#elementary education

[intothestacks]

A tip from a school librarian for teachers about classroom libraries

Thinking about how your target audience searches is key to a good organizational system. Organize your classroom library based on how your students search for books.

For younger students, this will likely be by reading level and then topic, while older kids search by topic.

I organize my school library by topic rather than reading level and last year's Grade 5s liked the organization system so much that they reorganized their classroom library in a similar fashion:

#teaching #education #elementary education #elementary school #libraries #school libraries #school librarian #librarylife #libraryland #the real life of me #canada

[essl-studies]

8-3-2024

I ate a homemade breakfast of chocolate-flavored coffee and 'loaded' avocado toast this morning at the bus stop.

Got to campus with over an hour before lab class. So I sat and read my library book. Ended up finishing it.

Today's chem lab was about the Conductivity of different compounds. We have to use the data to make scatter charts and them use those scattered charts to finish the lab worksheet. It's all due by next Thursday.

Took the kids to the playground and then out to the diner for supper.

Now at home, I'm deep cleaning my room since I haven't been able to since classes first started.

#early childhood major #education major #elementary education #study #uni #university #4 year university #student #study motivation #studyblr #motherhood #mom #mother #mom of 2 #mother of 2 #sahmom #sahm #sahmomlife #default parent

[istudiedyesterday]

An introduction!

Happy New Year to all 🎆 I'm Sam (she/her; U.S.) and quickly approaching my last semester of my undergrad education (woo hoo)! I am an elementary education major. As I go into my final semester, I will be in a classroom everyday for student teaching! I also have an interest in speech-language pathology and hoping to study that later down the line (about a year or so after undergrad).

This will stay mostly recreational until I start school back in a few weeks :D but I won't only be posting school stuff when I return to uni! Hopefully this will help me stay on top of things and keep me motivated.

Please interact if you're an active studyblr too! Love me some moots <3

#teaching #studyblr #study blog #student #elementary education #teacher #studying #student life #happy new year #eek

[plutopanics]

I am currently in the process of writing a 5-7 page paper on why writing is important in elementary school (I’m an elementary education major), and I have written more in 4 hours than I have since it was assigned in the beginning of the year.

It is due tonight. Wish me luck :D

#elementary #education #education major #creative writing #writing #essay writing #informative #elementary education #student teaching

[fretbored34]

Hey, it's between this and independent reading time 🤷‍♀️

#dank memes #fresh memes #funny memes #memes #lol #funny but true #so true #me irl lol #funny but not funny haha #oh no lol #adulting #mental health #school #college #elementary education #elementary school #elementaryteacher #television #tvarchive #tv movie #old tv #watching tv #i don't feel like doing anything #i don't feel like it #I don't want to do anything #lazy #lazy day #teacher #teaching #books and reading

[2022dirt]

The storage room of an elementary school.

#interesting #interesting facts #thats interesting #thats insane #thats incredible #discover #like woah #elementary #elementary school #school #schools #elementary education #nostalgia #nostalgic #nostaligiacore #nostaliga #whatthe #what the #what #what the hell #woah #woahhhh #woah :0 #woah dude #but woah #woah woah woah #woahg

[ghostie000]

hi teachers, i really need to tell you something. cw: physical abuse of a child

every time i got a note sent home, my mother would beat me heavily with a belt. one time the buckle hit my front tooth and that's why i have a crown there now. whenever i got in trouble, usually for having side conversations during the lesson, i would cry and panic, beg them not to (which never worked, maybe because they thought i was just being a brat, maybe because it would send the wrong message) and at times have to get through the rest of a six hour schoolday knowing all the while what was waiting for me at home. after the beating i was locked in my room for the day. the next day i'd have to sit on the welts. this was the routine from 2005-2010.

i don't know how classroom management works. i know you can't fix everything, and that cps fails most kids. i just ask that if you have a student who seems more upset or frightened than they should after getting in a little trouble, you talk to them. maybe you could come up with a punishment that doesn't involve leaving them at the mercy of their parents, since some parents don't have much mercy.

#Tw: physical abuse #Physical abuse #Cw: physical abuse #Tw: abuse #Cw: abuse #Cw: child abuse #Tw: child abuse #teaching #pedagogy #classroom management #Teachers #Educators #elementary education #childcare #graphic descriptions of violence #Teaching #trauma

[summerreign4077]

I never understood the reasoning for punishing a child for physically defending themselves against a bully. Even worse is making them apologize to said bully. I absolutely refuse to reprimand female students who hit boys who won’t stop pestering them.

#I also can’t believe that it’s 2023 and people still believe the ‘He’s just teasing you because he likes you.’ nonsense. #feminism #elementary education

[cowboy-corpse]

Little motivational poster i made with realistic cat smurf, followed by a mockup of what it might look like hanging in a classroom setting!

#my art #cat smurf #motivating quotes #get motivated #classroom poster #classroom quotes #elementary education

[your-blorbo-from-whore-bo]

I don’t know if this merits a post, but I keep thinking about this time I was at work at an elementary school and the kiddos were talking about learning disabilities, and one of them said “that’s like David, he doesn’t know nothin.”

And my first reaction was to fight this with anger, but then I remembered, they’re just kids, and I can make this a learning moment. I said simply, “I have a learning disability.”

For context, I’ve kinda grown a reputation in the elementary school as “the yard duty that knows everything”. I just like riddles and my dad’s a scientist, so I both can explain in decently simple terms different harder science concepts, and know the answers to those riddles that kids like to say to trip up adults and get a laugh. I even give them riddles too, so they can ‘trick’ other people. Harmless fun ya kno?

So needless to say, when I said I had a learning disability, they flipped out. One of them even said, and I was counting on it, “what?! No way! How?! You’re so smart!”

And so I said, “Learning disabilities don’t make it so you can’t learn, you just have to work harder than most people.”

Id like to think I made a difference, and maybe one kid who’s diagnosed with some kind of metal disability, learning or otherwise, that’s heard that remembers what I said.

Of course, it’s not as simple as that, but I figured it was age appropriate, and encouraging.

#learning disabled #adhd culture #adhd feels #actually autistic #elementary education #tumblr stuff #something to remember

[essl-studies]

5-4-2024

3rd lecture fornthe week today.

I also got my registered classes for.next semester approved so I knwo what I'll be taking as well a the professors and meet times. I will be posting that at some point during the week of the eigth.

Today in class I got Dr. Gares the pin you see pictured above since ei didn't like it when I got it given to me. She loved it tho, as well as my cheese Chemistry jokes. We learned about the Geometry of molecules (how they are shaped and why) we also tried our hand at using the Lewis structures of a molecule to calculate the geometries.

#early childhood major #elementary education #education major #study #uni #4 year university #student #study motivation #studyblr #university #motherhood #mom #mother #mom of 2 #mother of 2 #university student #university studyblr #uni studyblr #uni student #default parent

[intothestacks]

Looking over my province's new elementary curriculum and

Being a school librarian, I've started reading over the new elementary curriculum my province's government has put out and holy cow. All the teachers hate it and now I know why.

Magnetism, which used to be a Grade 2 science unit (it's perfect for that age, since they still learn mostly through hands-on activities) is now a Grade 4 unit.

Meanwhile, they want to teach Kindergarteners about recycling and why it's important (which will either go way over their heads or will give them anxiety).

They want Grade 2s to be able to "examine properties, types, and selection of materials based on suitability, availability and sustainability".

Grade 3s (8-year-olds!) are now expected to do the Grade 4 unit on simple machines as well as to "investigate creativity and its relationship to computational and divergent thinking".

Grade 5s are learning about atomic particles while also learning some stuff that used to be Grade 1 and 2.

It's all basically a mishmash of "Hey kids, we want you to learn the names of colours -- and also to do junior high physics in the same grade!".

#alberta curriculum #abpoli #cndpoli #kindergarten #librarylife #libraryland #school libraries #school librarian #libraries #canada #the real life of me #elementary school #elementary education

[fr0g-f00d]

GUYS!!

it happened again

i am having yet another college/career related crisis, as i do almost semi-yearly.

one thing i noticed this time, however, is i ALWAYS end up back at elementary education.

i think i am going to stick with it this time, i really do.

just wanted to share!!!!!!!!!!!!

that’s all :-D have a good day!!

#college #career #existential crisis #elementary education #future teacher

[andtherestishistory13]

I just realized that today is pi day and tomorrow is the Ides of March and now I’m thinking about how to incorporate Julius Caesar into my elementary school curriculum

#personal #ides of march #elementary education

[senderosquesebifurcan]

Preparing the Environment

One of the tenets of Montessori pedagogy is the "prepared environment". This means that the person in charge of the environment (in a school the guide, in a home the caregiver) has prepared it ahead of the arrival of the child so that when they arrive it offers them pathways to explore, learn and grow that do not require direct adult mediation.

I spend a lot of offline time, when no students are present, preparing the environment. So that it's ready. So that when they get there, they can get to work and it literally does not require me. This preparation has so many facets. Setting up the tables in such a way as to encourage sharing work and collaborating. Making sure the materials are present and organized in a way that makes sense and can be put away by them. Are there enough rubber bands, enough paper, enough pairs of scissors? Enough, but not too many (never one for each learner, except maybe graphite pencils) -- again to encourage sharing and collaboration. Too much of any material leads to a disregard for it. It's not that materials should be scarce. It's that they are precious, and their use should be intended and intentional. Tools and materials must be clean, in good working order and - here's the most evanescent of the environment preparation tenets - inviting and pleasingly arranged.

I put an alligator skull on the shelf. I tilt it. I take it away. I put it next to the cow skull. Remove it. Look at the shelf again. Think about what the specimens are for and how they are used. Put the alligator skull back. Take three steps away from the shelf. Crouch to kid height. Look. Yes. That is inviting. Pleasing. Beckons the imagination. Now, I look at the next shelf. I have thirty six more shelves to do.

It takes time. Energy. Thoughtfulness. And because it is invisible, behind the curtain, no one knows it happens. But it is essential.

Yesterday as I was working on the room a friend and colleague arrived and asked to look around. In a moment, a person she was meeting at school arrived. A person who had never been in our school or in a Montessori elementary environment. Like many as they arrive (I see this often on tours) he stepped into the room and his eyes lit up. "Oh this is nice," he said. Yes. It is intentionally so. His eyes roamed the room, fell on a book on a display stand: Powers of Ten. (It's a fabulous book, based on this movie:).

Once his eyes hit the book, he walked over and began to babble excitedly. He had seen the video and was explaining how incredible it was, how eye-opening, how cool. I invited him to look at the book, to pick it up and touch it. He spent a quiet minute leafing through the book, sharing it with the friend.

When the environment is prepared, it inspires, enlightens, invites. Montessori talked about it as seducing the child, and that has some unfortunate connotations that she would not intend, but the effect is real, and it doesn't only work on children.

I love this part of the work. I was prepared for it by the many years I spent writing, I think. It is solitary and requires all my best brain cells in top form, but it is both essential and invisible.

#Montessori #teaching #prepared environment #elementary education #Youtube #powers of ten

[mrhops30]

#inked #tattoos #neck tattoo #tattooed #back piece #heavily tattooed #elementary education #principal Mike