Strategies for ADHD Students
Every classroom has students who struggle with staying focused in school, whether or not students have a diagnosis of ADHD. The focusing...
Helping Children Regulate Their Emotions
When children have extreme reactions or temper-tantrums, it can be extremely overwhelming for teachers to handle day after day. Teachers need to...
How to get students to stop talking too much
Have you ever wondered how to get students to stop talking too much and after trying all your normal tricks, nothing seems...
Teaching kids how to be kind
Teaching kids how to be kind is one of the most important things we can do as teachers, and it doesn’t have...
What are feelings and how do we handle them?
What are feelings and how do we handle them? Children don’t come to us understanding what their emotions are or how they...
Teaching Listening Skills at the Start of the Year
Teaching listening skills at the start of the year is so important it is actually the first social emotional skill that I...
What does Empathy Mean to a Kindergartener?
Empathy is the hardest social emotional skill for young children to learn because developmentally young children have difficulty taking perspectives. Knowing the...
Why Respect is Important in the Classroom
Teaching students social emotional skills is so important in every classroom and at every age. Today I’m going to teach you why...
Why Cooperation is Important in the Classroom
Are your students struggling to work or play together? They probably need to learn cooperation. In this blog post I am going...
Helping Kids Make Good Choices
Children don’t naturally know what the expectations are and how they should follow them. They need to be explicitly taught this. Teachers...