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Use videos or music from videos to transition to different parts of the day. Keep kids engaged with song, rhymes, or music. Youtube has many great resources (Harry Kindergarten, Have fun Teaching Letter sounds etc.) You can organize your videos on Blendspace.

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Tes provides a range of primary and secondary school teaching resources including lesson plans, worksheets and student activities for all curriculum subjects.

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For students who struggle with expressive language, when they have to present information on a topic, they can use Voki. Their character can talk about their knowledge on a topic and the student can write the script.

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Voki is a fun tool that students can use for homework, classwork or projects. Customize their appearance and what they say, and share with others!

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Teach using visuals to organize information. For example a graphic organizer to retell beginning, middle end or a 5 finger retell hand. You can create, share and present online graphic organizers using the free software

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Empatico helps students in social situations and allows them to more easily express and communicate how they're feeling. It gives them practice with communicating their emotions and how to read others emotions. Through this app students can make a "communication board" which can be used in the classroom to assist the student.

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‎Emotional Intelligence Basics - Vocabulary of feelings Do you know about emotions? The Empatico app have the appearance of an ordinary Memory game. What is a bit special however, is that Empatico is designed to increase children's emotional vocabulary. Player's task is to click on the tiles and tr...

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Students on the ASD that went to college 34% choose to pursue a stem major. Providing a stem based curriculum helps keeps these students engaged and interacting.

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The STEM Academy, Inc. aka STEM 101 is a national non-profit thought leader and provider of STEM education programs. STEM 101 provides 21st century career minded curriculum, instructor training and administrator coaching to inspire, engage, and prepare students for the jobs of tomorrow. STEM 101's flexible use, national standards-based curriculum is a powerful resource for in-school, after-school, or summer bridge programming for all schools; public, private, and charter.

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The STEM Academy, Inc. aka STEM 101 is a national non-profit thought leader and provider of STEM education programs. STEM 101 provides 21st century career minded curriculum, instructor training and administrator coaching to inspire, engage, and prepare students for the jobs of tomorrow.

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An app that provides visual scene displays with text-to-speech voices added to narrate. This helps students with reading skills by creating an interactive notebook.

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‎Scene Speak is versatile customizable app that provides a framework on the iPad to create interactive visual scene displays and social stories. Scene Speak allows an image to be edited with active "hotspots". A hotspot is an area of the screen that can "sound areas" that can be selected and used...

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Students are able to create boards with their personal discovery education user names to share what they have learned. We use this a lot in social studies, but students can make a board for pretty much anything!

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"I look forward to logging in, every day. Whether I need a quick video about a current event, a pre-made learning activity for a lesson, or using Quiz to poll my class, there's always something useful. I feel like Discovery Education has really listened to what educators need."

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This is a great resource for students that may be struggling with understanding how a math lesson is presented. There are mini videos that give lessons on specific skills .

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Workflowy would be a good way to help all students organize their tasks by setting deadlines to help them complete a project on time.

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Kaizena is an extension that can be added to a Chrome Book or other device. A student could add comments throughout their Google Doc. This may be something students could use with each other when conducting peer edits.  This would allow students to remember what their peer said, or what suggestion they offered.

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Kaizena - Fast, Personal Feedback on Student Work

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Give your students fast, high quality feedback on their work. Record voice comments to convey emotion, embed explainer videos, save reusable comments, and track skills students demonstrate in their work.

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Students can add Grammarly to their Chrome Books to help them correct grammar errors when either typing, or using talk to text features in Google Docs.

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Students could create a graphic novel or comic strip using Pixton.

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Students can create a Voki to help them provide an oral presentation of facts or book report rather than a written report.

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In looking for cool tools to help kids keep organized during task, I came across this app. It looks like a really cool app for students with autism, or even ESL students. I don't know that it would be real beneficial to the whole class, but I wanted to share it.

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Teachers can use PowToons to introduce a topic/project. The video can include audio directions or explanations. The presentation can include the learning objectives, connect prior knowledge to current learning, and include important vocabulary for the student to reference when needed for spelling purposes or other learning needs. Having the video introduction allows students to rewatch when needed for clarification or other purposes.

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I provide choices for students to pick when completing vocabulary. A lot of the students use quizlet. There are games that students can the play to practice their vocabulary words.

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Kidspiration provides a cross-curricular visual workspace for K-5 learners. Students combine pictures, text, numbers and spoken words to develop vocabulary, word recognition, reading for comprehension, writing and critical thinking skills. It also offers activities in all curriculum areas.

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Inspiration Software, Inc. - The Leader in Visual Thinking and Learning | inspiration.com

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A graphic organizer is a visual display that demonstrates relationships between facts, concepts or ideas. A graphic organizer guides the learner's thinking as they fill in and build upon a visual map or diagram. Webs, concept maps, mind maps and plots are some of the types of graphic organizers used in visual learning.

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Scavenger hunts are a way to represent the information a different way and to engage the students in an activity. It gets them out of their seat and moving around the room while completing problems. Students go to a question, answer it and then have to locate their answer on a different card around the room. They then complete that question and continue until they end where they began.

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Quizizz is an interactive game, similar to kahoot! The kids love to play and try to beat their best score.

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Wayground - The world's most engaging learning platform

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Find and create gamified quizzes, lessons, presentations, and flashcards for students, employees, and everyone else. Get started for free!

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Blogger can be utilized to create class discussion, peer to peer, and peer to student discussion. It is a great way to give students the chance to reflect and discuss what they have learned. Great for students who need more time. It also lets students express themselves, provide their opinions, and express their understanding of content

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Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog. It's easy and free.

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Publish your passions your way. Whether you'd like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog for free.

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Webspiration  allows tons of data and information to be organized in outlines and graphic organizers. It also allows for you to attach video and audio to the webs as well. This can be used for different kinds of learners by allowing the incorporation of different tools and different formats for all learners

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Access all of your work from anywhere with Internet access. Collaborate with peers and share your documents, or just keep them securely in one place.

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BrainPOP allows students to play game, take quizzes and watch videos about a lesson's topic.

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Bubbl allows you to break down the main idea of the topic into smaller ideas for students to understand.

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Brainstorm online with Bubbl.us. Easily create colorful mind maps to print or share with others. Almost no learning curve. Millions of people are using Bubbl.us worldwide to generate ideas, map out processes and create presentations.

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Instead of having students hand write their writing prompts, allow them to type it out on google docs.

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This is one of the coolest things I've come across for education. This program is a hands-on approach to solving real-world problems in a team setting. Gifted students exercise their skills of creativity and high academic abilities within given challenges (usually related to STEAM activities). PLEASE check out this site - it's awesome!

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Our team building and leadership programs enable schools, companies, non-profits to achieve more than ever before.

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Here with this site, it allows students to work collaboratively and create a mathematical game and submit it thanks to the Mind Research Institute. This is an exemplar activity for students with talents in logic to practice their problem solving and communicating skills. Enjoy!

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K-12 Game-a-thon: Student Game Design Challenge

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Students are invited to design, build and share their own math game in this nationwide competition!

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Whether the  gifted student learns in a sequential or spatial manner, Prezi certainly makes a top contender. It offers the mind mapping and organizational tools needed for them to make sense of the world around them, but also visualize goals they seek to accomplish.

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Open Canvas

Create, organize, and move freely on an open canvas. Create seamless presentations without the restrictions of linear slides.

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Presentations and videos with engaging visuals for hybrid teams | Prezi Present

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Welcome to Prezi, the presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make you a great presenter.

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Keep students engaged with interactive lessons on Nearpod. Documents can be uploaded by a teacher, making it unnecessary for students to have to take notes. Technology can be used to add interactive features, such as virtual field trips, pictures, 3D objects, quizzes, polls and more. Everyone's devices are linked so everyone is able to participate in real time and not just see it on a Smartboard.

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Get started creating a lesson, video, or activity. Upload your favorite resources (PowerPoints, Google Slides, PDFs, videos). Or choose from 15,500+ ready-to-teach, customizable, standards-aligned premade lessons, videos, and activities from trusted educational publishers.

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Instead of giving a homework assignment of having students write down thoughts or ideas and then bring it in to share, Flipgrid offers students the ability to create videos to share with one another in a virtual classroom. This would be fun and innovative for all students. Those with dysgraphia wouldn't have to worry about writing their thoughts down and sharing their handwriting with classmates.

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A compilation of the best audio recording apps for teachers and students. Those with dysgraphia can use the apps to capture thoughts without having to write them down and record lectures. Some of the apps also can translate audio recordings to text.

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Below is a collection of some of our favourite audio recording apps for iPad. Whether you want to capture an idea or thought on the go or you want to create to-do lists and memos, these apps will definitely make a difference in your audio recording experience. They are also ideal for recording lectures and audio notes, a feature which students might find useful. Some of these apps also provide speech transcription so you can have a written script of your audio recording. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback in our Facebook page.

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'Audio Memos is a professionally made audio recorder. It has an amazingly intuitive interface, which is easy to use and full of powerful features. Use it in interviews, lectures, music session, briefings, ... and simplify your recording tasks.'

'Perfect for Lectures, Meetings, Conferences, Interviews, Debriefings, Brainstorming, Quick notes, To-Do Lists, Planning, and more...Type, record, or type while recording/playing, also add in photographs and capture everything...Super Note helps you create notes very rapidly and make voice recordings during, as well as add photos. The notes are color coded so you can find them instantly and you can change the note color/category on the fly. You can also set future alert reminders on individual notes.'

In their review of Recorder Plus, iDB () featured Recorder Plus as one of their favourite audio recording apps. It provides a wide variety of features including:one touch recording, a user friendly interface, high quality audio recording, record and playback in the background and many more.

'It is a full featured best voice recorder application with stunning interface for business, audio professional, sound engineer, journalist, lecturer, school/college student and anyone else who needs to manage voice memos.'

'Just Press Record is a simple, professional audio recorder that brings the ultimate convenience of one-tap recording and instant syncing via iCloud to all your devices. Perfect for capturing ideas, thoughts and memos on the go.'

'Smart Record is a professional recording tool that enables you to assign notes and photos to your recordings, helping you to capture the moment and context, transforming the recording into transparent and organized piece of information.'

'This audio record manager lets you dictate notes and memos, as well as record meeting, lecture, interview, and day-to-day sounds. Time to free up your hands and get rid of the traditional note pad! Stop taking handwritten notes in a note pad and start audio recording everything you need -- from a to-do list to a critical memo with the use of speech.'

'iRecorder is designed to be quick and easy use, and simple to understand. Great for on-the-go capture of your thoughts, ideas, notes-to-self, lectures, concerts, music, you name it! Record for hours, or just seconds.'

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8 of The Best Audio Recording Apps for Teachers and Students

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Students who have dyscalculia can use virtual math manipulatives to solve math problems.

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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

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A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics

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Talking calculator - when students type a math problem, the calculator will say the problem out loud for the students to listen.

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Virtual flash cards - students can use virtual flashcards to help learn math facts or problems in class.

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Task Cards:
Task cards can be used to help encourage an ESL student to think on their own and develop well written sentences while making connections to real life experiences. These can easily be teacher made and designed with individual students in mind.

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Help your beginner ESL students in vocabulary and writing with these ESL task cards! Each set uses real images and prompts to encourage ESL students to make real-life connections in a fun and engaging way!

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Students who are learning English as their second language can use visuals to express their knowledge of content with mapping tools and graphics instead of words.

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Students and teachers can translate words and phrases using google to help explain directions, .

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s a speech recognition software program for math that can help students with a range of disabilities. From prealgebra to Ph.D. level mathematics, students can perform math problems by speaking into a microphone on their computer. The program works with Dragon NaturallySpeaking programs for voice-to-text functionality, making it ideal for students who have fine motor skill disabilities. Students with blindness or vision disabilities can use the integrated braille translator.

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With audionote, students can record lectures and type or draw notes at the same time. The app automatically syncs the recorded audio to a student’s notes, creating a lecture with matching notes. Students can jump around in the audio by clicking the notes they’ve taken. This lets them review the lecture through sound and notes. AudioNote can be very helpful for students with auditory processing disorder.

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Frequency modulation (FM) systems can reduce background noise in the classroom and amplify what the teacher says. This can help with auditory processing issues as well as attention issues. The teacher wears a microphone that broadcasts either to speakers around the room or to a personal receiver worn by the student.

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Motiva® Personal FM Listening System - Williams Sound

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The Motiva Personal FM System reduces background noise and maximizes listening by wirelessly broadcasting a speaker's voice, audio program or simultaneous mix for all participants to hear. This system also features a receiver with a sensitive environmental microphone, giving the listener more flexibility on what they want to hear.

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Buncee | Create, Present and Share Engaging Multimedia Lessons

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Rewordify takes text and makes it easier to read and understand and has helped learners be more engaged and successful.

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Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand better, learn new words, and teach more effectively.

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Ginger is an extension to chrome (for free), and it assists students with grammar corrections as they write.

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Powerful and effortless desktop & mobile solutions for improving your writing and productivity. Ginger Software is your personalized editor - everywhere you go.

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Use CoSketch for collaborative work, so talking is not always necessary to complete group projects or assignments.

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CoSketch.com - Online Whiteboard Collaboration

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CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images. No registration or plugins required.

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Provide concrete mathematical items such as building blocks, or digital math tools to enable hands on learning.

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Cool Math - free online cool math lessons, cool math games & apps, fun math activities, pre-algebra, algebra, precalculus

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Cool Math has free online cool math lessons, cool math games and fun math activities. Really clear math lessons (pre-algebra, algebra, precalculus), cool math games, online graphing calculators, geometry art, fractals, polyhedra, parents and teachers areas too.

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Live Caption enables spoken text to be converted into a digital text. This can be done on a phone or tablet.

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Live Caption. Turn your phone into a Live Captioning device!

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Use auditory cues (like music) to transition between activities.

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TV Theme Songs

The response from teachers who have been using theme songs in their classrooms has been nothing short of overwhelming. Each and every email tells the same basic story.

"I am amazed at how well this idea has worked with my students."

"It's like magic!"

"I have a pretty tough class this year and thought the songs wouldn't work very well. Boy, was I wrong! You should see them scramble to get ready for recess when they hear the first few notes of Mission Impossible. Thank you so much."
The Basics
The main reason music works so well is this:

It's as simple--and complex--as that.

As you already know, there's a massive amount of talking done throughout the day. The majority of the talking is done by the teacher. In fact, research indicates the teacher's voice accounts for approximately 80% of the total volume.

The students, as you can infer, contribute the other 20%. Their talking could be in response to a lesson being taught. It might be the natural outcome of a think-pair-share situation. Add to those two the oh-so-annoying, off-topic social talk that can occur on a regular basis and we're dealing with a virtual tidal wave of words.

Note: Check out Talkative Students for a simple suggestion on how to deal with social talk.

But music, for the most part, is devoid of words. This is especially true of most TV theme songs. The melody of the song is a right-brain cue that is able to cut through all of the verbal clutter and send a clear, unmistakeable message.

Music Messages

A theme song can be used to send a number of different messages. The song could:

1. remind the students about something

2. initiate a pre-established procedure

3. time the length of a transition

4. create a pleasant background during student discussions

Listed below are some suggestions to get you thinking about the possibilities. These theme songs can be found on the CD that comes with the book, Eight Great Ideas . (It's included with the book because one of the ideas in the book is about using music for management.)

Instead of the traditional "N-B-C" association, my students knew the three chimes meant "Name, number, date." I usually waited until they were well underway on the assignment before I cued up the song. It was the rare paper in my room that did not have the proper identification on it.

The predictability of this song makes it perfect for transitions. After giving my students the transition goals, I would play the song. It only took about a week or two for them to become familiar enough with the song that it became, in essence, an internal clock.

My students had the freedom--a student need--to work away from their seats if it helped them get something done. When it was time to move on to something else, though, this song told them to return to their regular seats.

My district was big on working with students on the carpet. Not sure why, but they were and wanted to see it. A lot. The Bill Nye song, 28 seconds in length, proved to be the perfect song for getting them to come to the carpet without a word being spoken. From me, that is. They would talk on the way to the carpet; but, I was okay with that. It was an opportunity--freedom, if you will--for them to engage in social talk. All I required was that they stop the conversations and come to attention when the song was over. Win-Win.

This less-than-a-minute song is great for packing up at the end of the day. (Or the end of the period, secondary teachers.) The music is upbeat and high-energy.

I used just the first thirty seconds of the song as a way to get my students to prepare themselves for the start of our morning BELLWORK™ activity. (You can go to the BELLWORK™ page for more information about how to make this powerful start-off-the-day activity really fly.)

Another high-energy, upbeat song, this is a good one to get them out of their seats and pitching in whenever you want to return your classroom to a semblance of neatness.

Playing music in the background as students engage in think-pair-share discussions is a great way to not only time the length of the discussion but also create an environment conducive to the discussion. The conducive part is based on the fact that, psychologically, music is considered to be a "mask." It actually minimizes the impact of the other voices being used throughout the room.

If, for example, two students were to either burst out in laughter or get into a bit of an argument during the T-P-S, just about every other partnership would shut down to see what was going on. But with music playing in the background, the other pairs of students are less likely to notice.

Another advantage to the use of a background discussion song is the fact that the end of the song is a cue for the students to come back to attention.

I used to play this song when I was about to select a student--or-two--to help with a lesson. To make it a random selection, I made some large name cards with their first and last name written on them. We're talking cards big enough to read from across the room but narrow enough to hold aloft in my hand.

As soon as the first few notes of the song hit their little right brains, they were all thinking: "Mr. Morris is about to call someone to the front of the room to help out!"

As the song played, I would shuffle the cards and then hold one up.

Mr. Morris
In his best Bob Barker voice:
Natalie Adams! Come on down!

As you can imagine, there'd be some cheering and clapping just like the game show.

TV Theme Songs website
Here's the site where you can download hundreds of theme songs from television shows and cartoons.
televisiontunes.com

Send in your suggestions

If you've got a TV theme song you're using in your classroom, send in the title of the song and how you use it in your classroom. We'll post your submission on this page for other teachers to see.
Hey, Rick. Here's my theme song idea. Teacher Suggestion:
After you shared the idea of theme songs, I went a little crazy at first. Now I've learned to be consistent and that more is not always better.

This year, my students were taking forever to line up for lunch. Although they did not want to be last in a line of 8 third grade classes, they were still moving at a snail's pace to get out the door. So, I now use the I Dream of Jeannie song and the goal is to be out the door, in alphabetical order and ready to go before the song ends. It is working great!

Thanks for all your great ideas. It definitely helps me work smarter, not harder.

Audra Ciasullo
Third grade teacher

Teacher Suggestion:
It may be that I overlooked it in the Eight Great ideas book, but I would suggest renaming each of the song titles on your iPod according to the procedure it represents so that when you want name, #, date that's what you see, rather than the song title.

I've used the Jeopardy song as a way to clear a space for Drama in my classroom. My kids move my desk and about nine of theirs and get in place in under a minute. They love Clear Desks, please.

I've also used Andy Griffith to give them an opportunity to share with two other students something I've taught. It's an opportunity to move around the room when I begin to see the wiggles take over.

I hope this was helpful.

David Leonard
2nd & 3rd Grade
Cobb Mountain Elementary School

Teacher Suggestion:
I tried having my students turn in an assignment to the Mission Impossible theme song. It was amazing to see how quickly they were able to do it.

It was cute to watch the students who had already placed their assignment in the collection box stand around and dance to the remainder of the song. It allowed them to release some pent-up energy which is always helpful.

Thanks so much for the idea about using TV theme songs for procedures.

Gail Forest
Riverbank Teacher's Association

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