The Positive Classroom: Emotional Skills

The Positive Classroom: Emotional Skills:           The children who have so much trouble behaving in school often need help developing emotional skills. Although many of us understa...

The Positive Classroom: Working with Children with ADHD in the classroom

The Positive Classroom: Working with Children with ADHD in the classroom:      One of the questions I get asked frequently is how to help children who have been diagnosed (or should be diagnosed) with ADHD. Since A...

The Positive Classroom: Are the Children Pushing Your Buttons?

The Positive Classroom: Are the Children Pushing Your Buttons?:        We all have our “hot buttons” that children push. Take a moment to think about the children’s behaviors that really bother you. Fo...

The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior

The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior: The education news last week in New Jersey focused on a teacher who got caught bullying a 15-year-old child. The child captured the teache...

The Positive Classroom: Staying Calm When Children Use Challenging Behavio...

The Positive Classroom: Staying Calm When Children Use Challenging Behavio...:           While discussing the acting out cycle this week, we started considering how difficult it is to stay calm when a child is violent,...

The Positive Classroom: Using Logical Consequences for Children’s Inapprop...

The Positive Classroom: Using Logical Consequences for Children’s Inapprop...: One of my students asked me this week if it was okay that she stopped a 1 st grade child from eating breakfast because she had been chatti...

The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior

The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior: The education news last week in New Jersey focused on a teacher who got caught bullying a 15-year-old child. The child captured the teache...

technology rocks. seriously.: School Signs

technology rocks. seriously.: School Signs: Just click on the printable to go to the downloadable PDF version.  You can also right click and save each image as a JPG.  If you hav...

Math-n-spire: Area & Perimeter {Math Lab on Rectangles}

Math-n-spire: Area & Perimeter {Math Lab on Rectangles}: In addition to teaching middle school math, I am also teaching high school Geometry this year. I hated Geometry when I was in school, but n...

Math-n-spire: Math Notebook {Notes}

Math-n-spire: Math Notebook {Notes}: After my post on Integers , I received a few emails and comments asking for more pictures on the "math notebook". So I've put together a ste...

Origami poesie di carta: Bialbero di Natale (multialbero)

Origami poesie di carta: Bialbero di Natale (multialbero): Nel progettare questo modello ho pensato ai bambini, quindi a qualcosa di semplice da piegare e nello stesso tempo versatile. ...

Teaching with TLC: Journal Jar

Teaching with TLC: Journal Jar: This photograph and activity is shared with permission from  Organized Christmas . I recently found a creative way to introduce chi...

The Inspired Classroom: About to Start Weather

The Inspired Classroom: About to Start Weather: In a week, my class will be moving on from the scientific method to weather. In order to activate prior knowledge (and also to ensure a...

Stuttering Foundation: 8 Tips for Educators

Stuttering Foundation: 8 Tips for Educators: Download a  PDF   of brochure. 1 .  Don’t tell the child “slow down” or “ just relax.” 2.  Don’t complete words for the child or tal...

The High-Tech Teacher: Slick Tricks for Grade Six: Writing Resource Notebook!! Hours of research and ...

The High-Tech Teacher: Slick Tricks for Grade Six: Writing Resource Notebook!! Hours of research and ...: Tell your other fourth grade teacher friends about this post! Last year, I took a class called Teaching Writing Throughout the Curriculum-...

Virginia and Charlie: Silhouette

Virginia and Charlie: Silhouette: A couple of weeks ago, I took this photo of the Camster.  I don't normally have profile shots of this kiddo, so once I saw this I starte...

Don't Miss This Critical Thinking Poster for your Class

Don't Miss This Critical Thinking Poster for your Class

Working 4 the Classroom: Classroom Anchor Charts and Posters

Working 4 the Classroom: Classroom Anchor Charts and Posters: Reading Comprehension , Writing & Language Arts Charts (and maybe a little math too) Welcome to my Anchor Chart Page.  The cha...

Happy Saints: Happy Saints Year of Faith Poster

Happy Saints: Happy Saints Year of Faith Poster: In conjunction with All Saints Day 2012, here is a free Happy Saints Year of Faith poster for everyone! Feel free to print out and displa...

Classroom Freebies Too: What's Your Attribute?

Classroom Freebies Too: What's Your Attribute?: It's no secret that kids commonly mix up edges, faces, and vertices.  But there are some secrets to helping them remember!  Click here to r...