What are your strategies for building trust with students who seem withdrawn or reluctant to engage?
Each student is different. Here are some ideas that I have used.
1. Go back to your beginning of the year student surveys. Find an interest of this student and build it into a lesson. Mention their name as you talk about this interest.
2. Warn this student quietly that you are going to ask them to answer the next question so they are prepared.
3. Give the student a note with a positive message or email the parent with a positive message.
4. Ask the student to help you do something to prepare for a lesson. Draw the picture. Set up the equipment. Engage the student in a conversation while you do this.
What other strategies have you tried?
What are some morning meeting activities that are low prep for a 5th grade class?
What is an effective tool that I can use in my classroom to support learning?
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How would you rate your self-efficacy skills as a teacher?
Teachers who believe in their abilities ( handling tasks, obligations and challenges) increase their level of self-efficacy.
Do you value the importance of continuous professional development?
Do you use reflection to improve your teaching practice?
Do you set attainable goals?
Do you maintain a strong academic focus throughout your lessons and provide
constructive feedback to students?
Do you demonstrate resilience and view knockbacks as temporary stumbling
blocks?
Answering yes to these questions, shows powerful predictors of a teacher’s effectiveness. Self-efficacy means believing in your ability to succeed in any situation.
My students are learning about money in 2nd grade. I teach them a strategy called hairy money to help them to learn about the value of coins. Does anyone use a different strategy to help students learn how to count money?
Does anyone have any experience with using Canva? If so what have you used it for? I have just began to use it this year. I have created sight word videos and a video about different types of measurement tools.
How do you support phonemic awareness in your classroom? What simple activities do you include with your early learners?
Answer: Sound Cubes! Sound cubes are wooden or foam colored cubes that can be used to help students manipulate the sounds in words.
What are some engaging ways to teach young students about environmental sustainability?
Celebrating Reading Month with Families! Check out all of the FREE literacy activities at: https://www.ginapepin.com/blank-10-1-1
What is an effective intervention strategy for students struggling with reading comprehension for early readers?
An effective intervention strategy for students struggling with reading comprehension for early readers includes explicit instruction that focuses on fluency. Fluency is often misunderstood as it is about the accuracy and automaticity in word recognition and prosody (meaningful expression), therefore, it includes the ability to demonstrate the understanding of the meaning of text by the way it is read aloud. Utilizing the Voice Jar (voices) and repeated readings will help students build skills necessary to become proficient readers.
Since I'm in the land of fractions right now, I thought I'd share my favorite teaching math meme! It honestly never fails! You feel like you've seen all the light bulbs go on and then this happens!
A few years ago, I got a roll of paper from Target and started writing quotes on it to post outside my door for students to read. It turns out that it wasn't just students who were reading it -- adults did too and would stop by to tell me the ways they related to do the quote. What are some ways you commit to the culture of your school?
AI may be scary at first. Actually, it is a very useful tool in the classroom. I have used AI to write poems about topics so students will have information to read across genres. A HUGE win this year has been communication. I have a student who does not speak English. I have used AI to translate worksheets, compose emails, and create activities for the student. It has been a tremendous resource in helping this student in the classroom. It cuts down on time with using a pocket translator. I can explain the directions with the translator as the student is reading in their language. It also has helped with a "side by side" analysis of words and word structures.
How do you include science in an already crowded day? Here’s one way I do it!
