Strategies for helping students staying calm during stressful times by NCMPI.https://challengingbehavior.cbcs.usf.edu/docs/Stay-Calm_Infographic.png Synapse Early Learning Systems is here to give you tips to help with all the challenges of teaching.Follow our Podcast, Every’s Child’s Champion to learn more strategies on how to be a Champion to Your Students.https://www.facebook.com/groups/everychildschampion
Read moreHere are some Calming Down Tips from NCPMI that you can use with your students and share with their parents. Synapse Early Learning Systems is here to support all our teachers.Follow our Podcast, Every Child’s Champion to learn more strategies on how to be a Champion to your students.https://www.facebook.com/groups/everychildschampion
Read moreThis week we are reviving part of our first broadcast on “How to enjoy your job”. Our world has really changed, and so has teaching! A year ago, we would have thought things couldn’t get any more stressful when it came to the work we do and juggling it all with families, education, etc…..None of us was prepared for a
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Teachers, as you return to school for the Pre-K or Head Start school year, creating and teaching the children solid routines will be the most important thing you can do to help everyone get off to a smooth start. Each main part of your daily schedule should have a planned routine with some key things included: 1) How will it begin? 2)
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Drawn from the e-book “Think UP! Developing High Level Instructional Supports – A Guidebook for Coaches and Instructional Leaders,” this episode looks at teacher intentionality. In this podcast, Sara Beach, M. ED from Synapse Early Learning System discusses the benefits of pushing oneself, as a teacher, to become more intentional, and what this means. Using some real classroom examples, we promote taking the initiative
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Engaging with Kids in Concept Development. Are you worried about the new school year?How can you engage your students? How can you prevent them from acting bored and messing around when they should be listening? For answers to these questions and more we are reviewing, Every Child’s A Champion Podcast #7, How to Make Learning a Ton More Fun! Engaging With
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MATH IN DAILY EVENTSYou do not need a math station to teach numbers and math concepts. Math is everywhere. Math can be used in non math activities. Sara Beach, M. ED from Synapse Early Learning System shows us how to use math words and concepts as part of your students daily routine, transitions, mealtime, large groups, and all throughout your day. She reviews
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Math CAN Be Fun to Teach! Math is a subject a lot of teachers either shy away from or don’t really know how or what to teach. Yet, research has shown that early Math skills are predictive of later math AND reading achievement; there is a strong tie between children’s expressive vocabulary and their math learning in Pre-K. Sara Beach,
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For months now our routines have been disrupted with the extended stay at home order and continued progression of COVID-19. Stress and anxieties levels are high while parents and teachers navigate working from home, distance learning, and trying to find our routines in our chaotic situations. We all depend on routines, starting with what we do as soon as we
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