Hats off to teachers…it’s time for Mid – Week Focus! Mid-Week Focus is all about quick and easy ways to approach teaching to keep kids on task in any instructional setting. Let’s share insight and practical ideas. Let’s blend fun…
Monthly Archives: November 2012
The Magic Hat – Mid-Week Focus – Good News!
Tagged with: A+ for Good News online and in print media, Batson Group Marketing and PR, Bulletin Boards featuring student work, community-minded teachers, controlling online presence, Eileen Batson, Literary, Mid-Week Focus, publicizing students achievements, Sending school news out online, tips for writing online press releases
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
Coach, Teach, Reach!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! How many kids in your class love sports? I’m guessing the numbers are “off the chart.” Sports seasons come and go – basketball, tennis, football, soccer, for example –…
Tagged with: how sports develop character, how teachers can bond with kids, kids' affinity for structured activities, lesson plans with sports themes, making world connections, multi-disciplinary, sports as teaching tools and tricks, student-directed lesson plans, teachers as coaches, timed writing exercises, turning K - 5 kids into team members, using kids' love of sports to motivate learning, world sports
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers
The Attentionology Traveler
Hi! Ever thought about the many ways that teachers can travel? Through the magic of technology, the world really is at our fingertips! TV Channel-surfing last night, I happened on a major US network news feature about children’s fascination with…
The Magic Hat – Mid-Week Focus – Helping Kids Cope
Hats off to teachers…it’s time for Mid – Week Focus! Mid-Week Focus is all about quick and easy ways to approach teaching to keep kids on task in any instructional setting. Let’s share insight and practical ideas. Let’s blend fun…
Tagged with: coping through the power of happy memories, developing abstract thinking skills, empowering children, encouraging kids to express feelings, games that chase worries away, helping children cope with difficulties, Literary, magic hat tricks for kids in school, strategies that release pent-up feelings
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
EXTRA Attention-Getters
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Do your students sometimes race through their work like mine TRY to do? I wrote the word TRY because I make a point to explain to kids in my…
Tagged with: activities to promote research, Bulletin Board Ideas for K-5 Teachers, commanding extra attention, competing in a global market, E is for EXTRA EFFORT, encouraging extra student effort, managing under pressure in school, multi-disciplinary, teaching kids to elaborate in writing, Universal Children's Day, using classroom rewards
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Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers
The Magic Hat – Mid-Week Focus – Encouraging Kindness
Hats off to teachers…it’s time for Mid – Week Focus! Mid-Week Focus is all about quick and easy ways to approach teaching to keep kids on task in any instructional setting. Let’s share insight and practical ideas. Let’s blend fun…
Tagged with: benefits of positive emails to K-5 parents, developing good character traits, encouraging kindness in children, expressions about kindness in all languages, helping children with special needs, holiday programs to help less fortunate people, Make a Kindness Bulletin Board, practicing kindness, teach kids a kindness "cheer", tools and tricks that promote kindness, using a stuffed animal as a kindness mascot
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Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
Musical Tricks to Help Kids Learn!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Ever find yourself tapping a nearby object to the beat of music around you the way I found myself tapping the steering wheel yesterday to the beat of a…
Tagged with: children's games with music, Creating new words to command attention, Developing children's audio skills, Exercises with music for kids, history of musical instruments, History of Taps, John Phillip Sousa, music, music as an international language, music catches and keeps attention, musical tricks to help kids learn, Personification using sound, Teaching math through music
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Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers
Engage Students with Dialog Beyond Stories!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! I read a fascinating article recently about an American educator, Jane Vella, who developed an approach dubbed “dialogue education.” I’m not “talking” about story writing or telling in this…
Tagged with: catching attention with surprises, cornucopias with writing prompts, Educator, engaging students in dialog, Global Education Partners, Google Translation tool for teachers, harvest time activities, Jane Vella, Learning verses Teaching, multi-disciplinary, using multiple languages to teach
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Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers
The Attentionology Traveler
Hi! I spent some time yesterday with a powerful attention catcher – keeper… A PUPPET. I pulled a puppet, Little Bear, from a (pretend) nap inside a golden gift bag at a Poetry Party I brought to 100 first grade…
Tagged with: Attention catchers and keepers, children feel free to talk with puppets, magical teaching power of puppets, puppets as teaching tools, question-answer format for teaching, setting the stage for learning, teachers' pals, teaching Spanish, using puppets with no theater background
Posted in The Attentionology Traveler
Posted in The Attentionology Traveler
Barbara Cleary has been serving as a resource to hundreds of educators for more than 25 years.
An award-winning writer, producer, teacher, and trainer, Barbara’s focus is on offering easy, fun tools and tricks that support K-5 curricula and assist teachers with classroom management.
