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Award-winning principal Eric Sheninger shares his secrets on how to make this year the best school year yet.

Don't you wish you had a crystal ball that told you what your child's teacher felt was important for you to know? I sure do. In more than 13 years as a teacher, administrator, parent and coach working with thousands of students in New Jersey, I have dealt with almost every teacher/parent/student issue imaginable - and even I am still learning about what parents need and want from teachers. As the new school year starts, I'd like to share what I have discovered and share wisdom from some of the most innovative educators across the country. Together, let's make this the best year yet for our students.
Coaches, advisers play valuable roles, too.
I am sure you know by now how important it is to attend Back to School Night and parent-teacher conferences. These meetings are used to review course expectations, explain grading policies, distribute important documents, share contact information and discuss your child's progress.

But did you know this is also a good time to address potential problems at home that may interfere with your child's success at school, such as family illness, divorce or economic struggles? Though it may feel like oversharing, these details can help a teacher better communicate with your child. And don't just rely on teachers - get to know coaches and extracurricular advisers. These adults are role models and confidants to your child, and they are in a unique position to fill parents and guardians in on academic, social and emotional problems that arise. They could be your most valuable link to your child's personal life.
Stay in the know with social media.
How often did you tweet, post an update on Facebook, or upload an image to Instagram today? Social media and the Internet are changing the way society communicates, and many teachers are embracing new technologies as a way to engage parents. They want you to interact with them on their websites, social media spaces and blogs.

I use my blog as a forum ( esheninger.blogspot.com) to give a shout-out to the great work my teachers and students are doing. Becoming familiar with these tools will put you in a better position to monitor your child's online activity and ensure that he or she is being digitally safe. E-mail is still the preferred mode of communication for most teachers, but please be patient when waiting for messages or phone calls to be returned. In the business world, instant replies to an e-mail are common; for a teacher, it may be hours before we can check the computer. Rest assured, we will get back to you.
Change is hard but essential.
Josh Stumpenhorst, a sixth-grade English and history teacher in Naperville CUSD 203 in Naperville, Ill., wishes parents knew how hard it is to change traditional thinking about learning. Too often teachers are held back from doing what they know is best for kids because of a district, state, or federal mandate.

At his school, Stumpenhorst has made significant changes. He has helped redesign the grading scale, banned homework and even challenged the traditional roles of school administrators. "Most teachers are not willing to change because they are under so much pressure to uphold tradition and frankly they fear for their jobs," he says. The lesson: Don't be quick to judge a teacher if he/she is not teaching the way you were taught; new techniques will better prepare students for success in today's society.
We are all on the same team.
The key to student success is the ability and willingness of parents to be partners in education with teachers. When problems arise, parents should not be so quick to defend students before hearing both sides. Following the chain of command by not going over a teacher's head to an administrator goes a long way in establishing this partnership. Remember: Decisons are often made for the good of all of the students in a class, not just a particular child.

Teachers also need parents to support learning through a regular review of assigned work, due dates and grades. No, we don't need you to teach your children yourself, but we do need you to stay on top of their progress and remind them to study. This is especially important when it comes to online grades. Access to grades in real time is valuable only if parents check it frequently. (And we can see if you have logged on to the site.)
At-Home Projects are important. Really.
What is one thing that parents routinely complain about? For Amanda Dykes, a middle-school science teacher at McAdory Middle School in McCalla, Ala., it is at-home projects. Contrary to popular belief, teachers such as Dykes do not assign these to torture parents. "I assign projects a few weeks ahead of time, but students often forget about them until the weekend before," Dykes says. To make the process easier (on everyone), she advises this: When you see the project assigned, set up a timetable for your child's completion. First, if there is a choice of projects, let your child decide, even if it is not the choice you'd make. E-mail the teacher with any questions. The next week, gather materials; if it is an online project, play around with the website. Use the remainder of the time for your child to complete the project. As the due date approaches, resist the urge to step in and finish the project yourself. Though it may seem like "helping," it cheats the child out of the learning experience.
Respect goes both ways.
Principal Judith Wilson, of PS 3 in Staten Island, N.Y., knows the pressures of a new school year very well. "The expectations of a new school year are high for the students but even higher for the teacher. The teacher gets it from both ends -- from the administration and from the parents," she says.

Getting some parents to support the teacher is often an arduous task. PS 3 fifth grade teacher James Laieta speaks with candor and sincerity when he says:, "I would like to tell my parents that trust and respect go hand in hand. If they trust and respect their child's teacher, their child will reflect on this like a mirrored image!" The teacher is another caretaker in a child's life. "We provide emotional support and positive relationships that give children resilience to face new challenges," says Wilson. When students see that their parents trust us and respect us, the student will follow. "We are not the enemy, notes Laieta. "We are very often the super heroes in their child's life!"
Your words can foster a love for learning.
Research suggests that one of the best things parents can do to support a child is to help him/her develop a motivation to learn. Larry Ferlazzo, a teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, has identified three key ways to do this, supported by studies from the National Research Council and the Center on Education Policy:

* Praise effort and specific work instead of native intelligence. Try saying: "Boy, those two hours you spent working on the essay last night really paid off. I loved how you described the characters in the novel" instead of "Wow, you are a natural-born writer."

* Connect what children are studying to what is happening in their life and in the world. If he is learning about the Middle East, discuss a newspaper article about issues in that region.

* Avoid using rewards and punishments for academic work. If you give your child a dollar for every book he reads, it's less likely he will want to read books for pleasure after you stop paying him.

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Award-winning principal Eric Sheninger shares his secrets on how to make this year the best school year yet. Don't you wish you had a crystal ball that told you what your child's teacher felt was important for you to know? I sure do.

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Based on his books "Character Disturbance" and "In Sheep's Clothing," Dr. Simon explains predatory aggression and how to distinguish it from fear or anger based aggression (reactive aggression) and other other types of aggression,

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GIVING A  BOOST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf0teoZFpbs

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Kung fu punctuation

https://youtu.be/t1fNGjLkyD0https://youtu.be/t1fNGjLkyD0

Disco Dough

https://youtu.be/3K-CQrjI0uY

https://youtu.be/4u2woreEVq4

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2014/12/getting-started-using-free-plickers-for-assessment/

https://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/8-ways-to-assess-without-standardized.html

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Promoting collaboration and sharing ideas with our colleagues

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skoADYe3PHYtp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skoADYe3PHY

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Learning by topics through different projects to know more things about the world around us in a practical way.

https://www.hawthornpress.com/books/storytelling/storytelling-schools/science-through-stories/

The wonderwise
book series offers a wide range of topics to introduce the basic and most important aspects  related to sciences and social studies

www.wonderopolis.org

http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/Science-for-kids.html

https://www.geekwrapped.com/science-books-for-kids

http://switchzoo.com/

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TO HELP EACH OTHER TO BE UPDATED,YOU CAN ADD NEW RESOURCES AND INFORMATION RELATED TO EDUCATION

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Cambridge trip

https://youtu.be/ZZUkUFIEPIU

Ghost walk

https://youtu.be/j1rDNQbo5x8https://youtu.be/j1rDNQbo5x8

History of pubs:

https://youtu.be/XGyqkb8ThPM

Cromer coast:

http://www.thisiscromer.co.uk/

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How the teacher can accommodate all students learning styles differences.
-Managing mixed ability classes.
-Combine activities so  they meet visual , auditory and kinesthetic learners needs.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/what-differentiated-instruction

http://www.pdst.ie/sites/default/files/Session%202%20-%20Differentiation%20Resource%20_0_0.pdf

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DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS:

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DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS:

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Evaluate the children while they are playing about a topic enhancing them to talk as much as they can via examples or asking them for suggestions or ideas.

-From Bloom to Lori Anderson in 2000 taxonomy
-Darren Rees' traffic lights self assessment method
-Assessment summative (measure the result)and formative (nourishing learning process) learning (AFL AND AOL).
-Robert Stake analogy with cooking and Paul black and Dylan William AFL DEFINITION.
-Success criteria help teachers to decide whether their students have in fact achieved the learning intention.

http://www.assessmentforlearning.edu.au/professional_learning/success_criteria_and_rubrics/success_criteria_rubrics.html

http://teachmeet.pbworks.com/f/12+AFL+Strategies+Teach+Meet+(1).ppt

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Games and different techniques to use in the classroom to teach grammatical structures and lexicon

-Rabbit ,elephant,duck and toast
-Picture from a story book
-Person to person ( touch head to head)
-Adverbs game
-The famous guest
-Touch & tell (experiment)
-Sculptures exhibition
-Buzzing bee (alphabet)
-Families photo (Egyptian family)
-Anyone who?circle group
-Freeze frames - (3 scenes>fairy tale/history/processes)bring them life or say what they think(thoughts tracking)
-10 seconds objects ( paintings, film , scene history,buildings)
-One two three ( substituted by moves)
-Cinisthetic posture scene (I am a ...) - topic, vocabulary
-Mimic actions in circle (what are you doing?)
-Circle and pair clap (numbers,names,verbs)

http://dramaresource.com/

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Information on how to stay safe using technology
http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/

Support for some subjects research and homework

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/

http://www.twinkl.co.uk/

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/

http://m.busyteacher.org/

Support for  TEFL and English language subject

www.playphrase.com

www.elementalenglish.com

www.elllo.org

www.getyarn.io

http://www.thesaurus.com/

https://www.pobble.com/

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/english.htm

https://uk.ixl.com/ela/

https://thinksmartbox.com/our-software/software-for-education/

http://www.teachwire.net/teaching-resources

https://support.activelearnprimary.co.uk/resources/bug-club/assessment.html

Special needs resources

http://www.HumansNoRobots.co.uk/

http://www.autismeducationtrust.org.uk/

http://www.senteacher.org

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/special-needs/#.WBMWN-bF9fQ

Preventing bullying

http://www.eachaction.org.uk/

http://www.bullying.co.uk/

https://www.stopbullying.gov/prevention/at-school/

Teaching Magazines and further publications

http://m.onlinenewspapers.com/magazines/magazines-education.htm

http://www.teachprimary.com/interactive

Teaching today:  https://www.nasuwt.org.uk/news/teaching-today.html

https://www.nasuwt.org.uk

https://pocketmags.com/rethinking-schools-magazine/

http://www.education-today.co.uk/

http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/

http://www.education-magazine.co.uk/

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MY VISIT :

https://youtu.be/Gb_4AOH7FI0

http://trowseprimaryschool.co.uk

http://www.trowse.org/

http://www.cattongrove.norfolk.sch.uk/about-us

MY VISIT :https://youtu.be/ZGEY5arepYg

http://www.sistemanorwich.org.uk/

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DECRETO POR EL QUE SE ESTABLECE CURRÍCULO DE LA EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA. 89/2014, de 24 de julio, para la Comunidad de Madrid 

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DECRETO POR EL QUE SE ESTABLECE CURRÍCULO DE LA EDUCACIÓN PRIMARIA. 89/2014, de 24 de julio, para la Comunidad de Madrid 

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http://www.madrid.org/wleg_pub/secure/normativas/contenidoNormativa.jsf;jsessionid=FD569C5F0972EEA45E5A67088A409D43.p0313335?opcion=VerHtml&nmnorma=8620&cdestado=P#no-back-button

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http://www.visitnorwich.co.uk/MY NORWICH : https://youtu.be/qQzqvjaU-Y8

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National curriculum in England for Science

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National curriculum in England for Science

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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-science-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-science-programmes-of-study

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National curriculum in England for English language

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National curriculum in England for English language

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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-framework-for-key-stages-1-to-4/the-national-curriculum-in-england-framework-for-key-stages-1-to-4

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Some suggested sections to use in your portfolio:

Activities (for use or adaptation)

Seen at NILE

Seen in school

From resources

Your own

Cultural information/observations

Real life in UK

School life

Photos

Related to life in UK

Related to your subject(s)

Personalised (eg selfie or with mascot)

Mystery pictures

Resources

Weblinks

Books

Journals

Language

Classroom language

New vocabulary (organised)

Contemporary English

Videos

From the web

Your own

Interviews (video, audio or transcribed)

Host family

Member of the public

School Teacher

School pupil?

Your Reflections

Diary

How NILE sessions relate to your teaching

Observation tasks in school

From NILE

Your own