Three tips you can try to increase your student’s attention span and keep them engaged are:- 1)minimise distractions, 2)keep your lessons/activities interesting and engaging and 3)’switching channels’ when you start to lose them.   Here’s an article of interest concerning over decorated classrooms.   If you want to connect with other listeners, please visit our new Facebook group.

EoT020 : How to Help Young Children Overcome a Short Attention Span

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I’ll be hosting a free webinar on ‘Setting limits and ground rules in the classroom that children would (gladly) follow’ this week and you can register for it HERE.   I will be sharing tips for teachers who’d like to know how to manage a classroom better – starting with setting ground rules. So if you’re feeling:- -overwhelmed […]

EoT053 : What to Do When Children Interrupt Us During Lessons in Class

Molly asked a question about managing inappropriate behavior in the classroom. I have shared two areas that she (or any early childhood educator for that matter) could benefit from if they spent a bit more time working on those skills. I’ve been getting quite a lot of emails and messages from early childhood educators about […]

EoT052 : When working with young children becomes a nightmare…..classroom management gone terribly wrong

We have a question from an early childhood educator regarding managing children’s behavior. Jennifer wants to know how we can help children who have destructive behaviors in the classroom and I shared with her two very important things that she will need to do: Research Address underlying cause Now as simple as this sounds, it’s […]

EoT051 : Dealing with Misbehavior in the Classroom

Today’s question was sent in by a Reggio Emilia teacher named Philipa from Australia and she has asked about what to do when teachers can’t get children to wait for their turn to talk. In this podcast, I share 4 steps to implementing some ground rules into the classroom so that you can create a […]

EoT050 : Classroom Management Skills 101; Getting children to wait for their turn to speak

For this week, we have the honour of having the most talented Jason R Levine on our show where he shares about how he got started with his rather unconventional method of teaching English (that is super fun and effective….if I may add), how it has helped so many and how we can tap into his […]

EoT020 : How to Help Young Children Overcome a Short Attention Span

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