elementary teaching

Join the JLFT Crew as we have our first guest on the show! Megan is a first year Elementary Art teacher with a plethora of knowledge in art education. Art can be difficult to incorporate into the general education classroom due to the high math and reading state standards. Listen and learn with us as we discuss the impacts and benefits of having an elementary art program in schools. Teaching is hard, and Elementary is no exception. Listen as we learn from Megan about the importance of art education programs for our youngest learners in a system that doesn’t always make art a priority.  #teacherpodcast #teachers #arteducation

 

Too often, adults get stuck being a mediator between their kids when a conflict comes up.  But what if kids could follow three simple steps to solve their problems without the help of adults? That is possible with the ultimate problem-solving tool. The Thinking Mat! Check it out at www.thinkingmats.com.  The creator, Christina Torres, joins us today to tell us all about it. 

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Classroom library woes? Figuring out how to organize your classroom library is harder than we imagine it will be. There are so many decisions to be made and each one changes how our class library functions. 

Don't get bogged down in decision fatigue. In this episode, I have all my tips to break down the decision-making process to help you make a plan for your classroom library that will actually work.

Listen in to find out more!

Don't forget to check out all the resources, and grab the Classroom Library Organization Cheat Sheet. It's all in the show notes!

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I know you practice scaffolding when teaching, but do you know you're doing it?

What is scaffolding instruction? Scaffolded teaching is when we use various techniques to support students in their learning and then gradually move them toward independence.

In this episode, I have nine types of scaffolds for teaching including ways for scaffolding instruction for English language learners. 

Listen in to find out more!

Don't forget to check out all the resources, and grab the Scaffolds for Instruction Cheat Sheet. It's all in the show notes!

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If you’re paying attention….this is the 100^th episode of The Teach Joyfully Podcast. Wow! Where does the time go?!

Today's episode is all about how to use task cards in the classroom. I love ideas, activities, and lessons that we, as teachers, can use over and over again. They aren’t one and done, but reusable. Task card activities are exactly that - something you can use for any subject or concept over and over again. There are tons of uses and ways to use them.

In fact, the possibilities for learning with task cards are endless! What’s not to like about that?!

In this episode find out:

• What are task cards and why they're helpful
• 7 different uses for task cards in your classroom
• 11 practical ideas for task cards that will fit right in with your teaching

Don't forget to check out all the resources, and grab the freebie Task Card Printable. It's all in the show notes!

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How do you inspire your students to actually do summer reading?

Once summer hits, kids' schedules go haywire and all bets are off when it comes to practicing reading and other skills. Honestly, I never did summer homework as a kid. But, I did read. A lot. Why? Well, I was a committed reader. I learned to love books and reading early on. 

But, how do we inspire our students and their families to keep the reading going all summer? In today's episode, I have a few tips for you.

Don't forget to check out all the resources and grab the FREE Million Words Reading Challenge. It's all in the show notes!

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Are your students confident in using text features when reading [and discussing] nonfiction texts?

If we're honest, we KNOW most students skip over the text features when reading nonfiction. Whether your students don't know what to do with them or feel like it's one more thing to do or the text features feel disjointed or separate from the text, it's clear many students don't know when and why [much less how] to use to the text features. 

Obviously, today's episode is all about understanding text features and reading nonfiction texts effectively.

Listen in to find out more [and don't forget to grab the Nonfiction Reading Strategies Poster] in the show notes!

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Classroom Management and training your class in your expectations and systems is never a "one-and-done" process. I know you understand that, but it's easy to forget to reset or retrain your students throughout the year. 

Even your car needs a tune-up once in a while, why don't we remember to do the same for our classroom procedures? Perhaps you know someone who is resisting doing this. I've seen it before... teachers who think retraining seems like a lot of time when they have so little or they're stubbornly insisting their students know what to do so they should just do it, or some other reason. Whatever the reason, it's a lie. It's definitely time for a tune-up even if things are running well.

Today is all classroom management and about what to retrain and how to retrain your students.

Listen in to find out more [and don't forget to grab the free Power Phrase Worksheet [and check out the Playground Packet] in the show notes!

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Let's chat about teaching students to write by hand using both printing and the much-debated cursive. In our digital world, students physically write less and less every year and it turns out, that's a huge problem for their brains. 

Here's the skinny...a recent study by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that physically writing created the best learning and memory of the material being studied. And that, as they say, is just the tip of the iceberg...

Listen in to find out more [and don't forget to grab the free Crossing the Midline Guide in the show notes]!

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