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NQTs, new and trainee teachers, part 2: Learning environments
Following on from part 1 of this blog series for new teachers, part 2 focuses on how to create a successful learning environment.As a teacher in a secondary school, the tips I've written here are most...
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Tips of the Trade for Students with Special Needs
As a Special Education Teacher, I was thrilled when I got my first ActivBoard. I started looking online and found beautiful lessons that I immediately downloaded to use with my new board. I started the...
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Are Teenagers Toddlers at Heart?
Three 'Primary School' Strategies that Work with Secondary Students At the end of the last academic year, our school had a couple of whole-school activity days, on which students could choose their...
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Can’t Speak – Can’t Teach! Vocal Health for Teachers
Once it’s gone, there’s no getting your voice back again. You can’t simply go out and buy and new one! In a profession most likely to experience occupational injury in this area, it’s time we started...
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Mathematics Hints: Ways to Remember
To learn more about the Planet Teachers' Lounge, please click here. I can still remember some ‘silly’ words or acronyms I was told when I was at school to remember the order of different events....
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They Love You Not? St Valentine’s Advice for Classroom Management
As St Valentine's Day approaches, I started thinking about the ways in which the same advice that works for relationships outside the classroom works on relationships within the classroom. Somehow, we...
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Testing Times – Helpful Ways to Prepare Students for Exams and Tests
To learn more about the Planet Teachers' Lounge, please click here. Read the Instructions!How many times have you told your students to read all the instructions on a test or exam before they start?...
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Tips for Using Inanimate Alice in the Classroom
We've just launched a partnership on Planet with interactive digital novel Inanimate Alice, a really cool tool for 21st century learning! You can find out more in the news story Inanimate Alice Lands...
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Classroom Management: Ready, Set, Go!
To learn more about the Planet Teachers' Lounge, please click here. Let's be honest, boys and girls: I don't know everything about classroom management, but I am smart enough to listen, view, and read...
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Defusing Explosives: My Top Ten Tips for Managing Classroom Conflict
When I was a child, I used to find it almost impossible to watch the sort of films in which James Bond is busy defusing an explosive device that is ticking down towards zero on a time clock. Many were...
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Mind the Gap 1: Transition from Junior to Senior School
When the academic year draws to a close, teachers and parents begin dreaming of summer holidays while considering their classes for next year. Students will also be dreaming about holidays, but those...
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Mind the Gap 2: Transition from Compulsory Education to Further Education
Many students look to continue their education after the compulsory stage to obtain further academic or vocational qualifications. How can this transition be managed to ensure that the learners choose...
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Turn that PDF into an Interactive Lesson!
So you've found and downloaded a PDF. Let's say it's one of the great PDF resources you can find on Promethean Planet. Now, what can you do with that PDF in a 21st Century classroom? In this blog post,...
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Digging Deeper: Increasing Mathematical Understanding and Depth (Part 1)
How can you get your students to think? How can you get mathematics to be about more than just memorizing steps and procedures? Teachers can increase student participation and depth of understanding by...
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Digging Deeper: Make Your Mathematics Class More Meaningful (Part 2)
Planet Super User, Tabitha Savage, returns to the Planet blog with more new strategies to incorporate into your mathematics class. None of the suggestions are wildly revolutionary, but rather small...
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