Trauma-informed Teaching: Creating a Safe Space for Learning

Plus...New Lesson Plans, Worksheets, & Fun Activities! K12reader.com provides free, printable reading instruction resources for schools, teachers, and parents Reading worksheets and articles covering sight words, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar, and other reading essentials. [jigsaw]( Plus...New Lesson Plans, Worksheets, & Fun Activities! Weekly Newsletter: January 31, 2024 Daily editing builds students' skills! With [Every-Day Edit]( exercises, challenge students to find and fix errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, or grammar. [The Concorde]( Build grammar skills using this Every-Day Edits: The Concorde activity and answer key for an article about this supersonic plane. [Carl Sandburg: Hobo Turned Poet]( At age 19, Carl Sandburg left his boyhood home in Illinois. He took no bag or supplies. He was headed for the open road where he would live as a hobo. [Teacher Essentials]( [What Is Trauma-informed Teaching? Creating a Safe Space for Learning]( For many students, the walls of your classroom just might be the safest or most dependable area in their lives. Your classroom is not just a space for learning but a haven of safety and understanding. That's the magic of trauma-informed teaching – creating an environment where students absorb academic knowledge and feel seen, heard, and secure. [Gallery Walks in the Classroom: Opportunities for Creative Feedback]( As educators, our ultimate goal is to witness academic and personal growth. Gallery Walks provide a platform for students to showcase their accomplishments and witness the blossoming of their peers. It celebrates creativity, collaboration, and the diverse minds in our classroom. [Using Language to Encourage and Empower Children - To Reinforce]( We reinforce by noticing the positive attempts children make to follow the rules and meet class expectations. We reinforce when children are practicing new skills or when they demonstrate behaviors recently modeled. We also want to consistently reinforce appropriate behaviors to sustain and develop constructive habits over time. Here are some valuable tips.... Read more [recently added articles]( [Lesson Planning]( [Designing Rube Goldberg Contraptions]( Students will learn about the principles of simple machines, cause and effect, and problem-solving by designing and building their own Rube Goldberg contraptions. [5 Lesson Plans for Teaching Students to Tell Time]( Telling time is a skill often relegated to when-the-teacher-finds-time status. But it is a skill as real-life and essential as addition and subtraction -- especially in the age of digital clocks. Here are five fun lessons focused on teaching kids how to tell time. [Lesson Plan: Stars - Science]( Pre-written, Ready-to-Use Lesson & Student Worksheet! Learning Objective: To learn about stars and then answer questions about them. Explore our [recently added lessons](. [Administrators]( [Instant Meetings: Collaborative Solutions]( This meeting activity gives your whole staff an opportunity to play the role of professional developer -- solving problems for one another -- for an hour. [Professional Development]( [Classroom Management and Student Engagement Strategies for Elementary Classroom Teachers]( This course will dive into a number of classroom management topics. There will be things that teachers can create and/or put into affect in their own classrooms. This course will supply you with ideas from the first day of school, and throughout the entire school year. You can work through at your own pace. [Fun Activities & Worksheets]( [Geography A to Z: The Letters Q and R]( Fun Student Handout! Students will learn about geography as they explore famous places around the world one letter at a time. [Printable Student Worksheet: Size]( Have fun drawing and coloring based on size in this School Express Worksheet! [Critical Thinking Worksheets: Learn About Antarctica]( Ready-to-print student work sheets that develop critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills in core subject areas. Connect With Education World [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( Copyright © 2023 The Educator's Network, Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: 7762 Still Lakes Drive Odessa, FL 33556 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.