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Celebrate Uniqueness - Belongingness and Love

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Celebrate Uniqueness - Belongingness and Love

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Opportunities for students to express themselves through their interests and hobbies (Jaylen example).

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Meaningful Feedback - Belongingness and Love

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Meaningful Feedback - Belongingness and Love

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Community Sharing Spaces - Belongingness and Love

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Community Sharing Spaces - Belongingness and Love

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Spaces where students can share collaborate around common themes/topics. Could also be used as a suggestions/recommendations space i.e. recommending books to read, games to play etc.

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Inter class clubs - Belongingness and Love / Esteem

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Inter class clubs - Belongingness and Love / Esteem

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Teacher or students set up mini clubs that could run on Fridays for other students to enjoy. Drawing, word games, science etc could all be possible themes

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How do we ensure students keep coming back to our lessons?

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How do we ensure students keep coming back to our lessons?

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1. Ensure students hear their name in your lesson
2. Hear students points of view so they know their opinion matters
3. Daily check ins - sleep/diet/activities/concerns/feelings
4. Think outside of academics. Ask meaningful questions and engage students in discussions around real life topics i.e. students getting vaccinated, how to stay physically and mentally healthy during home learning
5. Sharing session around coping strategies for home learning, particularly students you know who are having difficulty
6. Show and tell day
7. Student led lessons
8. Open ended questions!
9. Sense of safety developed through clear routines, predictability, clear cut rules and processes for students
10. Trust circle - Judgement free environment within which to share thoughts, take risks, ask/answer questions
11. Gamification
12. Water / Snack breaks during lessons

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Pair up with another class outside of your pod and assign students a pen pal to engage with. Teacher can propose topics for them to discuss. They could email one another or have hangout sessions to connect.

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Similar to Pen Pals, 1 class engages in a hope experiment or activity. They learn about how the experiment works, materials needed etc. They pair up with a student/group of students from another class to teach them the sam experiment/activity

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Students share with the class the piece of work they are most proud of this week. Could be accompanied by an explanation. Using a platform like Padlet would allow others to comment on the work.

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Which object best represents how you feel?

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Which object best represents how you feel?

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Differentiating the learning experience and giving students so creative licence. For example;
Students must do English and Math today but they could choose between Geography / History / Science as 'maybe do' activities based on their interests

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Promoting Growth Mindset - Self Actualisation

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Promoting Growth Mindset - Self Actualisation

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Growth Mindset in the Classroom What is Growth Mindset? What The idea that, with effort, it’s possible to increase intelligence levels, talents, and abilities. Students who demonstrate a growth mindset believe their abilities develop over time, seek out opportunities to gain new

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Brain breaks are an integral part of a classroom environment and culture. For one, students need to build up their stamina toward the amount of time they can attend to one topic or subject. For another, they want to have fun. Lots of it. And of course we cannot forget that they're active. So active. Brain break games can be the cure-all.

Whether your students are learning in-person or remotely, check out some brain break games that you can play with your students to provide them the brain breaks that they so desperately need!

Mystery Person

Give students clues to a mystery person. It can be someone famous, a character from a book, or someone in the school, including classmates!

Detective

Have the detective close their eyes. Assign an unknown person to be 'it'. Have all of your students perform a particular motion (like clapping their hands). When the detective opens their eyes, the person who is 'it' changes the motion and the others follow suit. The detective tries to guess who was 'it'.

Simon Says

Give students an action to perform after saying, "Simon Says". If you give an action without saying, "Simon Says", and a student still performs the action, they are out!

I Spy

Look for an object somewhere in the room. Give your students a clue using one adjective (ex: I spy something round). Students take turns trying to guess what the object is that you spy.

For distance learning: Show a collage of objects and have students try to find a specific object.

Brain Break Games; I Spy

20 20 Questions

20 Questions

Choose a topic (ex: nouns). Think of something that fits that category. Students can ask up to 20 questions to guess the thing you are thinking of.

Mystery Sound

Have your students close their eyes. Make a sound (like shuffling cards). Students try to guess what made that sound.

Freeze Dance

Students dance while the music is playing. When you stop the music, students freeze. Once the music starts back up, they continue to dance.

Scattergories

Choose a letter of the alphabet. Students find an object that begins with that letter.

Brain Break Games; Scattergories

Memory

Put some objects on display for students to see. Then, take one (or more) objects away. See who can name which objects are missing!

Story Chain

One student (or the teacher) starts a story. Then, each student adds to the story one by one, until the whole story is told.

Last Word

Set a timer. Give a category for students to talk about (let's say breakfast foods). When the timer is up, the student who gave the last word (breakfast food) wins!

Charades

Students act something out while their classmates try to guess what they are doing. It can be an action, an animal or even a a saying!

Brain Break Games; FREEBIE

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12 Brain Break Games for the Classroom and on Zoom - Enriching Young Minds & Hearts

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Brain breaks are an integral part of a classroom environment and culture. For one, students need to build up their stamina toward the amount of time they can attend to one topic or subject. For another, they want to have fun. Lots of it. And of course we cannot forget that they're active.

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CHROME EXT: Annotate - Draw on any website - for student instruction.

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CHROME EXT: Annotate - Draw on any website - for student instruction.

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This extension lets you highlight, draw scribble on any website - to highlight text buttons, etc you want students to focus on.

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Annotate: Web Annotations with Screen Sharing

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Annotate web pages, PDFs, Google Slides, and Google Docs to improve engagement. Annotate in Google Meet when screen sharing.

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Kahoot!'s new student passes are a one-way ticket to take students from players to creators! Empower your students to engage in active learning with the tools they need to create and host kahoots that demonstrate their learning to the whole class.

With student passes your class will have access to:

The full functionality of the Kahoot! creator to make fun and engaging kahoots for their peers

Award-winning learning apps from Poio and DragonBox to master everything from the basics of reading and numeracy to algebra, geometry, and even chess

Premium Kahoot! features including exclusive question types like brainstorm, type answer, and puzzles, plus creation tools to create advanced slide layouts with our premium image library

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Make your students the hosts of their own learning experiences

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A student-centered learning platform and content hub designed to help students to take an active role in their education through powerful play

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ClassDojo helps teachers, parents, and students build amazing classroom communities.

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https://padlet.com/billbrant/clw2rplwhwa2ah9u

https://padlet.com/billbrant/9kybk0vohyvf8e8d

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Sign up with your School Google account.
- integrates with Google Classroom

Actively Learn is an award-winning digital curriculum that drives student engagement and equity through deeper learning. Our flexible features and comprehensive, standards-aligned resources empower teachers to deepen students’ comprehension in ELA, social studies, and science. Actively Learn is part of the Achieve3000 suite of digital education solutions.

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Engage your students in reading with Actively Learn, the digital reading platform where scaffolding, peer learning, and assessment come together inside a text, exactly when students need help and motivation.

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Students select 2 coordinates on the grid and delete the rectangles trying to reveal 2 identical dances. They then perform the dances to the music. If they are identical then leave as is, if not identical then the rectangles should be covered back up

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Google's forms as assesment for learning 

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Google's forms as assesment for learning 

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Here's a Google form we used in PE. This was a summative assessment to check grade one and twos understanding of Dance concepts.

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Super helpful!

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Leaving Voice messages on Google Classroom

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Leaving Voice messages on Google Classroom

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Which person best represents how you feel?

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Which person best represents how you feel?