This is a website that is focused on centering the experiences, viewpoints and research on school libraries. There are many articles, teaching strategies and lesson ideas that new teachers can learn from. It also shows the power of collaborating with the teacher and school teacher-librarian on various curriculum subjects. This website is powerful because it can help new teachers get ideas of how to approach various projects and lessons for various subject areas with a particular focus on literacy education.
8 Strategies to Manage the 21st Century Classroom
Using technology in the classroom can seem overwhelming when you have multiple objectives to achieve each day and a class full of students to engage simultaneously. So how do we manage the advancing 21st-century classroom environment? Here are eight real-world strategies to slay the daunting, technology classroom dragon.
Education World’s Activities for the First Day of School
Are you looking for the perfect way to get to know your students and help them get to know one another? This collection of teacher-tested icebreakers will do just that. And for OTs, one of these can be the perfect intro to an assignment in a new group at any time of year!
Boundaries Are More Effective Than Rules
The subtlety of the differences between boundaries and rules makes it easy to discount the impact each can have on the emotional climate in a classroom and the quality of the relationship between teachers and students. However, teachers who endeavour to shift from the win-lose familiarity of rules to the win-win prospects of boundaries report a significant decrease in conflicts and power struggles in their classes, and far greater success in reaching kids previously deemed difficult, unmotivated or, in some instances, even dangerous, than with any strategy previously attempted.
OTF: Survive & Thrive
On this website, you will find a variety of resources you may need in the classroom, including interesting activities.
Classroom Management and Tips for Daily Occasional Teaching
With these effective classroom management tips, an OT can run his/ her daily supply job more successful.
Classroom Management
This toolkit is meant to help educators effectively manage their classrooms with the goal of continuing with teaching/learning and maintaining the integrity of the classroom. Focus is on student development, not control.
Egg Timer
A simple countdown timer.