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Lighten Your Work Load: Use Products Offering Ready-Made Lesson Plans

Leave a Comment / Educator / By Alicia Verweij

Creating new and innovative lesson plans for students can be challenging, especially when time is limited. Fortunately, some products offer ready-made lesson plans to make the job easier for teachers. These resources can benefit teachers who want to incorporate physical computing devices or cross-curricular teaching into their classrooms. The benefits of ready-made lesson plans are …

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Professional Development for Teachers

2 Comments / Educator, Leadership / By Alicia Verweij

Professional learning is an integral part of school culture and developing staff. Summer is a great time to reflect and revitalize yourself as an educator. One area that applies to both of these is professional development. Even though we know professional learning is important, a 2013 report on professional development (PD) by the National School Boards …

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Drones In K-12 Education

5 Comments / Educator / By Alicia Verweij

At the start of the new millennium, academic research identified a potential problem for students in the United States. Compared to their counterparts around the world, American students are less prepared for the modern global workforce. A multitude of studies have identified a particular shortfall in science and math-related concepts. In response to the problem, …

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Funding For Teachers in 2021

Leave a Comment / Educator / By Alicia Verweij

We have all heard the saying you can’t put a price on education, but what about the out-of-pocket classroom expenses incurred by educators each year? Great teachers are always looking for new ways to expand their instruction and engage their students. Innovative teaching is important–but it can be expensive. This requires access to funding for …

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Writing SMART Goals in Education

Leave a Comment / Educator, Leadership / By Alicia Verweij

Unprecedented challenges! A new school year is underway, and students are facing unprecedented challenges as most are having to “learn how to learn” in a whole new way. Due to the learning hurdles dictated by COVID, students have brought traditional classroom learning back into their own homes, giving a huge rise to the relatively new …

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Project Based Learning for Young Learners

Leave a Comment / Educator / By Alicia Verweij

What is Project Based Learning? Project Based Learning is not new in education. In fact, it has become quite the referenced buzz term. The question we are investigating in this article is how young should it be implemented. My answer is, AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE! The research supports my opinion. Project Based Learning (PBL) can …

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What Teachers NEED To Buy With Their Classroom Budget

2 Comments / Educator, Leadership / By Alicia Verweij

New Year, New Classroom Budget! With the start of a new school year comes new money allocated for teachers and their classroom budget. This money must be spent or it is often lost. A use it or lose it situation. Over the years I have frustratedly witnessed teachers and administrators alike hastily spending away on …

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5 Proven Reading Strategies

Leave a Comment / Educator, Leadership / By Alicia Verweij

What defines a struggling reader? When you think about teaching struggling readers, most often it is associated with students who can’t sound out words or have difficulty understanding the word they are reading. Reading skills are broad and can be one of the most difficult things to teach. Especially, if you get a student in …

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10 Most Productive Chrome Extensions for Teachers in 2020

2 Comments / Educator / By Alicia Verweij

What is a Google Chrome Extension and why teachers should use them? If you are an educator in today’s world and you aren’t using Google, you are working way too hard!! Google is an amazing teaching tool and it’s numerous extensions make it heaven on earth, especially for educators. In this article, I’m going to …

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Lighten Your Work Load: Use Products Offering Ready-Made Lesson Plans

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Funding For Teachers in 2021

What Teachers NEED To Buy With Their Classroom Budget

5 Proven Reading Strategies

10 Most Productive Chrome Extensions for Teachers in 2020

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