Managing the day-to-day challenges, curriculum, and discipline of today’s classroom can be a monumental task. Simply put, it’s hard to get your kids to do what you want them to do.
But there is one almost sure-fire way for teachers to institute discipline, get kids to turn in homework, and get kids to listen: Start up Fun Friday!
Todau on TeachHUB.com, frequent contributing writer Janelle Cox discusses instituting Fun Friday, which is “a day that is designated for fun, playing fair, and having a good time. It can last the whole day, a few hours, or as little as 20 minutes. It’s a time for students to take a break from all of the academia and learn through play. It can be done with a few teachers or only one teacher.”
Janelle also looks at how Fun Friday works, why it works, and how you can convince your school administrators to approve of a Fun Friday sceme.
In summation, Janelle says: “After a few weeks of implementing Fun Friday into your weekly schedule, you will be amazed how many students will their tails off in order to participate in it. It is such a great motivator for children, and all of those missing homework assignments and wasted time disciplining students will soon be few and far between.”
Do you implement a Fun Friday into your weekly schedule? If not, what do you do to help your classroom management?
Educational Apps: 4 for Keeping Parents in the Loop
Parent-teacher communication has never been as vital – or as easy to maintain – as it is today.
E-mail, blogs, cell phones and the like have all made it that much easier to stay on top of getting the message out to moms and dads – and now a round of apps has made it even more of a snap to keep them in the loop.
Today we review four new apps designed to help you maintain an information pipeline going home to your kids’ parents.
