Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Talk about attention-getting… …check out the street sign in my blog pic here. I found it posted at the corner of two halls in a school where I recently…
Sign On to a Road Show for Teaching!
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Swap-ortunities for Learning
Hi! The Attentionology Traveler has discovered another concept that teachers can apply in classrooms around the world… …Set up SWAP-ORTUNITIES for students! What’s a SWAP-ORTUNITY? It’s an OPPORTUNITY to make exchanges, patterned after retail campaigns that encourage shoppers to bring in…
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The Attentionology Traveler on Site Tour
Hi! The Attentionology Traveler’s on the road again… …skipping along to the music of clicking and tapping – – the click, click of a mouse moving through cyberspace – the tap, tap, tap of keystrokes touring across a magical online world.…
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Activities with Eye-Catching Books
Hats off to teachers…it’s time for Mid-Week Focus to open a page on the fun and function of ACTIVITIES with EYE-CATCHING BOOKS! Ask kids which is more eye-catching…something BIG or something small and most will answer BIG! Maybe BIG isn’t always…
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Put a Mask on Creative Learning!
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! When was the last time you wore a mask? Ever put a mask on learning? Masks are age-old and universal tools for transforming children and adults into characters they…
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Attracting Attention with Alliteration
Hats off to teachers…It’s time for Mid-Week Focus to explore the fun and function of ATTRACTING ATTENTION with ALLITERATION! It’s a sound idea. Words written or read aloud in sequence with the same beginning sound catch kids’ ears. What’s your favorite…
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Third Anniversary Wishes
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Attentionology is celebrating its third anniversary this month as an international education and enterprise blog. Thanks for visiting. I like to think of myself and my Attentionology readers as a…
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A Show of Hands
Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! In my corner of the world Daylight Savings Time has just begun, marking the near start of spring. I love the resulting longer hours of sun in the afternoon…
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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.
