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Whether you use musical instruments, game pieces, call-and-response, or electronic devices, there are many successful ways of getting students to focus front and stop talking. 
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If you’re a teacher who grew up in the pre-Internet era, you understand how tech innovation has revamped the educational landscape. Gone are the days of the blackboard and mimeograph. Teachers today carry a heavier (and more complicated) toolbox than ever before. The question is, how efficiently are you using your tools? Inviting Students to
Beth Dichter's insight:
Bringing technology into your classroom can create major shifts, and planning ahead is a good idea. This post shares a guide that has 4 strategies to assist you. The examples provides are for a first grade classroom, but they will provide a foundation for many grade levels. Strategy 1: Do your homework. This focuses on three areas - lesson planning, legwork and troubleshooting. Strategy 2: Identify learning goals. This section provides two samples and discusses the value of learning goals. Strategy 3: Step away from the computer. Keep an eye on your class. You may need to move from 'tech time' to other modes of learning more quickly than planned. Strategy 4: Capitalize on their desire to explore. Prepare lessons and realize that the students work may lead to questions that provide options for exploring other areas. There are many helpful ideas in this short guide. With younger students you may want to allow exploration by using a tool such as Symbaloo, where you can create links to websites that you have vetted and allow students the ability to go to new places that you know are safe.
Halina Ostańkowicz-Bazan's curator insight,
October 12, 2014 3:00 AM
Technology learning is less structured than traditional learning. While it’s important to prepare lessons wisely, there comes a point when you must “let it go” and give in to the human desire for freedom of exploration.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Thanks to Richard Byrne for this link. Teachit Timer is an online timer where you can set it so it shows the time that has gone by and time left to go. You may also select an alarm sound. This could assist with management during project time or scheduled breaks.
Progressive training's curator insight,
January 26, 2014 11:55 AM
Teachit Timer - A Free Online Timer 
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
January 27, 2014 1:18 PM
This is slightly better than the one I am already using. 
Charlie Dare's comment,
January 28, 2014 12:08 AM
Managed to set to current time then couldnt see how to set it to time I wanted the alarm to go off ??
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"If you are lucky enough to have an iPod or iPad in your classroom you know that they can be great motivators for students. There are tons of apps that teach and reinforce what your students need to learn. You also know that keeping kids in the app that you want them in is usually not quite so easy!"
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you would like to limit access to a specific app on an iPad, iPhone, iPod or iPadmini check out these step-by-step instructions that have a screen shot for each step (of which there are eight.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Additional categories include: * Curriculum Mapping * Lesson Planning * Learner Choice * Student Support * Classroom Management Each category has four tips. Four tips (each from a different category) are below. To see the full infographic click through to the post. * Technology is a means, not an end * Bloom’s Taxonomy (or related learning taxonomies) is/are used to move students from basic to complex thinking daily * Rigor is omnipresent, from bell ringers and quizzes to accountable talk and assessments * There are exemplar models immediately accessible to students of all important work and activities
Debbie Goodis's curator insight,
October 19, 2013 11:16 AM
Can these posters be purchased and printed?
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As every teacher knows, good classroom management can make the difference between a great class experience and a poor one. While technology doesn’t replace the need for a solid approach to classroom management, tech tools, including these, can certainly help.
Beth Dichter's insight:
Richard Byrne shares two timers, an iPad app that helps students understand noise levels (and hopefully learn to keep their voices down), and a random name selector. There is a detailed explanation of each tool and two videos, one that shares how to use classroom timers and one that looks at using a random name generator in a class.
LucaVanin's curator insight,
November 1, 2014 4:51 AM
Strumenti per la gestione dell'Aula, anche virtuale.
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"It’s tempting to say that no matter how much technology pushes on education, every teacher will always need to know iconic teacher practices like assessment, curriculum design, classroom management, and cognitive coaching. This may end up being true...Below are 15 tasks that are less skill-based. and a bit more conceptual, collectively representing how teaching is changing."
Beth Dichter's insight:
I suspect that every teacher has seen major change over the last few years. This post provides a look at changes that have happened, or are in the process. The first seven provide the change and a look at the old, the new, the difference and a short summary. One example from the post is quoted below. Personalization The Old: Administer assessment, evaluate performance, report performance, then–maybe–make crude adjustments the best you can The New: Identifying, prioritizing, and evaluating data for each student individually–in real time The Difference: Precision For more information click through to the post.
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"Over the years, many of us have personally experienced the growth of technology in today’s classrooms. Instead of taking notes, students are now occupied by surfing the Internet, scrolling through Facebook, and messaging their friends on their smart phones, tablets, and laptops. Instead of focusing on the instruction, teachers are constantly required to interrupt class in order to remind those students again and again, that class time is for learning, not texting. However, as today’s students are using more technological devices, it is imperative that teachers have access to the resources to keep pace with the growing tech culture."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post provides 25 teaching tools which are split into five categories: * Organization * Project Based Learning * Classroom Management * Presentations * Assessments This wide assortment of tools may include a few that are new to you. Each is described in the post.
Heather MacDonald's curator insight,
December 19, 2013 2:32 PM
Teaching tools in a "tech culture" - even in the classroom...maybe especially in the classroom our teaching tools adapt in order to teach children best practices in organization and learning skills. 
Erica Strain's curator insight,
August 24, 2018 8:55 PM
Technology tools to help you get organized in the classroom
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Actually there are two sets of classroom rules in this post. The one above will help teach students how to deal with problems that may be escalating...with the student being asked to help solve the problem. The other poster is "almost entirely focused on the human being the rules were written for, rather than the rules themselves. Take risks and make mistakes, Do your best, Say please and thank you, and Work hard. All good stuff." These two sets of rules may help you revise the rules for your classroom this year. Check them out and see what you think.
Nancy Jones's curator insight,
August 17, 2013 9:48 AM
I really like the accentuating of the positive in both of these posters. 
Joshua Farber's comment,
August 17, 2013 1:51 PM
Interesting. I often try to test rule-sets like this by running them past an anecdotal example - in this case, "how would student texting during class be managed by this poster's rules?" Which may expose a dilemma of application - because students texting during class can get an educator a black mark in an impromptu learning walk or unnanounced observation, and because it can tempt other students who cannot afford to be so distracted to think that texting would be a good idea for THEM, I'd define it as a "problem" - but cannot think of many students who would agree. The primary issue here, then: who defines what is a "problem for someone else"? If teacher and student cannot agree on that category, I see little use - and some distraction and danger - in such a set.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Eight guides to help you in the classroom, ranging from Math Literacy to Explisict Word Analysis Instruction to Quick and Easy Craft Ideas for Teachers to Classroom Management (plus four more!). You may find great ideas as you peruse their selection!
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At times we need to quiet our students down. This post provides 30 suggestions that you might want to implement in your classroom. They have categorized the suggestions by grade levels, but it is often true that a tip for elementary school will also work with middle school students.
Throughout the post there are links to additional resources, including a number of videos where you can see the suggestions in action. You might also consider reading the comments from other listeners. There are a number of ideas in some of them and one provides a link to a different article from Edutopia, A Sure Fire Strategy for Building Classroom Community (and I would suggest checking out the comment since you are hearing from a teacher who did this with their students).