color? 2.      What is your favorite holiday? 3.      What is your favorite TV show? 4.      Who is your favorite frien...

Choices for Children by Alfie Kohn

Choices for Children

Transformation Begins With Reflection: How Was Your Year? | Edutopia

Transformation Begins With Reflection: How Was Your Year? | Edutopia

Three Things to Do When You Have a Bad Day Teaching/Hub Pages

Three Things to Do When You Have a Bad Day Teaching

15 Reasons Teachers are Great - Teaching.com

15 Reasons Teachers are Great - Teachingcom