A smile is a frown turned upside down Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! Is it just me or have there been a frightening number of major natural disasters in a relatively short period of…
What’s Cookin’?
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! Hungry for some more tools and tricks to catch and keep K – 5 students’ attention? Hope so, because this week’s blog offers some tasteful ideas. Read on… No…
Modeling Creativity for Attention
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! Pelting rain is drenching the windows near my desk as I write this week’s blog in the middle of a thunderstorm on the last day of February. What an attention-getter…
Education Creed Includes Attention-ology
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! I had the pleasure of working recently in the classroom of a veteran fifth grade teacher who has written a Philosophy of Education Creed. Writing the creed, she explained…
Tagged with: education philosophy, educators' creed, K-5 teachers, multi-disciplinary, positive reinforcement, teaching tricks
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Attention-Getting Words
Hi and welcome back to Attention-ology for K – 5 Teachers! Actually, that welcome back extends to me…didn’t post my weekly blog last Monday (and I missed doing so!) because I had a family EMERGENCY. Now, there’s a word that…
Cracking the “Secret of Life”
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…
Tagged with: K-5 teachers, life lessons, multi-disciplinary, pre-writing tools, Reynolds Price, teaching tricks
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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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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…
Tagged with: circular activities, happiness-makers, K-5 teachers, multi-disciplinary, simple teaching tools, teaching tricks
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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…
Tagged with: K-5 teachers, multi-disciplinary, organization skills, resolutions to pay attention, teaching tricks
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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…
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.
