It’s November already–time to focus on all those things we are grateful for! One thing we at Teacher2Teacher Help are grateful for is YOU! What a year it has been, huh? But you have hung in there and given your best to your students in the most challenging times. On behalf of all the children and families …
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Homemade I Spy Game: Fun With Phonics
Last week was exhausting. We are no longer knee-deep in a pandemic–it’s more like chest-deep with no end in sight. My children are missing their friends and their cousins. And the colder weather outside means more time for my people to run around the inside of the house like little lunatics. Just to top things …
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Step-by-Step Instructions for Planning and Recording Virtual Minilessons
With so many unknowns about what the upcoming school year has in store, many of us are turning our attention toward upping our teaching skills for distance learning. Here at Teacher2Teacher Help, we recently offered a free webinar to help teachers begin to plan and prerecord virtual (flipped, asynchronous) minilessons. Christy shared many practical tips …
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Simple Ways to Connect with Students in Virtual and Face-to-Face Classrooms
As we turn our attention to the upcoming school year, we do so with many questions and much uncertainty. Will we start the school year face-to-face or remotely? If we are face-to-face, how will social distancing guidelines change the way we teach? The list of questions is endless. And unsolvable. And possibly paralyzing. How do …
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Are Books Limited at Home? 4 Ideas to Get Your Kids Reading
My littles are really lucky to have SO many books at their fingertips. I know most families don’t have access to books like my kids do. However, as I have made independent reading time a priority in our home, I realized that some of the reading material that fills my children’s reading time could be …
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Bolstering Student Participation in Synchronous Distance Learning
Teaching in digital platforms has a whole new and different feel to it. It has no doubt been a challenge to pump up my enthusiasm as I stare at my laptop screen instead of student faces. It can feel like the students (or blacked-out boxes) cannot quite see or hear from such a distance, and …
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