This handbook is intended to provide educators, community leaders and parents with articles that outline best research and practice around schools and family and community engagement. It offers a roadmap to esnure that every student's academic, personal, social and emotional development is supported.
Material Type: Reading
This lesson plan walks students through the copyright licenses and open educational resources. Students will learn how to author resources using the OER Commons platform, align them to standards, and evaluate them using the Achieve Rubrics.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This inquiry project is dedicated to inform people how parent involvement can positively and negatively effect students but also how parents can get involved.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Most studies examining influences on parent involvement focus on common demographic factors, such as social class or gender, and on elementary grades. In the present study, we investigated a more malleable influence, perceptions of ability, in the context of middle school. We examined how perceptions held by parents, teachers, and students concerning students' academic abilities affected parents' involvement and teachers' facilitation of school programs for involvement.
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Students who regularly complete and turn in homework assignments perform significantly better in school than those of similar ability who do not do homework (Olympia et al., 1994). Homework is valuable because it gives students a chance to practice, extend, and entrench the academic skills taught in school. Parents can be instrumental in encouraging and motivating their children to complete homework. This homework contract intervention (adapted from Miller & Kelly, 1994) uses goal-setting, a written contract, and rewards to boost student completion (and accuracy) of homework. Students also learn the valuable skills of breaking down academic assignments into smaller, more manageable subtasks and setting priorities for work completion.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This professional development course is a series of Next Generation Science Standards-focused workshops developed by IslandWood with funding from the OSPI ClimeTime Grant. A PowerPoint slide deck and accompanying handouts are available to supplent the course outline.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This is an overview of a dramatic play store/bakery center. It includes description, purpose, suggested materials, questioning examples, considerations, photo examples, literature connections and downloadable resources.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This unit examines the area of the brain based learning with a particular focus on the development of the young child's brain and is of particular relevance to those who work with young children. We begin by looking at the structure and functions of the brain, and the impact that sensory deprivation can have on these. We consider the implications of current understandings of brain development for teaching and learning, particularly in an early years setting, and finish by exploring the value of play (particularly outdoor play) in children's learning and the development of their brains.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
We use the term knowing in doing to refer to the knowledge children spontaneously use in their play activity. In the richly detailed context of play, children do not think, then act, as i planning their play some sequential, deliberate way. Rather, their play activity stems from the creative synergy of the moment. It is shaped by the here and now, the just-previous activity, and all sorts of ideas and notions accrued from past experience.
Material Type: Assessment, Reading
In this article, two topics are reviewed: to reveal children's knowing in doing during literacy-related play; and to affirm the significance of play as a literacy opportunity for young children.
Material Type: Reading
This resources provides information about setting up a construction site dramatic play center. Resources, question prompts, literature recommendations, picture examples, and downloadable resources are included.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This is part of a series of six documents from Mount Vernon School District educators that provide lessons that integrate Washington's Social Emotional Learning and Physical Education learning standards along with educator guidance and strategies.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Creator: Amaal A
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Social-Emotional Learning is essential for work and school environments. Since it is the transition to high school, this is very important at the middle school level. Students will learn how to be self-aware and build healthy relationship skills. Once the entire social-emotional lesson is completed, the students learn how to: work with others, build resiliency, achieve goals, reduce bullying, and prevent risky behaviours. Vanessa Matthiessen, Parker Eklund, and Sarra Choucair
Material Type: Assessment, Game, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Creators: Sarra Choucair, Parker Eklund, Vanessa Matthiessen
Material Type: Game, Lesson Plan
Emotions are important. Students will work in groups to come up with an example of how an emotion can help us in our daily lives and oppositely how an emotion could hinder us. Students will use chart paper to make a one-pager poster of their example. After, students can gallery walk and present their ideas.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan
Social Emotional Learning is considered the most important topic in Education.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Case Study, Data Set, Diagram/Illustration, Full Course, Game, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lecture, Lecture Notes, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Primary Source, Reading, Simulation, Student Guide, Syllabus, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Textbook, Unit of Study
This resource includes both steps of a 2-part activity designed to get students reflecting on their learning and what they can do to help themselves and each other. Students are asked to post their answers on a Padlet wall created by the teacher. This activity can be used in face-to-face classrooms as well as adjusted for online.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Student Guide
