Creative Teaching Ideas/ Techniques

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Establishing Relationships
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T-shirt collage

Purpose: To make the class more user-friendly. How to do it?

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Supply each pupil with a pre-drawn T-shirt pattern on a sheet of paper. Suggest them to magazine pictures, markers and crayons to design the shirt that represents who they are.

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Using Visual Cues to Communicate and Give Directions

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Color-Coded Signs

Purpose: To quietly signal the class to be aware of or change their behavior How to do it? Use laminated squares of 8"x8" color paper
. Yellow . Red

: Keep Your Volume Down. : You are working pretty good.

: Stop everything and calm down.

. Green

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Using Visual Cues to Communicate and Give Directions

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"High Five" and "Thumbs Up" Signs

Purpose: Pupils get tired of hearing "good job. How to do it?

. Make

a photocopy of a handprint for a "high five" and a black line drawing of a "thumbs up."

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Individual Classroom Management Techniques

1. Good Job jar Purpose: To promote positive behaviour among pupils. How to do it?
1. 2. 3. 4.

Individual students who are being role models receive slips of paper. They write their names on the slips and place them in the jar. At least once a week, pull a few names from the "Good Job" jar. Pick any simple incentive that works well for you.

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Individual Classroom Management Techniques

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How Full is Your Bucket (Bucket Fillers vs. Bucket Dippers)

Purpose: To build class morale. How to do it?

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Create a classroom bucket, laminate it, and place it on the notice board in the classroom. When pupils have done something which delights the teacher, they become the bucket fillers; thus,they write their names onthe bucketwithdry erase markers.

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Individual Classroom Management Techniques

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Find Something to Praise in Everyone

Even if the work wasnt great, a child put lots of effort into creating it. (Postman, n.d. as cited in Saitz, n.d.)
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