tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37803148445413848012012-01-02T01:55:29.980+01:00This journal is created by a teacher for teachers and aspiring teachers. I will be sharing resources and tools that teachers like me have used to help children have fun in learning.U-teachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13507975101923363375noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780314844541384801.post-25935974918830386232008-06-22T22:09:00.004+02:002008-07-21T21:01:49.740+02:00

Assessment in my class is an ongoing process. The teacher engages students in the assessment process periodically because of the need to know their progress.The teacher uses assessment to find out if it meets the Student Learning Expectations, to improve his/her teaching strategies, and to meet the goals of the subject area that the students are being tested on.Through assessments, the teacher

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Students learn through:. teacher-directed activities that build understanding of concepts through the use of concrete materials and models- textbooks, workbooks, hands-on materials, etc.. class discussions to illicit different levels of thinking skills i.e., students are encouraged to reason and to draw conclusions. written work such as creative writing , journal writing, essays, and summaries

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What exactly can you do when the scorching heat of the sun finally invades your classroom? How do you make your children enjoy summer without making them cringe from the heat it brings? These are a few of the questions that challenge even the best of teachers when summer starts to lurk around the corner. Well, teachers need not hurry to search for some good creative activities to alleviate the

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Teachers have a profound and a positive influence on their student's achievement. They should cherish their profession and consider it a great privilege. They are looked upon as the leaders of their community. So much so that teachers must work with great dedication in the execution of their work for their students. An adage that speaks well of the big responsibility of teachers -"Teachers plant

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I have been teaching at one of the private schools in the state of California for 18 years. Inspiring my students to successfully reach their potential is as much a part of my motivation to teach as my love of learning. I grew up in a Filipino household where education, hard work and perseverance are held in high esteem. My parents have always encouraged me to pursue activities that had social,

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We are baffled as to why our children don't want to read or can't reador that maybe they could be late bloomers in reading and thus give usunnecessary worries and much more, that is suspecting them of havingsome kind of reading disability.What could have happened? We must have lost them when they started tobe curious about printed words. What happened to them from then onbecomes a parent's

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No doubt about the dictionary being a very important tool in learning. It is a tool that teaches you a lot about the structure and function of a word without a teacher. The students will learn how to find out just about anything they want to know about words: their meaning, their spelling, their syllabication, their use in sentences, their special forms, their abbreviation, their pronunciation,

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Should you get into one of those “teaching block” moments and teaching your children suddenly becomes tedious and you have that feeling that you are not getting anywhere with them: the children are not having fun with their learning and not getting the skills they need to have from your lessons, then, this could be a solution – the Interactive Learning Games. There is nothing better than to

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Objectives:1. To individualize the reading activity of each child that is tailored to his own uniqueability.2. To foster a sense of responsibility in each child by keeping track of his ownperformance as well as give him the confidence to work on his progress by himself.3. To provide a wide variety of reading materials that will uplift the child’s imagination and develop his/her reading

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Knowing the kind of intelligence our students possess, will enable us to guide them and align our instructional activities to suit their intellectual needs.Garner’s Mutltiple Intelligences Intelligence Student Behavior Instructional ActivitiesVisual/Spatial: Adept in drawing DrawingAbility to create mental images Uses the visual arts Use of visual mediaThink in images in personal expression Arts

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Objectives:To learn about the importance of the symbol of the Statue of Liberty.To recognize the effort of Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor who designed and built the Statue of Lady Liberty.To develop the skills in impersonating characters, and in delivering good speeches.Prior to this activity:The teacher has read with his/her class a selection/ article about the story of how and why the statue

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Note: The advantage of using actual coins instead of the “play coins” when introducing and learning how to count coins is that the children can actually identify the coins by their real size, weight, color and shape. The play coins are very deceiving. They are larger, lighter, and thicker.I ask my students to bring to class coins in these different denominations and they are to put each set of

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Here is Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Specific Skills that could be used to bring out the outcomes in your lessons:Taxonomy Specific Skills:Knowledge - recall define label list recite selectreproduce point out memorize namerecord define recite repeatComprehension - outline describe discuss explain identifyindicate outline recognize restate selecttranslate match tell summarizeAnalyze - arrange analyze

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Objectives:- To learn how to measure length and height in inches and feet.- To measure objects in inches, feet, and yard.- To find and measure objects that are about 1 inch, 1 foot and I yard.- To investigate inches, feet, and yard; to know the conversion of one foot in inches and one yard in feet.Materials: a ruler, yard stick, a pencil, papers, a blackboard, notebooksProcedure:Have the children

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Children want to talk about the books they read. To help them share, talk, and tell about the books they read you may want to give these activities (modify each activity to fit your class needs or meet its level) : After you read a book to your class, you may discuss it by asking your students to answer the following questions (you may want to print these questions as a hand-out or post in on a

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Objectives:- To understand the concept of multiplication using repeated addition, skip counting, groupings, and number line.- To convert repeated addition process into multiplication process and vice-versa.- To be able to give accurate counting.- To manipulate objects with precision.- To be able to work in groups.Materials: strips of paper, papers, pencil, blackboard, beans,some pieces of

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Objectives: To appreciate a given story.To express one’s feelings about the elements of a given story.Responding to a Story Read:After the teacher discusses a story with the whole class, divide it into small groups. Most students feel more comfortable sharing in the discussion in this type of groupings.Appoint a leader who will lead the discussion by reading the following questions:What part of

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Here are some special learning activities that you could use with your lessons to meet the various learning styles and needs of your students:1. Hands-on Activities which allow for much creativity and social interaction especially when they are done in groups. Within groups, cooperative learning is taking place. Through these activities the students learn to work within time limits. Students must

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I have listed here some sites that you could log on in exploring the world of science.Students will find in these sites handy research tools, such as glossaries covering volcanoes, mapping biology, and water; they can also do researches for assistance with school project ideas and for help with homework.Teachers will find lesson plans with innovative activities regarding environmental concerns,

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When communicating with parents, it is always important to remember to be very cautious with the words that we use that might have unnecessary negative implications.Here are the positive expressions to use in lieu of the negative expressions:Instead of: Mean you can say: Has difficulty getting along with othersInstead of: Lazy you can say: Can do more if they tryInstead of: Troublemaker you can

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Objectives: To get to know the characters in the story better. To give a good description of each of the important characters in the story.Getting to know the Characters:Lead a discussion on this topic by using the following questions: 1. Which character did you like the best?2. How did the author describe the character?3. Find a passage that tells you about a character’s

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This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer. She wants to see how many people get her poem. It is quite a poem. Please pass it on. (A friend has forwarded this to us through the e-mail. Please read the accompanying letter of Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor of the Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Bronx, New York. It has touched me a lot and I'd like to share it with you ) Dear

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Objectives: To appreciate an author a style of writing. To evaluate the author’s style of writing his/her storyBackground: Read a story of the author to be discussed and evaluated; read any autobiography/biography of the author (usually there is a section before or after the story introducing the author).Activity: Responding to the Author’s Style of Writing.Lead a discussion on how your students

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Objectives:1. To identify the base or root words of given words. 2. To recognize the affixes in given words. 3. To distinguish between the prefixes and suffixes. 4. To construct words using affixes. 5. To be able to give the meaning of the words by the affixes that they have.Materials: blackboard, a dictionary, ball pens, writing pad of papers, flash cards.Procedure:1. Write the word read. Have

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Next Word, Please.Objective: To increase a child’s vocabulary. Participants: classProcedure: The teacher asks the class to form a big circle around the classroom. Then, he asks one student to think of a word that starts with the last letter that he will say. Example, the teacher may say the word, “play” and points at a child; the child that is pointed at thinks of a word that starts with the

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Form a List of Words from a Given Big Word (a board game)Objective: To make a list of words from a given word.Participants: GroupsMaterials: a writing board and pieces of chalk; a list of long wordsProcedure: The teacher forms two groups and hands them pieces of chalk. Then, the teacher writes a long word on he board such as “congratulations” and asks each group to write as many words they can

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Creative Writing Story Ending Objective: To provide practice in creative writing story ending and careful listening.Participants: Groups or classMaterial: Any short interesting story.Procedure: The teacher reads a short interesting story but leaves off the ending. Then each class/group member writes the ending. The class evaluates the best ending by votes.

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Creating Original Stories Objective: To help students create original stories and to develop good communication skills.Participants: Groups of studentsMaterials: Good starters for stories Procedure: Divide the class into groups. Each group pick out from a pile of starters such as, “Once upon a time there was this poor little rich girl….” Each child takes turns by adding clearly a sentence of his/

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Recognizing SynonymsObjective: To recognize and identify synonyms; to give a pair of synonyms; to give the other pair of a given synonym.Players: Two groups of even number of participants or the whole class Materials: Flash cards that contain pairs of synonyms.Procedure:Warm-up Activity: Teacher discusses the meaning of synonyms and give some examples of them. Have the students give their own

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Here are the reading skills to develop. Use the questions to develop these skills:Details, facts: Who did what? Where? How? Why? What did he/she do?Fact or Fiction: What could happen in real life? What part is make-believe? Why?Main Idea : What happened at the beginning? What is the story mostly about? What evidence do you have?Sequence: What happened first? Next? Last?Classify/compare: What

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The children in the elementary grades love games. I am always surprised how my students respond very well to lessons I teach if a game accompanies my lessons. Here are some of the games I have used that are popular with my students. You may modify them according to your lessons and your students’ level.Sound GameObjective: To reinforce recognition of beginning consonant blends.Players: Ten or

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Here are some book report forms that you may find interesting for your students to use. Please modify them to suit your class’ needs.A discussion of the elements of a story (setting, character, plot) is necessary before attempting to ask our students to submit a book report of any kind. A Book ReportSubmitted by: ________________________________________I. Title: __________________________________

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Children love rhyming words. They would be able to learn how to read words easily if words are arranged in a rhyming pattern.When helping children to read these words, it is best for the teacher to read the words first and the children listen. Read the words by section and point at each word with your finger or a pointing stick. These words could be written on the blackboard, on a big piece of

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Objectives:To recognize and identify a paragraph.To name its components: topic, indention, main idea, and details.To identify the topic, main idea, and supporting details of a given paragraph.To give the supporting details of a given main idea.Materials:blackboard, strips of paper, hand-outs, large piece of paperProcedure/Activities:Have the children read the following short paragraph (this may

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Objectives: To motivate students to write by giving them good story starters.To encourage the students’ fantastic imagination to continue and finish a given story.It is hard for some students to start writing a story if you just ask them to develop simply by discussing or outlining or providing vocabularies that they may use. To start writing is indeed very hard especially to students in the

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One of the best ways to integrate subjects is to focus on a single theme using the thematic approach. Lessons could be made to revolve around a theme to make it more meaningful to the students and utilize more of their talents in all the different aspects of learning. It also creates avenues for teachers to be more creative and more expansive in their approach to their lessons.Wanting to enrich

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These are some "question starters” you may want to use with your children according to your teaching objectives. With these “question starters “ you are able to direct your children’s thought to the task you have in mind for them to do.Knowledge – Recalling literal informationWhere did …. Name the …..What was… Locate in the story where …Who was/were… List the ….Comprehension – Understanding what

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It is only by inspiring students to dream that we have realized our goals as teachers. In order to do so, we must to give them the tools and knowledge to make those dreams possible.I wanted to create an online journal and fill it with very good materials, ideas, and activities that will be available to many teachers for their teaching and materials that some may find useful for working on their

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