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…
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
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Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
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
The Attentionology Traveler
Hi! A change in my travel plans due to Hurricane Sandy’s approach along the east coast of the US prompted me to share another attention catcher – keeper… …POSTING SIGNS OF CHANGE along with KEY SKILLS TO MASTER in CHANGING…
Start Students’ Engines for Writing
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Last Monday’s Attentionology post presented the how-to of turning your instructional space into a classroom of the traveling story. Visit the post to review this approach to taking flight…
Tagged with: Bulletin board featuring car racing for writing, classroom-tested teaching strategies, engaging reluctant writers, helping boys that struggle with writing, Literary, mastering the writing process, relating car maintenance to writing, Steve Peha's writing resources, teachers' blogs in 100 nations, teaching kids to use power verbs, toy cars as teaching tools
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Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers
The Magic Hat – Mid – Week Focus – Writing Prompts
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…
Guest Blog: Blog On Better!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! I’m excited to introduce you to Attentionology’s first guest blogger – Alice Osborn, shown in my blog pic below. Alice is a superb writer and teacher, and one of…
The Magic Hat – Mid-Week Focus – Associative Learning
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,…
Tagged with: creative writing activities, Fall harvest rhymes, Literary, Make a Poetry Cafe Bulletin Board, power of associative learning, Rhyme-time cupcakes, Sequencing activity for grades 1 - 5, Springtime rhymes, teaching with food connections
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
Posted in Attentionology for K-5 Teachers, Mid-Week Focus
A Labor of Love!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! What made you want to be a teacher? In the course of my work, I’ve met educators and parents who knew from the time they were elementary school students…
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.
