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 with function,…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
The Magic Hat – Mid-Week Focus – Special Needs Kids
Tagged with: assisting students with physical disabilities, Benefits of outdoor play, creative tricks to teach kids with special needs, Getting Along poem by The Lovable Poet, helping children with special needs, Helping struggling students master key concepts, managing developmental disabilities, Mid-Week Focus, multi-disciplinary, Need for down-time in school, Showing love and care for kids with special needs, teaching equality, Teaching special populations, Temple Grandin, Toy tools as analogies for success in life
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
Attentionology Power Play – Personalize Communications
It’s Barbara here, The Lovable Poet, a “wordsmith” ready to help you… What’s your goal? Trying to “sell” kids on staying focused and on task in class? Working to advance your career? Strategizing to boost sales of a product or…
Tagged with: Attentionology Power Play, catching attention with surprises, customer satisfaction strategies, goal-setting, managing meetings, motivating through communication links, multi-disciplinary, power of personalized communications, Space travel, students as "customers"
Posted in Attentionology Power Play
Posted in Attentionology Power Play
Attentionology Power Play – Pay Unexpected Compliments
It’s Barbara here, The Lovable Poet, a “wordsmith” ready to help you… What’s your goal? Trying to “sell” kids on staying focused and on task in class? Working to advance your career? Strategizing to boost sales of a product or…
International Festival of Attention-Grabbers – Ohio (US)
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! As March draws near, schools in many parts of the world are preparing for testing time. The word itself – test – is enough to send some kids into…
Tagged with: behavior management strategies, benefits of peer learning and review, competing in a global market, Concept, critique of the Common Core Curriculum, importance of scaffolding for learning, increasing mindfulness in students, International Festival of Attention-Grabbers, Learning Solutions, pressure on kids in 2013, preventing test anxiety, research on elementary school tests, strategies to prepare kids for testing, test-taking skills
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, International Festival of Attention-Grabbers
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, International Festival of Attention-Grabbers
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.
