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If students are excited about what they learn, it propels them into new learning. As a teacher, I try to model this by teaching concepts with wonderment and awe, showing and voicing my excitement over what we are discussing-- taking a quick minute to google something and watch a quick video "wow!! isn't that so interesting?!"

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Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision

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Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision

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Expanding vocabularies, learning to write more complex sentences, fourth graders are definitely learning new tools to allow them to think and communicate with more clarity and precision, whether its using the thesaurus in vocabulary exercises to find new words with deeper shades of meaning, to utilizing technology so that written work is legible.

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Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

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Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

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This goes along with academics, like taking what we already know about a concept, and expanding on. Or, taking what we know from our life experiences and using it to contextualize what we are learning.

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In the 4th grade a lot of the bullying and friendship conflicts occur. I need to teach students to be more aware of their thoughts and emotions so they can understand what made them do the negative action in hopes they wont do it again.

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These days too many of us listen just to respond, my class is working on listening and responding to the speaker authentically.

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Fourth graders definitely need to work on their managing impulsivity skills. Enough said!

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We are going through our senses unit in science right now! But in life, we must also use all our senses to gather data about social situations!