Can fluorescent light covers contribute to student success? Headaches, sore eyes, vision fatigue, stomach aches, and stress are familiar complaints teachers and parents hear from students every day. Often the cause is the glares and flickering emitted from the overhead fluorescent lights. Kids aren’t the only ones affected; parents and teachers also suffer from harsh…
The perfect teacher desk is the desk that works best for you; it complements the grade you teach, your teaching style, and the classroom furniture. Some teachers prefer sitting at a traditional desk while others like a standing desk. After spending hours researching the best desks for teachers, our editor’s pick is the Lorell Double…
Music teaches kids lots of skills. Learning to play music requires commitment and discipline and if you splash out on an instrument, you need to know your child is going to put time and effort into practicing their skills. Children can learn rhythm, beat, pattern recognition, and even math from music. Musical instruments for kids…
With the touch of a button, some enthusiasm, and the help of products and services like web mapping APIs, any student can create gorgeous maps. Whether the school project requires building a U.S.-location map or a global history project, interactive data visualizations help students understand the complete picture. Most mapping tools feature a way to…
It’s incredible how a tessellation design transforms a blank piece of paper into an exciting and beautiful design. Creating tessellations is for all ages and more straightforward than it looks. Art and math teachers use tessellations in their lessons, art projects, and inspiring STEAM-related exercises. There is even a World Tessellation Day on June 17. …
Teachers and students use class videos as a tool for lectures and homework assignments. Flipped classrooms student video projects, and lecture recording for virtual learning are essential to the blended learning model. With over 40 million Chromebooks used in education, it’s vital to know the apps available and how to record your screen. Which Chrome…
The flipped classroom is an education model that sort of happened naturally. In 2007, two chemistry teachers at Woodland Park High School in Colorado, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, discovered flipping that would impact traditional teaching models. They found a software program that solved the dilemma of getting material to students who missed class. Jonathan…
In today’s world, everyone needs to know how to screencast. It used to be the realm of sales departments or human resources that needed to master sharing their screen with others. But in today’s environment, teachers and other education professionals must wear the hat of a content creator to teach effectively. Screencasting is an excellent…
Classroom quotes can inspire, be funny, motivate, teach, and make children think about the meaning of words; it can change kids’ lives. We created a list of inspiring classroom quotes for all grades. Many are from famous people and many ideas you’ve seen on classroom wall posters before. We grouped the classroom quotes into categories…
Generally, teachers don’t expect gifts. Teachers care about children and want to educate them in preparation for the world beyond school. That’s enough of a reward for most educators. That said, your student’s teacher is awesome! This past school year has been trying for everyone – students, parents and teachers alike. So you want to…
Every teacher knows how effective a bulletin board is as an educational tool. Interactive bulletin boards are decorative and help students engage in activities, games, and tasks to improve their knowledge and skills. Here is a list of the best bulletin board ideas and classroom door displays for teachers to create unique bulletin boards. Our…
Creative writing prompts stimulate innovative minds and imagination. Anyone who writes, not just authors, experiences times when they can’t write a thing. Writing prompts help children and adults to overcome writers’ block. Teachers use writing prompts to stimulate students in various ways; it inspires imagination and critical thinking, problem-solving, innovative ideas, and is fun. We…
What are the best-flipped learning apps for K-12 grades in flipped classrooms? The best-flipped classroom tools can transform and remodel classroom teaching, allowing in-depth learning and personalized attention that can help learners improve their grades. The right learning platform apps and tools can produce engaging content ranging from science videos to English lessons. These tools…
It’s back to school time, again! It still feels like summer, but vacations are ending and kids are heading back to class. With school comes school supplies, and maybe a new book bag. Students are transporting a variety of tech with them each day, and this can include laptops. Rather than just shoving a laptop…
You’d be lost without it. Whether you call it a tote, bag, backpack, or rolling bag – these unsung heroes get all of the necessary pieces of your workday to and from school. Finding the best teacher bag for your style means you’ll now easily be able to find everything you need to keep your…
With all of the press surrounding the Mars Rover Curiosity’s most recent findings, it’s a perfect time for children to learn more about space exploration and the solar system. Educational space toys are a fantastic way to encourage children to learn about space and the planets and help them develop an appreciation for a much…
Math games for kids encourage children to learn and improve their essential addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills while having fun with their family or playing with other students in the classroom. The best math games are unique, simple, addictive, and have multiple variations, allowing kids to play the games over and over without getting…
It’s back to school, time to start using anchor charts as reading strategies to help students with their reading skills, and reading comprehension. Anchor charts are essential tools to support and re-iterate the lessons taught in the classroom. Although the acronym PIE (persuade, inform, entertain) are associated with an author’s purpose activity or anchor chart,…
An essential concept in mastering reading is understanding the why behind the words. What is the author trying to say? What is the motivation, the message, the intent of the literary work? The reason why the author writes a particular piece of fiction or non-fiction is called the author’s purpose. Authors choose the genre, writing…
Whether teachers teach English online, make use of teaching companies, or record lessons for their students in a classroom, a decent webcam produces a professional video outcome a teacher needs. Audio and image quality are vital features a camera should deliver. In this time of virtual classrooms it’s even more essential you get a good…
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