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23. Tool- Emotional Intelligence Development

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23. Tool- Emotional Intelligence Development

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https://everfi.com/k-12/social-emotional-learning/
This tool provides teachers with different platforms to promote social-emotional learning techniques and strategies in their classrooms to help their students with different learning needs and develop their skills.

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Help your students understand and manage their emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. EVERFI's online character education curriculum, training, and support are completely free to K-12 educators.

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Help your students understand and manage their emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. EVERFI's online character education curriculum, training, and support are completely free to K-12 educators.

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https://kahoot.it/
Kahoot provides entertainment and challenges students to recall prior information to demonstrate concept and skill mastery.

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Join a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn – any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

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21. Tools-Different resources for teachers to utilize

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21. Tools-Different resources for teachers to utilize

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https://stockton.edu/ctld/tech-tools.html
This website provides teacher with different options to teach their content to their students in their own unique manner.

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Instructional Tools - Center for Teaching & Learning Design | Stockton University

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Home / Learning Design & Delivery / Instructional Tools

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https://www.weareteachers.com/21-simple-ways-to-integrate-social-emotional-learning-throughout-the-day/
These strategies focus specifically on social-emotional learning strategies that teachers may incorporate in their classroom to promote the social-emotional skills of students.

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50+ Simple Social-Emotional Learning Activities for All Ages

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Teach self-control, emotional awareness, and more by incorporating these easy social-emotional learning activities into your daily routine.

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19. Instructional Materials-Multiple Links for Content

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19. Instructional Materials-Multiple Links for Content

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https://www.teachforamerica.org/stories/top-world-history-resources-for-the-classroom
This website provides students with different options for watching clips of interview and speeches throughout history across different platforms.

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Top World History Resources for the Classroom | Teach For America

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Check out these top world history resources to keep your students at the edge of their seats!

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https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/social-studies/
This website provides students with a wide variety of videos to learn about their desired content with easy access.

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Social Studies Activities And Lessons | PBS LearningMedia

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Discover thousands of social studies activities, lessons, and interactive resources for all grades, all aligned to state and national standards.

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https://quizlet.com/
Quizlet can provide students with the opportunities to develop their own quizzes and flashcards to practice their vocabulary comprehension skills and overall content knowledge.

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16. Instructional Strategies- EL students

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16. Instructional Strategies- EL students

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https://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/english-language-learners/25708
This website provides multiple options for EL students to learn content in their own unique method that works best for them and helps develop their English.

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About the Author

Educators are all too familiar with the unfortunate truth that what is tested drives a teacher's instructional focus, energy, and time. Unfortunately, because history/social studies is not a formally tested subject in elementary schools in many states it frequently becomes the neglected subject. Additionally, with little to no sense of urgency to teach history thoroughly, it is easy to rely on "sound bite" instruction rather than quality, in-depth teaching. It can be a constant challenge for elementary educators to designate significant amounts of time for social studies instruction. Another concern related to time constraints but specific to English Learners is the reality that frequently they receive less social studies instruction than their fluent English classmates. Some might argue that this is largely the result of state mandated ELD instructional minutes. In order to meet the required minutes many schools implement an ELD rotation block. During this rotation, while ELLs are receiving specific ELD instruction, their classmates are receiving social studies, art, or music instruction. This rotation block becomes the main time for social studies instruction, resulting in English Learners receiving minimal, if any, social studies instruction.

Including English Language Learners

Perhaps a successful remedy to this dilemma is the practice of fusing social studies, English language arts, and ELD instruction. Because so many historical issues have more then one side to argue, what better marriage than persuasive writing (a major ELA strand) and social studies content? For example, students could roleplay and engage with the following prompt: Should the colonists declare independence? Persuade the Loyalists to join in the struggle for independence or convince the Patriots that they should remain loyal to the King. When students have to effectively argue their point of view they are forced to thoroughly understand the historical background or context. They think critically while mastering academic language.

Engaging English Language Learners

Two strategies that can help students learn persuasive writing are using a chant and using a persuasive writing frame.

The Chant:

Students rhythmically repeat words and phrases. Chants are an essential element in supporting students in English Language Development as they increase fluency and facilitate the practice of language skills.

Chants help students learn because of their musical nature. The repetition of patterns helps students develop English fluency as well as memorize important academic writing patterns.

Through the use of repetition and having fun together (be as silly as you like) students will increase their automaticity with the language as well as memorize the persuasive frame, thereby creating a portable tool students can access at any time.

Using a chant is straightforward. The teacher (or leader) stands up in front of the class and 'chants' the lines. It's important to be as rhythmical as possible because these rhythms help students learn and remember.

See here for an example of students engaged in the persuasive essay chant. Also, click here for a sample format for the chant.

The Frame:

English Language Learners often have difficulty finding just the right words to explain, describe, and clarify what they are thinking. One way to help and further engage students in class discussions and improve their writing is to provide sentence/writing frames. See the Persuasive Essay Frame for an example and also this entry for more examples of writing frames.

For more information

This is just a slice of a much broader work entitled, Freedom to Express: Promoting Civic Literacy, Reading, and Writing for the English Language Learner. This curriculum uses the First Amendment, namely, Freedom of Expression, as a frame of reference to launch and systematically teach ELLs how to successfully write a persuasive essay. To secure a copy please contact Michelle Herzog at Herczog_Michelle at lacoe dot edu.

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Educators are all too familiar with the unfortunate truth that what is tested drives a teacher's instructional focus, energy, and time. Unfortunately, because history/social studies is not a formally tested subject in elementary schools in many states it frequently becomes the neglected subject.

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15. Assistive Technologies- Technology Tools for Students

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15. Assistive Technologies- Technology Tools for Students

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https://www.understood.org/en/articles/8-examples-of-assistive-technology-adaptive-tools
This website provides teachers with different options to help their students with diverse learning needs.

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Examples of Assistive Technology and Adaptive Tools in the Classroom | Understood

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Kids can use assistive technology to help with learning and thinking differences in the classroom. Learn about nine common examples of assistive technology and adaptive tools at school.

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14. Instructional Strategies- UDL strategies

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14. Instructional Strategies- UDL strategies

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https://goalbookapp.com/toolkit/v/strategies
This website provides many options for teachers to create and implement strategies in their classroom.

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This website provides crucial articles that vary in subjects related to World War I and World War II and can help students gather information on their own rather than relying on just their notes or textbook for context and an in-depth understanding of key events.

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World War I Articles - Inquiries Journal

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Browse full-text World War I articles and other academic articles in Inquiries Journal

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12. Instructional Materials- School Textbooks

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12. Instructional Materials- School Textbooks

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Textbooks are a crucial element in providing my students with relevant historical information and answering the writing prompts I provide them with after my lessons.

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11. Instructional Materials/ Assistive Technologies -News Channel Clips

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11. Instructional Materials/ Assistive Technologies -News Channel Clips

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I can provide students with historical clips that discuss historical events tied in with my content. This tool can provide a different level of displaying content to students in my classroom that may pay more attention this way rather than reading all the time.

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This strategy gives students the ability to think about their responses to a prompt, pair with a classmate to discuss their findings, and share their opinions in a larger group setting.

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9. Instructional Strategy- Journal Writing

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9. Instructional Strategy- Journal Writing

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This strategy gives students the opportunity to answer a prompt given to them that may have inspired or influenced them. Students can then share their responses with their partners to gain their perspective on the content they just learned.

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8. Instructional Strategy- Relevant Vocabulary

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8. Instructional Strategy- Relevant Vocabulary

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This strategy displays challenging vocabulary this is tied in with the lesson or topic at hand. Students should be able to understand the context and importance of these vocabulary terms mentioned in their notes, lecture, and textbooks.

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7. Instructional Strategy- Higher Order Thinking Questions

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7. Instructional Strategy- Higher Order Thinking Questions

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This strategy pushes students to respond to challenging prompts by the teacher in their preferred method of answering questions (discussion, summary, etc).

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Students can create their own unique method of writing notes for future study (Cornell notes, etc).

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5. Assistive Technologies- Audio Players and Recording

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5. Assistive Technologies- Audio Players and Recording

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This technology can help provide students with additional assistance in listening to my lectures and follow along with textbook passages through audio players.

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4. Assistive Technologies- Reading  Guides

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4. Assistive Technologies- Reading  Guides

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This tool can be utilized to highlight important sections of a passage in a textbook to give students assistance in locating relevant information to the lesson.

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This strategy helps educators understand the abilities of their students to help them understand aspects of the current lesson or topic.

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This strategy helps students identify prior knowledge, interest them in what they want to know, and understand what they want to learn.

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1. Instructional Strategy- Graphic Organizer

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1. Instructional Strategy- Graphic Organizer

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This strategy helps students with visual representation of information and can help them develop organizational skills.