Teaching improv to reserved, introspective and stressed engineering students can be challenging in person. So when the pandemic arrived, teaching remotely seemed nearly impossible. How could we build ...
What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or ...
December's Community Classroom teacher is Heather Lane from Jenkins Elementary School. Community Classroom highlights a teacher in South Georgia and the Big Bend once a month to help them get what ...
Whether you’re teaching in-person, remotely, or in a hybrid modality, it’s important to build a collaborative classroom community of mutual trust, respect, and understanding. It is a critical step in ...
When fifth-grade teacher Sharri Conklin first invited her students to lead a daily mindfulness moment, she didn’t expect it to spark a quiet revolution. What began as a single child asking to read a ...
WHITEVILLE, N.C. (WECT) - Pencils sound like basic materials for a kindergarten classroom, but for Kathy Butler’s students, they’re in short supply. That’s why the teacher at Williams Township ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - It’s time to party! That is, if you help these students have the celebration they deserve. For this month’s Community Classroom, Springwood Elementary School in Tallahassee ...
What does science instruction look like in the age of the coronavirus? In Part One, Tara C. Dale, Mandi S. White, Justin Lopez-Cardoze, and Ross Cooper share their experiences. Today, Camie Walker, ...
A high school teacher replaced all classroom rules with four the "4 R's", and the results speak for themselves.
One of my favorite parts of being an educator is the sense of community that is created with each new class of students. Fostering that feeling in person has its challenges of course, but is a bit ...
In today’s political climate, marked by the Black Lives movement and other protests, conversations about race can be difficult to have, especially as social media often fuels racial tensions rather ...
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Jamila Simmons says she has a classroom full of very active students. The teacher at Town Creek Elementary is hoping to get some help to buy sensory tools to help them stay ...