Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! I’ve been reading about the life and work of Reynolds Price who died on January 20 at age 77. Price was a novelist, poet, dramatist and essayist, but according…
Cracking the “Secret of Life”
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Teachers’ Attention Tricks
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! I’m always so appreciative when other teachers share their tried and true attention tools and tricks with me, and I’m happy to pass their strategies along to you here.…
Tagged with: attention techniques, instructional games, K-5 teachers, multi-disciplinary, simple teaching tools, teaching tricks
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It’s Attention Time!
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! I’m always struck by how much attention ordinary objects can bring to me as a teacher when I present them in extraordinary ways. For example, I was teaching an art class recently…
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Form an Attention Circle – Round We Go!
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! Here’s an idea for your January – schedule a day for your class to form an Attention Circle. Invite your students to take turns telling what helps them and/or…
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De-clutter to Create Attention Skills
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! For those who begin a new year when the calendar turns to January, as it soon will, it’s a good time to clean up and clean out, not just…
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Catch Attention with a Team Mascot
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! Picture this…you and your students are getting ready to review the math they’ve been learning this semester before a major test. You blink and all the kids’ eyes have turned toward…
Tagged with: drama, motivational tricks, school mascots, teaching tricks, team mascots
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Pass Me the Pineapple Please!
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! I just got back from a weekend visit to Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, site of a historic area that replicates the eighteenth century capital of a colony of diverse people who…
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Visualize, Please, Where In The World Are We?
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! I have a funny travel-related story about one of my third grade students in a school where I recently taught. For background, I should mention that I structure a week-long residency…
Tagged with: drama, K-5 teachers, power of make-believe, simple teaching tools, teaching tricks, visualization techniques
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Adapt Pop Culture for Attention
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! When I started writing this blog back in March, 2010, I made a promise to the elementary educators and others who work with elementary school-age children – my potential…
Cornucopia of Attention-Getters
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! My research and new creative work are paying off…I’ve collected and designed a cornucopia full of more great ideas that can help you catch and keep elementary students’ attention. How about an actual cornucopia as…
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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.
