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Teaching Tips

  • Teaching Tip – Comic Strip Drama

    This is an amazing activity that I have used time and time again in the classroom. The kids really respond well to it, it doesn’t take much in the way of planning, and it can give you a quick and easy drama mark if you need one for an upcoming report card. All you need…

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  • Teaching Tip – Dramatic Poetry

    Let’s bring poetry into the classroom and let’s make it fun. I like to start off with this poem Homework! Oh, Homework! by Jack Prelutsky Homework! Oh, Homework!I hate you! You stink!I wish I could wash you away in the sink,if only a bombwould explode you to bits.Homework! Oh, homework!You’re giving me fits.I’d rather take…

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  • Teaching Tip – A Great Drama Rubric

    Who has time for drama? I have so much stuff I need to teach that I can’t afford to spend time letting the kids act out goofy little skits. Have you heard these excuses before? Have you used them yourself? I know that classroom teachers have a huge responsibility and that principals and school boards…

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  • Teaching Tip – Improvisational Stories

    I tell improvisational stories to my students every year. I like that we can have fun creating something together. The students always seem to enjoy it as well. Here’s how to do it. 1) Get the students to draw pictures. Don’t tell them why they are doing this either. Just let them know that everyone…

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  • Teaching Tip Tuesday – Twitter in the Classroom

    I found this cool document that gives you 29 ways you can use Twitter as a learning tool in your classroom. I think teachers should be embracing technology and bringing it into the classroom. I have found that the students respond really well to it. That is why I hope you will look at this…

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  • Teaching Tip Tuesdays – A.P.E. (guest post)

    Hello Chase March’s loyal readers. This is a guest post from Cottam Country. I currently teach Gr. 3/4 language arts and math as well as a variety of rotary subjects. Our school has been an “OFIP” (Ontario Focussed Intervention Program) school, which has meant that the teachers have been engaged in intensive professional development for…

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  • Teaching Tip Tuesdays – Black History Month

    I came across this great site last week that I wanted to share with you for Teaching Tip Tuesday. Debbie DeSpirt has written quite a few articles and lesson plans that will appeal to primary school teachers. http://www.suite101.com/writer_articles.cfm/chokurei I like her lesson for Black History Month and how it deals with some of the every…

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  • Teaching Tip Tuesdays – Letter Writing

    Hilary gave me a great idea last week. She wrote a post about the history of mailboxes. I commented that I couldn’t remember the last “actual letter” that I had mailed. I’m not talking about sending off bill payments, or cards. I mean an actual letter. She answered my comment and stated that “a real…

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  • Teaching Tip Tuesday – Get the Parents On Side

    Last week, we discussed The 6 Key Elements that Great Teachers Possess and it was a real eye-opener for me. I knew that I wasn’t doing enough in the way of communication between home and the school. I’d tried and tried and tried. I’d banged my head against the wall time and time again. And…

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  • The Key Elements Great Teachers Possess

    What Makes a Great Teacher by Amanda Ripley is a great article that really dissects the key elements that great teachers possess. 1) “First, great teachers tended to set big goals for their students.” I agree. I think this is the key to teaching. We need to expect each and every student in our classes…

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