Let’s play a game! Can you imagine a shark? Can you vividly see the image in your head? Good! Can you imagine a doctor? Can you see the white coat and Stethoscope in your mind’s eye?
Excellent. Now, please try and imagine a “shark doctor”. “Huh, what’s that?” would be probably be most people’s first reaction. Is a shark doctor a shark that is a doctor, a doctor with shark-like features or something even more mysterious?
In a recent activity we combined animal/object cards with a profession card to create some fantastical combinations, some of which are displayed in the pictures below. The students were able to practice phonics in addition to multiple skills simultaneously while moving around the room, and pondering new interesting combinations in a fun manner.
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First post in a series on classroom hacks. Short tips that help in the classroom
This one relates to keeping the classroom clean.
It can be hard to distinguish the partition from the
whiteboard when you are writing in a hurry. I have had almost all age ranges
doing it including adult students.
Hand sanitiser takes it off very easily. It only works on the partition.
Never use it on the white board.
Sakata partion got pen on it at some point. Watch me in action!
Did you already know this or has your mind been blown?
A mother yesterday asked an advisor at MY an odd question: My daughter keeps saying, ‘Ah-peh-ne,’ after eating. I think she’s saying something in … Continue reading "Ah-peh-ne!"
Two years of teaching… Finally, the almost constant feeling of panic and uncertainty about my lessons has been replaced by something that from afar, … Continue reading "On Adaptability"
What could you do without, if forced to, when teaching? Could you teach without pencils and paper? Without books? Without a white board or … Continue reading "(Re)learning to teach"
This is one takeaway I have from the last training day we had where Mike Griffin came here to present to us. More info … Continue reading "The IKEA effect"