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Guide to the Best Teaching Aids

  With students constantly distracted by social media, tablets and phones, the right teaching aids are an essential part of every good teacher’s toolkit. Smart Interactive Whiteboards Today, interactive whiteboards are a world away from where they were even two years ago. You can certainly do all the usual tricks – like write digital notes

The Value of STEM Learning through Kinesthetic Tools

  By Amy Fuller-Belding Watching children of all ages engaged in their natural curiosity is exciting. It is as if you can see the wheels of learning turning and developing simultaneously. Engaged learning varies from successful stacking of storage containers to creating an animal made of clay to reaching a target with the fishing pole.

10 Types of Visual Aids for Learning

  By Sara McGuire Visual aids for learning can have a huge impact on how students retain information. While words can be abstract and hard to retain, visuals tend to be more concrete and easier to recall. Plus, when information is presented visually, it’s a lot more engaging! Visual aids for learning can also expand

Creating Interactive Bulletin Board Displays with Students

  In addition to adding color to a classroom, defining classroom goals and policies, and showcasing student work, bulletin boards can be interactive teaching tools. Bulletin boards can be “another teacher” in your classroom. Bulletin board displays that change periodically to reflect new lessons help visual learners better understand new material, reinforce new words and

Assistive Listening Makes Outdoor Learning Accessible 

  By Sam Nord Sometimes a change of scenery really does make a positive difference. During the pandemic, many schools moved lunch periods, classes, and meetings outdoors to provide better ventilation and more space for teachers and students to gather. While administrators’ primary intentions in moving events outside may have been to keep people physically

From Teacher-Focused to Student-Centered Learning

  By Stephanie Standley Traditional classrooms were designed around the lecturer with the chalkboard as the focal point. Rows and rows of neatly aligned desks created a comforting and predictable order. This arrangement cut down on chit chat and established routine. Rules, well, ruled. Classrooms typically had a structured approach that reflected the goals of

5 Tips for Finding Your Best Uniform Provider

  By Gary Goldberg The use of school uniforms has been on the rise. According to the most recent National Center for Education Statistics, between 2000 and 2017, the number of schools requiring uniforms climbed 8%, for a total of 20% of U.S. schools requiring uniforms for the 2017-2018 school year. In strictly business terms,

Huddle Spaces: Changing How Teachers Manage a Classroom

  By Bari Gersten The pandemic has transformed the way we work and learn. As educators who are committed to preparing students to enter the workforce, it makes sense that the way we teach has also changed since the pandemic. The past 18 months have reinforced the need for every student to have their own

Flexibility: The New Movement in Classroom Design

  By Melissa Potter Reminiscing about the first days of kindergarten or elementary brings that familiar song back, the one that includes this line: “…we’re all in our places with bright shining faces.” What a difference a few decades have made. As classroom teachers and instructional leaders have planned for the opening of schools in

How Schools in Motion Drive Engaged Learning

  By Dr. Dieter Breithecker Learning, working, and living spaces have a long-term impact on our physical, mental, and social well-being. This underscores the important role spaces and furnishing play in meeting our basic physiological needs. As humans, we come equipped with highly specialized sensory organs (like eyes and ears), and those which are located
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