Resources for Educators
Teaching Tip
From the Teacher’s Aide Newsletter
2002 Summer
Creative Classroom
- Keep resources in a handy binder. Include meditations, class exercises, teaching tools, and self-exploration projects.
- Role play, small groups, and partnering assist the interpersonal and playful learners.
- Keep resources in a handy binder. Include meditations, class exercises, teaching tools, and self-exploration projects.
- Present, present, present: Students learn while they teach. Have students prepare lectures from the reading material or research a topic they are interested in that isn t covered in the curriculum.
- Hold classes outside occasionally.
- Break up the monotony with moving meditations such as a simple Chi Kung exercise.
- Be willing to “play” with your students; they are more willing to try something new when you are at ease with them.
- Discuss learning styles and design projects that work with each learning style.
- Play instrumental music during group activities or writing exercises.
- Change the routine or seating arrangement.
- Promote personal integration through journaling.
- Instruct students to write responses to questions or list key points on Post-It Notes®. Then students arrange them (by topic or importance) on a wall.
- Short meditations can be great for refocusing the class or for inspiration.
Try Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life, by Jon Kabat-Zinn. - Hold “round-robin” reviews with students standing.