Image by ruminatrix via Flickr Welcome to the second installment of Teaching Tip Tuesdays for the 2010 – 2011 school year.  So far there are 70 tips that I hope you will find useful in the archives here. I will be adding a new tip every Tuesday.  Without further ado, here is today’s tip.  In…

Image via Wikipedia Teaching Tip Tuesdays are back. Every Tuesday, during the school year, I share with you tips, ideas, and resources that you can use in your classroom. I hope you’ve enjoyed your summer holidays. I know the students don’t start back up until next week but most teachers will be in their classrooms…

Imagine that you belong to a group of children. You all want to do something, but you can’t decide what exactly. (1) Three boys want to go on a hike. Two girls want to go to the mall. One boy thinks watching television is just fine. The last boy doesn’t seem interested in anything at…

Here is a cool art lesson that easily breaks down the Colour Wheel. I like how it uses shapes to separate the primary, secondary, and tertiary colours. I found this resource years ago online and I’m glad that I printed it out because the website is no longer there. As teachers, we cannot assume that…

This is a cool art lesson that is aimed for middle or high school students but I have used it successfully with Grade 3, 4, and 6 classes. It builds upon the techniques we touched upon last week here on Teaching Tip Tuesday. Once the students are familiar with the 5 Shading Techniques and have…

I found this great resource for teaching art a few years ago that I wanted to share with you today for Teaching Tip Tuesday. It’s an amazing website called Art Adventures and it has some great tips, tricks, and lessons on it that are very easy to follow. When I first discovered this site, I…

Here’s a cool idea for the classroom in this latest edition of Teaching Tip Tuesdays. Have your students compile their own top 40 lists of the best music of the day. Have them work in small groups, to come up with a list of songs that they enjoy. The students will then look to see if there…

I’ve tried doing Reader’s Theatre with my class several times and it has always been a disaster. Some students don’t follow along with the script well enough so we have awkward pauses, breaks, or cues. Some students are so worried about saying their lines properly that they focus only on their own part and don’t…

I’ve been extremely busy this month with work, Script Frenzy, an AQ course that I have been taking online, and other personal obligations. So today, I reworked an earlier post from a few years back. It’s a really good one that you can use to help your students make good choices in life. I hope…

I was planning on writing a piece today about using podcasts in the classroom when I came across this excellent blog post that took the idea in a different direction. I will share my ideas about crafting Radio Dramas here in an upcoming addition of Teaching Tip Tuesdays. I just wanted to point you to…