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5 tips for packing up your classroom

May 20, 2021 By Rachel Vincent

tips for packing up your classroom

These 5 tips for packing up your classroom will save you so much time next fall when it’s time to unpack. You may be tempted to shove everything in a box or closet. However, your future self will thank you later. Plus you have a classroom full of students right now that can help! Tip… Read More

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First Year Teacher Must Haves

April 15, 2021 By Rachel Vincent

First Year Teacher Must Haves

First-year teacher must-haves are the #1 things new teachers ask about. That’s kind of a loaded answer because it always brings up questions…like what grade are you teaching? What does your school give you? What will your students bring? Often times we don’t know all those answers, especially if we’re brand new or new to… Read More

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Tips for Donors Choose

April 1, 2021 By Rachel Vincent

Tips for Donors Choose

Wh When a Donors Choose project is funded, it’s the best feeling! Here are a few tips for your next Donors Choose project. Donors Choose is a website that allows people & companies to donate to public school projects. If you’ve never used Donors Choose before, there are several tutorials online on how to set… Read More

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Teacher Sunday Routine

March 18, 2021 By Rachel Vincent

Teacher Sunday Routine

As a teacher, my Sunday routine used to be one of two things. I would either work on school stuff all day long or I would do absolutely nothing to prepare for the week. I was either burned out before the week began or I was stressed out because I didn’t get anything ready. I’ve… Read More

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Why Fostering Student Ownership is Important

March 4, 2021 By Rachel Vincent

Fostering student ownership

One of the goals of teaching is fostering student ownership in the classroom. This can look different from classroom to classroom.  Ultimately we want to move students from being dependent on us to be able to do things independently. Class Jobs that give students ownership Allowing students to have ownership in the classroom through class… Read More

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6 Picture Books for Upper Elementary

February 18, 2021 By Rachel Vincent

Picture Books for Upper Elementary Classrooms

Picture books for upper elementary students are perfect to use during mini-lessons to cover a variety of standards. I personally love using picture books to teach those upper elementary literacy-based standards.  I also love using picture books to motivate my students to read a variety of books. The following picture books are perfect books to… Read More

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How long is your students’ attention spans? I o How long is your students’ attention spans?
I only have about 10 minutes before I lose them! 🤪
And I don’t know about you but my lessons are typically longer…so I try to mix it up every 10 minutes with a Think-Pair-Share or some kind of movement
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6 ways to get your students participating in your 6 ways to get your students participating in your lessons!
1️⃣ Think Time - giving your students time to think about the answer keeps your over achievers from answering all the questions 
2️⃣ Movement - Stand/Sit if this is your answer
3️⃣ Turn & Talk - Everyone shares their answer with a partner
4️⃣ Hand Signals - Perfect for multiple choice questions
5️⃣ Think-Pair-Share - Combines the think time with turn & talk 
6️⃣ Repetition - repeat important information to help it stick
🗣🗣Which number are you trying this week?!
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Do you have these 4 teacher goals?! 1️⃣ Instr Do you have these 4 teacher goals?!
1️⃣ Instructional Goal - How are you improving your instruction?
2️⃣ Relationship Goal - How are you building relationships with students or coworkers?
3️⃣ Balance Goal - How are you trying to have a better work-life balance?
4️⃣ Non Instructional Goal - What other area are you trying to improve?
Here’s my 4 goals!
1. Vocabulary Instruction 
2. 2 Positive Notes a Week
3. Leave by 3:00 3 out 5 days
4. Clean off back counter once a week
What are your goals?
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Coming back from break is a lot easier than the fi Coming back from break is a lot easier than the first day of school!
Less teacher talk 🗣
More student talk 👥
1️⃣ Give your students time to catch up with each other. Even adults like to chit chat about what we did during break!
2️⃣ Review procedures by playing a fun game. Charades is a great way to act out procedures to see if other students can guess what they’re doing!
3️⃣ The halfway point of the school year is a great time for students to set goals!
What’s your favorite thing to do after a break?!
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