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5 Ways To Boost Creativity Among Students in the Classroom!

0 Being creative rewards one with a cornucopia of benefits and opportunities. A classroom without creative minds lacks enthusiasm and can fade into a hideously boring one. Why not nurture a creative environment where students can get cheered up and inspired to chase goal after goal? Here’s how you can magnetize creativity in the classroom! Customize Your Classroom With a Theme What could be more entertaining than draping the whole classroom in a weekly theme? Choose any strikingly interesting theme from history or literature. For example, you choose the Victorian era. Now you’ve to drench every little thing in your classroom with a Victorian touch and train your students to speak English as awe-striking as the characters in novels set in the Victorian period. Let students be Jo March from Little Women, Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice, and many more captivating characters. This will enhance their creative flow of language as well as their enthusiasm to learn. Fill the Walls With Posters of Great Quotes There are many quotes with different shades of emotions. Some quotes are just meant to shake our hearts while other quotes are meant to make us ponder and change into someone new. And some quotes look as if it’s written for us. So let the walls of your classroom be decorated with powerful quotes. It’ll immensely help your students remember and quote them on suitable occasions, and they’ll be admired for their cleverness. Create a Vision Board Create a big vision board for the academic year, and let all the students devise their weekly goals to stick on. Encourage the students to craft goal after goal to chase and achieve. Reward them with stickers or any school stationery item. While complimenting the achievers, don’t forget to cheer up the ones who are pacing like snails. Build a Classroom Library Cultivate reading habits in the classroom by creating a mini library. Motivate students to buy, exchange, and discuss books they have read. Making students compete by reading more, it’ll gradually mould them into voracious readers as well as enhance their cognitive functioning to build their realms of creative worlds. Give Them Creative Assessments Instead of making them write assignments with long, boring paragraphs, tell them to edit videos with pictures and audio describing the topic as creatively as possible. Let them present the topic in a story-telling format, song, or even comics. The more options you toss, the more creative they craft. By implementing this method, the classroom not only becomes an imaginative realm but also becomes engaging and comprehensive.

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Are Your Students Afraid of Maths? Here’s How You Can Help Them Deal With Maths Anxiety!

0 To some students, numbers appear monstrous, and they sweat with pummelling fears while solving the riddle of numbers. If your students are sinking in maths anxiety, we’ve collected some tips to help your child climb the ladder to face and wear the confidence to overcome. Introduce Game-based Learning Traditional methods of teaching often beat the students with maths anxiety. Indulging students in game-based activities can bump up their focusing skills and sprout excitement. Games filled with fun can also help students develop a love for the subject. With this method, you can dim the monstrosity of maths problems and craft an engaging bunch of students. Practice Regularly Every complex task requires practice to smoothen up the road to perfection. The more one practices, the more familiar one becomes with the solving techniques and concepts. Regular practice can not only ease maths anxiety but also boost the overall performance of kids. It also comes with a plenitude of benefits like enhancing critical thinking, brain health, etc. Practice Mindfulness Anxiety is more like rushing waves, thoughts violently crashing your heart in rumbling noises. And everything one sees is “more troubles galloping towards them”. If your students are sinking into the whirlpool of maths anxiety, teaching them some mindfulness activities will help them calm their minds. Breathing exercises that direct all attention on breathing can help one reduce the rumbling thoughts about failing at solving maths problems. Rely on More Resources Aren’t we living in a technologically advanced world with more options to delve into? From YouTube videos to digital Maths groups, there are many ways to make learning engaging and hilarious. If the internet is available, resources are just one tap away. Let your children try different resources and learn at their own pace. Teach to Embrace Mistake Mistakes happen to everyone. Scolding will only worsen their fears, and further discourage them to step back to corners. Teach your students to be okay with mistakes and help them correct them. Mistakes shouldn’t be mistaken as weaknesses, but rather a step toward learning more. It’s better to make mistakes and learn than fear and tear off the courage to do it.

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5 Educational Toys For Kids To Enhance Their Learning Skills With Fun!

0 Wanna boost your child’s creativity? Kids love immersing themselves in the world of toys. From building blocks to Magna tiles, there are some educational toys to water the creative room of their brain. Apart from boosting their learning skills, these toys also improve their senses. If you’re worried about your child being addicted to technology, you should immediately surprise them with toys to divert and engage them in fun-filled playtime. Puzzles Puzzles are entertaining to everyone. Buying puzzles of their favorite animated movie or character can make their heart go pitter-patter with the urge to fit the puzzle pieces as soon as possible. This will help them immensely in developing their cognitivity. The puzzles also sprout curiosity to solve problems, and the finished puzzles fuel confidence in children. Magna tiles Here are magnetic titles to magnetize fun and creativity! Magna tiles come in translucent, bright colors and intriguing shapes to keep kids immersed in the creative world. Kids can sink in their imagination and craft castles, pyramids, and many other amazing things. Magna tiles boost the creativity as well as the cognitive of kids. Geosafari Jr If you want your kids to be immersed in the world of science, Geosafari Jr can help you excite them. The talking Geosafari gives feedback about the object being viewed, encouraging kids to explore the wonders of nature and learn more about it. This remarkable educational toy also nurtures language skills as well as improves one’s fine motor skills. Building Blocks Building blocks help kids build their own world with different shapes and colors of blocks. Blocks not only keep them engaged but also enhance their creative skills and reward your child with a plethora of other benefits like problem-solving skills, improved concentration, spatial awareness, enhanced hand-eye coordination, etc. Science kits Science kits nurture curiosity in kids to explore more. Science kits come in different types. If your child is interested in exploring the wonders of nature, a biology science kit will thrill them to the brim. Or is your kid someone who loves laboratory test tubes? If yes, let them immerse in a chemistry science kit packed with tubes, thermometers, funnels, beakers, pipettes, goggles, gloves, and many more.

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Headspace to Storybird: 5 Tech Tools To Activate Classrooms!

0 We live in a world where technology is reigning with its tremendous power while traditional methods are fading into the cobwebbed corner of boredom. From educating to entertaining, technology enormously serves us, helps us, and keeps us immersed. So why not introduce educational tech tools to your students and supercharge them with striking skills, burning curiosity, and many more? Headspace We are all worried and stressed about something or other. Emotions often lash down on us like hurricanes, and it’s not always easy to keep them from spilling. Learning to calm emotions is as important as learning other lessons in school. Headspace is such an intriguing tool that will help students meditate and practice mindfulness. Regular meditation and other mindfulness practices will enrich their daily lives, by helping them ease stress, anxiety, and other mental discomforts. Duolingo Who could grab more opportunities than one who speaks more languages? Introduce Duolingo to the students, and tell them to invest 10-30 minutes daily to learn a new language. Duolingo makes it easy for learners to swallow lessons by offering customized assessments. Encourage students to compete and learn more languages with Duolingo. Booklets Here comes the educational tool packed with fun. Who doesn’t like immersing themselves in games? Booklets let you customize according to your educational topic. Students can play together, have fun while competing to score the best. Game-based tools like booklets not only engage the students but also make them curious to explore and learn more. If students are curious, teaching and learning become more fun. Remind Remind lets you update or remind the class about upcoming tests and many more. With Remind, it gets easier to reach out to parents when it’s necessary. This app ensures privacy without revealing one’s personal contact. Apart from text messages, photos can also be attached. Storybird If you want to nurture creative writing skills in students, no platform can help you more than Storybird. Storybird is a platform that lets students craft their own stories as well as read other wonderfully woven stories written and shared by others. This platform will enhance students’ vocabularies and encourage them to immerse in the realms of their imagination.

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Homeschooling: Best Online Resources For Parents To Enrich Your Children’s Education

0 Are you afraid of your child being exposed to the negative environment of school where bullying, competition, and peer pressure are something almost inevitable? Or are you someone who constantly relocates as a part of your job? If anything is scorching your head and you’re thinking of schooling your child within the comfort of your lovely home, here’s the list of the best online resources to enhance the experience of homeschooling. Khan Academy Khan Academy is a reputed resource that you can freely rely on to nurture your kid’s education. From Maths to art, this educational site will help your child with all subjects delivered through comprehensive YouTube videos. If you’re looking for free and qualified educational content, why not hustle to create an account on Khan Academy? Funbrain Are you looking for a fun-filled online resource to make your kids enjoy learning? If yes, a fun brain is chock-a-block with entertaining games, books, videos, and even comics. Your kids will learn important lessons while having fun. These interactive games will enhance problem-solving skills, and reading skills, improve vocabulary, and many more within the comfort of your house. Newsela Newsela uniquely nurtures your kids with articles. These articles are designed to enhance one’s reading while updating your kids with current events. Apart from reading, there are comprehensive tests to further polish the skills. Though most articles are available for free, there are articles accessible to only paid users. Easy Peasy All-In-One School Here comes an easy peasy online resource crafted by a homeschooling parent named Lee Giles. This educational resource offers a full curriculum from preschool to grade 12. If you’re a Christian who values education with Bible teachings, Easy Peasy will help you lead your kids on the right path. You can either print out the chapters or buy those textbooks at a cheap rate to enrich the learning experience of homeschooling. Storyline Who doesn’t like to listen to wonderful stories narrated in a captivating way? Storyline is for kids who love bedtime stories. With stories wonderfully read by famous people, this educational resource will help your kids with polishing language skills. Listening skills in a second language is something hard to acquire, but with the storyline, it gets easier to nurture it.

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Jeremy to Tears In Heaven: Heart-wrenching Songs Inspired By Real Life Incidents!

0 Do you enjoy immersing in intensely crafted lines flowing with captivating music? One that stirs your soul with fiercely rushing emotions? If yes, why not listen to songs taken from the tragic sea of real-life incidents? From Jeremy to Tears in Heaven, here are some soul-stirring songs to add to your playlist. Jeremy Jeremy by Pearl Jam is an excruciating song that spills the themes of bullying and suicide. This song is inspired by the suicide of a forlorn sophomore who shot himself in front of his classmates, back in 1991. Each line, woven with heart-rending words, was written from a classmate’s perspective. The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald Here comes a song that memorialises the tragic disappearance of Edmund Fitzgerald in 1971. The incident caused by the catastrophic storm took the lives of all crewmen in the Lake freighter. Gordon Lightfoot crafted this song after reading the news article about this shipwreck, titled as “The Cruellest Month” appeared in Newsweek magazine. The song woven with strings of details is appreciated for its striking accuracy. Fire And Rain James Taylor’s Fire And Rise is a song that covers more than one incident. From the suicide of his childhood friend Suzanne to his addiction to drugs, the song revealed Taylor’s mental battles during the initial years of his career. Though the song outpours the depression and struggles sprouted by his initial failure, his songs later gained popularity and made him a renowned singer. Hey Jude Hey Jude by The Beatles is a song woven to lift a young boy from sinking into sorrow. McCartney couldn’t bear to see John Lennon’s son being beaten at such an excruciating time due to the separation of his parents. Though the song was originally sung to the boy as “Hey Jules”, it was changed to “Hey Judes” for the rhythmic flow and beat. Tears in Heaven Tears in Heaven crafted by Eric Clapton is another tragic song with the depth to stir the hearts of listeners. Clapton knitted the songs from his own tragic incident where his beloved son fell out of the window of the 53rd floor, breaking Clapton’s heart into pieces. In Tears in Heaven, Clapton asks his son, “Would you know my name? If I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?”.

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Tips to Enhance Classroom Environment To Shine (For Kids)!

0 Classrooms should be a place brimming up with positivity, stirring students’ curiosity to learn and chase after academic goals. From introducing collaborative learning to applying positive reinforcement, there are many ways to mould a positive environment in the classroom where students can easily climb the ladder to their dreams. A positive environment can not only engage the students but also make teaching hilariously interesting. Introduce Collaborative Learning What could be more engaging than collaborative learning? Collaborative learning is more important to mould a strong connection between students where you teach them to ride together in the track for hitting academic goals. This also comes with a cornucopia of benefits for students, like enhancing communication skills, social interaction, creativity etc. Group projects also stirs students’ curiosity to complete the task within a short period of time. Allow Feedback Let the students give feedback about the teacher’s performance and presentation of topics. Feedbacks will help teachers improve their teaching methods as well as students can get their doubts clarified enough to swallow. Allowing students to give feedback can also enhance the student-teacher relationship where hesitation to ask questions will gradually fade away. Establish Active learning Methods Active learning methods can activate classrooms with positive energy. Introducing game based learning or blending technology to engage students in the classroom can make learning an amusing activity to indulge in. When learning becomes an activity charged with curiosity, it becomes easy for the students to learn and earn their academic goals. Enhance Physical Environment Physical environment plays a major role in magnetising a positive vibe. From creating vision boards to decorating walls to installing mini libraries, style classrooms with everything that makes students eager to explore the realms of knowledge. Ensuring access to books and involving students in enhancing the environment can also encourage them to engage with other students, resulting in strong unity among students. Positive Reinforcement Positive reinforcement is important to keep students motivated and engaged. Compliment students for every little effort they put in. Comfort them and console them when things are not up to expectations. Don’t forget to keep eyes on the ones who move like snails, appreciate them for the little attempts they make though fruitless. Positive reinforcement can water confidence in students, and they’ll gradually be in a position to easily succeed in every academic goal.

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Super Why to Word Girl: 5 Educational Cartoons To Nurture Your Kid’s Learning Skill

0 Does your kid get thrilled to immerse in the animated world of fictional characters? From Super Why to Word Girl, there are some educational cartoons packed with fun-spilling adventures. These animated series will nurture your child’s brain to spell words, develop imagination and instill the curiosity to delve into the wonders of the world. If you’re excited to see them learn and shine, here’s a list of cartoons to show them! Super Why! Super Why is for the ones who enjoy “Superhero” cartoons soused with fun-jammed adventures. In this unique educational cartoon, your kids will be taken to adventures through books. The incredible blend of magic, adventure, and education will grab your child’s attention and help them learn word after word. Dora the Explorer Dora the Explorer revolves around Dora, Boots, and their adventurous journey to their destination. The series will make your child clap, tap, dance, sing, and swirl with Dora while involving them in the adventure where they’re mostly encouraged to repeat words along with Dora. The constant repetitions of words will immensely help them comprehend and spell things. From talking bags to maps, every little thing is hilariously presented to keep toddlers engaged. The Magic School Bus Here comes another adventurous cartoon with explorational journeys. The Magic School Bus is an interesting TV series that centers around Ms. Frizzle and her field trips with eight students. From the wonders of the sky to the miracles beneath the ocean, the series will nurture your child’s curiosity while introducing them to science and nature. Numberblocks Kids love seeing everything with their eyes and hands. In Numberblocks, number blocks talk and amuse kids with hilariously gripping games, songs, and puzzles. Your kids will surely love the Numberland planet, and be thrilled to dive into the mathematical adventures. Word Girl If you’re looking for a way to enhance your child’s vocabulary, Word Girl can help your child by immersing them in a fun-packed adventure. Each episode will introduce some vocabulary and will teach your kids on “how” and “when” to use them. Some cartoons teach words, but Word Girl will also teach the appropriate context to use them.

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5 Fascinating Facts About Education That We Bet You Didn’t Know!

0 Are you someone who loves devouring knowledge? Is someone curious to discover facts and stats? If yes, have you heard about the largest school in the world? Ever imagined floating schools? So here are some of the fascinating facts about education to widen your knowledge again! Oldest University In India Nalanda University, nestled in Bihar, is believed to be the oldest university in the world. This ancient university, built back in the 5th century during the magnificent era of Gupta, also shines for being the first residential university. Around 10,000 students were taught from here. The sprawling libraries of this magnificent building housed around nine million books. Currently, the mind-blowing site of this university is considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Finland School System Are you someone who often puts on your thinking cap and questions the flaws of our school system? Ever imagined any appropriate system? Well! Finland has an intriguing system where the children start school only when they hit 7 years old. Before the age of 7, Finnish children indulge in creative and physical activities. Also, Finnish students are lucky enough to have 15 minutes of break after every 45 minutes of class. Largest School In the World Here comes the largest school “City Montessori School” nestled in Lucknow. CMS houses around 55, 547 students, grabbing a position in Guinness World Book. You’ll be surprised to know that during its initial days, back in 1959, Dr Jagadish Gandhi and his wife taught the students from their own house by seating five children in a room. This school has also garnered the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. Boat Schools in Bangladesh You must be familiar with houseboats, but have you ever imagined floating schools, libraries, and many more? Bangladesh has an astounding fleet of boat schools that let students swallow chapters while breathing the view. These floating schools serve as both school buses and schoolhouses, with 30 students in each boat. Longest Homework Are you someone who gets annoyed when completing homework? Well! Be grateful that you don’t have 14 hours of homework in a week. Chinese students have to spend so much time on a staggering amount of homework. According to reports, teenagers in China invest at least two hours every day to complete their homework.

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Back-to-School: Creative First-Day Activities For A Fun-Filled, Fabulous Beginning!

0 Some students want their first day to be as free as an ocean while other students sit as silent as mice with slices of back-to-school anxiety. But as a teacher, you need to put on your thinking cap and find creative ways to engage students and ensure a fun-filled, fabulous beginning. From Name Game to Two Truths and a Lie, here’s the list of first-day activities to make your students go pitter-patter! Name Game If you’ve heard of the Netflix Series Anne With An E, you must be familiar with “the name game” that Miss Stacy made her students play on her first day. Well! So students have to come up with adjectives starting with the first letters of their names. For example, Anne Shirley Cuthbert is Academic, Spirited, and Creative. Writing a Letter to Your Future Self What could be more interesting than writing a letter to one’s future self? Let them pour their expectations and dreams for the academic year ahead, about the scores they’ll earn and the person they’ll become by the end of the year. Writing letters can enhance their writing skills as well as the realms of their imagination. Collect those letters and distribute them once they’re done with the academic year, they’ll be surprised to read the letters from their past selves. Scavenger Hunt Scavenger Hunt is a hilariously interesting game to make your students connect with the school environment. The touring school experience will break the ice and engage the students, turning their first day into a fun-packed day to remember. Scavenger Hunt will also break the gap between students and cement it with beer and Skittles. Would You Rather ? Would you rather let students have a creatively hilarious first day or make them drift straight into lessons? Here comes “the would you rather” fun-filled questions! By playing this game, you’ll get to know your students better, and also it’ll help students connect. For example: Ask them, “Would you rather be a superhero or someone invisible?” and encourage the students to delve into deep thoughts regarding this. Two Truths And a Lie This is going to make the whole class busy with guessing and chortling! Each student has to write two truths and one believable lie about themselves and let others find out which among them is a lie. This game will also help each other know better.

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