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How to Use Collaborative Tasks to Create Classroom Community

by BrainNinjasWP

Collaborative tasks help students learn to work together toward the classroom community they want to achieve. Read more about how we use collaborative tasks to build classroom community and learn more about the types of tasks we use.

One of the most effective classroom management strategies is the classroom community you build with your students. We start our school year with collaborative tasks to help students get to know each other. These activities help students learn to communicate and build trust. Collaborative tasks help students learn to work together toward the classroom community they want to achieve.

Come learn more about how we use collaborative tasks in our classroom.

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Filed Under: Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Alberta, Back to School, Brain Ninjas Shop, Bulletin Boards, Classroom Community, Classroom Management, Collaborative Posters, Collaborative tasks, Diwali, Eid, Eid Al-Fitr, group work, Indigenous Cultures, Indigenous People of Canada, Posters, Remembrance Day, research, research skills, Teachers Pay Teachers, Teamwork

How to Get Your Classroom Set Up in One Day

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you stuck in a time crunch with one day to set up your classroom? Yes, it can be done. Get down to the basics and leave everything else for later. Come read about how we've set up our classroom in one day.

It was the first day we were allowed to reenter the school after a major renovation. It was a disaster. Before the end of the previous year, we packed up everything and carefully labeled it. Nothing was returned to the classrooms. Students would be arriving in ONE day! Yup! You heard that right.

What a nightmare! Fortunately, we worked with the most amazing staff on the planet. We planned out a solution to bring everyone’s anxiety level down to a manageable level. We hosted a walking set-up bus.

What is a walking set-up bus? Keep reading to find out.

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips Tagged With: Back to School, Classroom Organization, Classroom Set Up, Holidays and Seasonal, Setting Up Technology, Staff and Faculty Activities, Teacher Mental Health, Teacher Wellness, Teamwork

You Need to Stop Overlooking Health Class!

by BrainNinjasWP

When you skip health class, you tell students it's not important. Use these engaging health and wellness lessons to reinstate health and wellness in your classroom.

Are you having trouble fitting health lessons into your plans because you already have too much to teach? Stop overlooking the value of health class! You can leverage health lessons to teach reading and writing. You can help students in your class be organized, play safely and get along with each other. So why are you ignoring all these important outcomes?

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Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Anti-Bullying, Bullying, Expected and Unexpected Behaviors, Feelings, Friendship, Goal Setting, Health, Lesson Plans, Online Safety, Responsibility, Safety, Teachers Pay Teachers, Teamwork, Wellness

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