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10 activities to integrate SEL in your classroom

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Partner and group work. Group/partner projects are important to encourage communication, emotional awareness, teamwork, and accountability. Post the phrases around the classroom and encourage students to review them when discouraged about their learning. Roleplaying activities can teach compassion and perspective.

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Beyond the bookshelves: 3 ways school libraries have evolved to meet students’ needs

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Over the past several years, these spaces have transformed into collaborative areas that encourage group work, discussions, and hands-on activities, promoting creativity and innovation–ultimately becoming instrumental in shaping well-rounded, adaptable learners.

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As a paradeducator, here’s how I use tech to help neurodivergent students gain agency

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Here are a few more ways I’ve adapted technology for my neurodivergent students: Group projects Many students with neurodivergent conditions struggle to connect and communicate with other students. This is exacerbated online, so I use a private chat tool in classroom.cloud to support my students in group work.

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6 ways to support multilingual learners in STEM

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Give students opportunities to communicate their STEM thinking. Group work, projects, and activities allow students to interact with and learn from each other. Use small groups to discuss and solve problems. Students from different backgrounds often have their own ways of participating and learning.

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3 things you didn’t know your classroom management software could do

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For group work, either to help solve problems in the group or to gauge progress, record interactions so students can review and reflect on how they interact with their peers. Likewise, congratulate them for progress and good efforts with virtual badges.

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7 reasons to ditch recipe-style science labs

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It includes everything we need for a project: the group work activities, the labs, supplies for teachers and students, and the reinforcement labs. If they have the skill sets necessary to problem solve, communicate, improvise, and try, they’ll be able to do anything. It’s all-encompassing.

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5 ways to use AV to prepare students for 21st-century jobs

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Critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity—these are the “Four Cs” that P21 has identified as critical skills for 21 st century learning. In addition to facilitating learning in multiple subjects, media projects, presentations and online communications advance the uptake of all Four Cs of 21 st century learning.