Welcome to my monthly round up of teacher freebies for February! Even though February is a short month, it is brimming with special days: Groundhog's Day, Chinese New Year, 100th Day of School, Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day, and Black History Month just to name a few! These Teacher Freebies for February will help your planning for this busy month!On the first day of every month (or around - lol), I'll feature a few of the best teacher freebies that I have found from around the internet. I have organized them by grade level, but you might want to check the other grades for overlap or if you need to differentiate for your students! This post contains affiliate links. I earn a small...
Students experience learning differently. Some may be able or willing to solve tasks on time, but others may struggle to do so. Teachers will always have students who can’t finish tasks in due time, find it challenging to focus throughout a class, work slowly or inconsistently, or have difficulties following multi-step directions. Since the beginning of formal education, teachers have been trying to accommodate all students in their classrooms to the best of their knowledge. If you have slow-working students in your classroom and want to help them catch up and reach milestones, you should first make sure to rule out any possible psychological barriers that could affect their processing speed or other cognitive issues. Next, you should devise an...
What is a Semantic Gradient? Finding ways for our students to connect with vocabulary on a deeper level is one of the most important things we do as ESL teachers. After all, just being able to read a word doesn’t really help our students if they don’t know what the word means. We want them to recognize the word and be able to apply the word. One of the things in the English language that makes this so challenging is that we have multiple synonyms for each word that we use. That is why strategies like Semantic Gradients are so important. Semantic Gradients are a map of sorts showing the progression between two opposite words. For example, words like soggy and...
I deal with seniors who, for the most part, hate to read. Many struggle. We do some reading aloud in class because my intonation helps them to follow and if I can get them interested in the book, they are more likely to try to read on their own when that time comes.However, I do like for them to take part in the reading aloud. That is not an easy task. I usually have at least one person who will volunteer, but I want variety. What doesn't work - calling a kid out to read. The stress level for some of these kids are through the roof as it is. Adding the random picking of kids will increase that. You are...
An ill newborn’s life is hanging by a thread, and only the right diagnosis will afford her the treatment that may save her life. A cancer patient’s therapy can be tailored to the specific type of tumour they have, if only the doctors know what the molecular targets are that will make the drugs effective for that patient. Parents may finally get a name for the syndrome that their child has been living with. All of this can be achieved by sequencing the genome of a patient. A genome is a set of genetic instructions that can be deduced through examining blood or saliva. When scientists sequence genomes, they are involved in interpreting the changes between one individual and another...
