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Classroom Clean-Up Strategies That Work!

Cleaning your classroom doesn’t have to be just another chore! Introducing clean up songs for the classroom to your students is a wonderful way to get students involved in keeping the classroom tidy. It’s also a great way to transition from one activity to another, saving you a classroom clean up later on. Sharing a clean-up song with your little learners is a fun and simple way to encourage their participation in making the classroom a clean and comfortable environment for everyone. Songs and classroom clean up games also allow students to take pride in their classroom while building their self-confidence when they learn about responsibility first hand.
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Related Book: Transition Time
What Does Digital Citizenship Mean?

Every day, technology plays a larger role in the early childhood classroom than before, which means that understanding digital citizenship for kids is more important than ever! For many parents and teachers, the first step in learning about digital citizenships is finding the answer to these questions: what does digital citizenship mean and why is digital citizenship important? The concept of digital citizenship for students is directly tied to digital literacy and the overall debate over the use of technology in preschool classrooms.
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Related Book: Digital Decisions
Teaching Kids to Try Again

Remember the old saying “if at first you don’t succeed, try, and try again?” When it comes to failure and teaching resilience to kids, this saying is a wonderful example of how to encourage your children when they first encounter failure. Failure is inevitable, especially as children begin to grow, try new activities, and explore the world around them. What doesn’t have to be inevitable, though, is giving up. By encouraging your little learners to try again and letting them know that failure is normal, you’re not only promoting healthy social emotional development, but a valuable lesson in resilience and hard work as well.
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Related Book: Social Development of Three- and Four-Year-Olds
Why Giving Students Classroom Jobs is Good for Everyone

Managing a pre-K classroom is hard work, even when teachers have a classroom management plan in place.
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Cool Down Activity Ideas for the Classroom or Home

Effective classroom transition activities and strategies are an important part of behavior management in the classroom. At their very core, transitions are planned disturbances to lessons, bringing one thing to a close and leading students to the next planned activity.
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Related Book: When Nothing Else Works
Positive Discipline Strategies for the Preschool Classroom

With the problematic trend of preschool suspensions and expulsions on the rise, positive discipline techniques for teachers are more important than ever. No matter how smoothly your classroom may run, every child eventually exhibits common childhood behavioral problems such as getting distracted or becoming disruptive - the key is to handle these situations with a more positive approach.
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Related Book: When Nothing Else Works
Mentoring Matters—How to Support New Teachers

Teaching is a very rewarding field, but no one has ever claimed it is easy. First year teachers often find they are entering a whole new world to navigate, one with many challenges they may not have anticipated. Be it managing the classroom, working with parents, or exploring their role in the school they work in, many things can leave new teachers feeling lost and discouraged. That’s why one of the best strategies to support new teachers is mentoring. There are many roles in the school community whose tasks include mentoring new teachers. Principals, administrative faculty, and even just more experienced educators can all have a part in supporting new teachers, a role Nancy Alexander calls “Technical Assistance.”
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Related Book: Nailing Jelly to the Wall
New Year, New Start: How to Redirect Classroom Behaviors

It’s January; that means the school year is halfway over! However, if the children in your classroom are still exhibiting challenging behaviors, it can feel like you’re running out of time to make an impact. Early childhood educators have the unique position of teaching children how to behave in public as well as how to learn in a classroom.
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Related Book: When Nothing Else Works
How to Help DLL Students Struggling to Read

School can be difficult for young children. It’s a new place with new rules that may be different from the rules at home, and there is a newfound responsibility in learning in a classroom. Now imagine doing all that without understanding what people are saying! DLL students—(or dual language learners)—struggle with this issue every day.
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Related Book: Literacy for All Young Learners
The Truth About Recess and Why It Matters So Much

Outdoor play spaces often act as more than just playgrounds; they are extensions of the classroom, places where children can learn by experience. Recess and outdoor playtimes are very important experiences for young children to have, both for their bodies and their minds.
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Related Book: Seasons of Play

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