One of the most effective strategies to defeat procrastination that we have used with students in our A+ Club academic program is what the procrastination experts call “just getting started.” As posted in “Beating back procrastination pt 1,” the benefits of “getting started” include: Breaking down / overcoming barriers to work Identifying needs & concerns Identifying … Continue reading Beating back procrastination part 2: smoothing out your workflow→
At the A+ Club we often hear from parents that their child is struggling in math. Sometimes it’s, “she never does well in math” or “he does his math homework but scores poorly on quizzes and tests.” Why students struggle in math: guided v independent practice empowered by feedback from The A+ Club on Vimeo. … Continue reading Help for students struggling with math: “guided” v “independent” practice→
One of my classroom management tricks was to keep a set of audio files in my computer task bar to express some emotion or reaction to by or for the students. The kids loved these, and it always drove engagement in whatever the topic. A couple sound clip examples I used are: A quick link to the source … Continue reading Tips for Teachers: a quick & easy voice narrator for reading digital text out load→
Parents and teachers usually conceive of student procrastination as putting off homework or projects until the last minute. It is. We also tend to think of disruptive classroom behavior as “disobedience” or “acting out” over some issue, from disconnection or boredom to serious underlying troubles. Which it is. But those same processes of delay and … Continue reading Procrastinating in class: is classroom behavior a form of procrastination?→
Even if you’ve never heard of OneNote, you probably already own it. And if you do, you already own one of the best organizational tools out there. Today’s Tip for Teachers is how to use OneNote, a free program from Microsoft that is a potential game-changer for teachers. What One Note Solves for Teachers Paperwork … Continue reading Tips for Teachers: How to use OneNote for total organization and teacher efficiency→
The School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published an article on how parents can manage their child’s procrastination by Michael Bromley of School4Schools.com LLC in “Parenthetical” magazine: Parenting Procrastinators School’s just starting up, so the last thing any of us want to think about are the grades that come at the end of … Continue reading Parenting Procrastinators→
Every teacher’s goal is student engagement, both in and out of class The more our students act on our lessons and expectations outside of class, the better they function in class. Nothing new there. And the difficulty to achieve it in part explains the annual Professional Development (PD) flogging with the latest, greatest solution to … Continue reading How teachers can use WordPress blogging to enhance student engagement→
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