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The ideal classroom works as a team versus a group, dedicated to individual performance while committed to communicating and working together towards a common goal. Creating that kind of environment requires a camaraderie that empowers students to get involved through collaborating and communicating with their peers. The following games can serve as ice-breakers, brainstorming sessions,…
10 Team-Building Games For A Friendlier Classroom Purpose: 10 Team-Building Games for a Friendlier Classroom is a fantastic resource for developing relationships and a positive tone in the classroom. Audience: Grades 3-8 What’s Included? Included are 10 team-building games to get you started towards a friendlier, more positive classroom. Team-Building Game Names 1. Name Juggling…
Because their teacher is progressive and student- centered, Mrs. Jennings’ class is doing a Genius Hour project, and each student gets to choose a project to work on. Based on the following clues about their work and personalities, match each student up with a project using inference and deductive reasoning. What’s included: 1 Logic Puzzle…
The purpose of this product is to help students understand and use reading strategies to make sense of a text. A ‘reading strategy’ is anything that a reader does to understand what they are reading. It can be as simple as reading more slowly, and as complex as making judgments about the idea organization of…
Critical literacy begins in being able to decode a text and then analyze it for meaning, implicit and explicit themes, and the relationship of a text to a given perspective, author’s purpose, and related text and media. Critical literacy is about a text and the motives of the people behind the text, and understanding how…
The implication of a question is that the student should have some kind of answer. Although there is value in ‘knowing,’ there is lasting power in inquiry because it’s a student-centered and self-sustaining process. ‘I don’t know,’ then, isn’t just a starting point for finding an answer or a ready-made template for some academic essential…