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Teachers Need to MOVE Too! 5 Tips to Stay Active During the School Day
Most blogs on this site focus on ways to get students up and moving. While increasing activity in the classroom does engage minds and promote learning, it’s also important that [...]
Dynamic Classrooms on College Campuses
When most of us hear about an “active learning classroom”, we envision students engaged in physical activity as a means of recharging their brains or as a novel strategy for teaching an academic concept. But what about at the post-secondary level? Ever thought of that?
Winter Wakeup Call: How to Motivate Students When It’s Cold Outside
January and February have brought their fair share of snow days and illnesses to my classroom in Kentucky! My, otherwise, normally peppy students are starting to feel the effects of missed days, too many inside recesses, sickness, and early sunsets. The yawns start early in the day and continue throughout the afternoon. Here are some ways I’m trying to get over our winter weather behavior slump!
How Classroom Activity Improves Behavior and Test Scores
The first question I am asked when I present information on active seating and active classrooms is: Does it work? After teaching in a kinesthetic classroom and working at a school with four active classrooms, the answer is yes. In our school, it has shown to improve student behavior, grades, and test scores while keeping kids moving and happy.
Impress Parents with a Flexible Classroom!
When you walk into my classroom, you will see that some kids are bouncing on exercise ball chairs, some are rocking on wobble stools, and others are riding stationary bicycles. And yes, I said in my CLASSROOM.
Increase Test Scores with Classroom Movement Cues
Earlier this school year, my fifth-grade students spent the day learning about colonial America while also moving their bodies and engaging their minds. We used exercises to connect key vocabulary terms with specific movements. What an effective method to get them to remember the content! This was a great way to get students up and moving for thirty minutes!
Let’s Reverse Our Thinking On Classroom Activity
Let’s reverse our thinking. Instead of stressing about providing more, more, more for your students, how about if we think about it from a more straightforward approach? What if our goal is to have them sit still less?
A Teacher’s Perspective: Adding Flexible Seating in the Classroom
One trend in education that is taking the world (or schools) by storm is flexible seating and kinesthetic classrooms. This is a new trend that teachers of the past had not tried before, and it is one that will stick.
I have taught in a kinesthetic classroom for the past 3 years and honestly, I never plan to go back.
Increase Activity in School with a Movement Maze
Increase activity in school with a Movement Maze; a guided course outside of our classrooms that leads our students through a variety of purposeful movement. Students take a short break, utilize muscle groups, and re-enter the classroom ready to learn!
