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Teaching a Narrative Step by Step
Set Up a Writing Station: paper, blank postcards , envelopes, pens, pencils, sticky notes etc.22 Use a Writer’s Notebook - each student needs their own notebook. Allow students to create a cover for their notebook Use prompt cards for the children who need a little...
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Streamlining your Teaching
We all know how the single most important part of our job is teaching the children, this is our job. Unfortunately there is a lot more to it than that! In this new series, I will be talking about ways we can streamline our planning and workload. Let's first take a...
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Behaviour Management
If you are on teaching placement, one of the biggest challenges to overcome is behaviour management. This is just a post on what has worked for me in my teaching experience so far, different things work for everyone but this is just my way of doing things, five years...
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Transitions between Lessons
Transitions between lessons are a very important part of classroom management. Do your students start talking the minute their books are closed, holding up the beginning of the next lesson? Or are they involved in a purposeful transitional exercise? I have used Go...
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Water Theme
'Water' is always very popular as an overarching theme on teaching practice and for lesson plans in general. I myself haven't used because I much prefer narrow more focused themes. I will share some ways 'water' can be integrated as a theme for the Arts subjects for...
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My name is Valerie. I am a primary school teacher. I teach in a rural school in North Dublin. I hope you find my website a useful source of information and resources. Thanks for stopping by!
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