Author: Mrs T’s Musings
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How To Plan for Your First Parent Teacher Conferences – Parent Teacher Conference Forms and Tips
Parent Teacher Conferences. Is it just me, or does the thought of that make you nervous? Here are some tips that will help ease the pressure of your first parent teacher conferences.
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Why are Sight Words Important? Benefits of and Tips for Teaching Sight Words
I encourage you not to neglect teaching sight words to your children. When used in conjunction with a phonetic teaching approach, sight word memorisation has many benefits. In this post, I’ll focus on the benefits of teaching sight words, and share some tips for making the most of this teaching approach.
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Using Discussion Boards As One of Your Classroom Discussion Strategies to Encourage Collaboration
A discussion board is a simple and effective tool to use to help facilitate collaboration amongst students. Discussion boards remove some of the pressure of ‘on the spot’ discussions, by allowing students to first write an individual response down before verbally sharing their ideas with others. Discussion boards also give you a written sample of…
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What is Student Voice in the Classroom?
The term ‘student voice’ has been used more and more in recent years, and while most teachers can recognise its significance, it can sometimes be unclear what we’re referring to when we talk about student voice in learning. When we talk about student voice, it goes along with terms like student agency or student choice.…
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A Fun, Collaborative Group Activity to Try in Your Elementary Music Classroom
The activity featured in this blog post allows students to work as a group to create their own song, dance or rap. You can use this activity simply as a fun time-filler or to test the students’ musical knowledge, dance technique or ability to work as a team. This activity is ideal for working on…
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