7 Steps to School Selection Success: How Teachers Can Find Their Perfect Fit

As a teacher, school selection is crucial for both personal and professional growth. Finding the right school to work in can lead to a fulfilling career, promoting the development of both you and your students. In this article, we’ll provide realistic and important factors to consider when selecting a school for teaching, ensuring that you make the best decision possible.

1. Alignment of Educational Philosophy

During the school selection process, it’s essential to understand its educational philosophy and how it aligns with your own. Example: Alternate school, International school, CBSE school etc. Research the school’s mission statement, curriculum, and teaching methodologies. Ask yourself whether the school’s approach to education resonates with your personal beliefs and values as an educator.

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10+ Valentine’s Day activities in school

Valentine’s Day revolves around the theme of LOVE, so why not the little children understand love as an emotion? To begin with love of parents, love of sharing, love of learning. Most Important of all is to learn to be KIND to each other.

To make you understand better about this idea, below are some activities that centered around love, kindness, and friendship, which can help students develop emotional intelligence and understand their own emotions and of others around them.

1. VALENTINE’S DAY LOVE LETTERS

Children can design love letters for their parents. Teachers can encourage them to show their love for their parents.

Valentine’s Day Love Letter to Mum

2. SECRET ADMIRER: Encourage students to write secret admirer notes for one another. These can be delivered anonymously or with a name attached. This can be the same as the above activity. However, now admirers can be anyone.

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Scratch Coding Game For Kids

In this fast-growing world of technology, what is better than to know about Scratch Coding Games for kids? Scratch is a powerful tool that can help children as well as teachers to develop a wide range of skills that are essential for success in the digital age.

Scratch coding is a visual programming language and online community where users can create interactive games, animations, and simulations without the need to know complex programming languages.

  1. It is designed for children and beginners to learn the basics of programming concepts such as loops, conditionals, and variables.
  2. Users can create programs by dragging and dropping blocks of code that represent actions or commands onto a workspace.

Here is a sample game I have created using scratch coding!
(If you see a blue block below instead of the game, please reload the page and it should work.)

HOW IS SCRATCH CODING USEFUL FOR CHILDREN?

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Amazing Christmas activities for schools


Are you looking for exciting Christmas activities to liven up your school’s holiday celebrations? From craft projects and games to holiday-themed lessons and performances, there are many ways to bring the spirit of Christmas to your school. If you’re a teacher looking for ideas to include in your lesson plans or a parent searching for engaging ways to get your child in the holiday mood, these Christmas activities for schools are a perfect choice. So why wait? Start planning your school’s Christmas activities now, and get ready to spread some holiday cheer!

1. Make a gingerbread house cake: This is one of my favorite Christmas activities for schools. Have students make their own gingerbread houses using graham crackers, icing, and other edible decorations. To learn how to make an easy gingerbread house cake, you may have a look at this.

Christmas activities for schools - Gingerbread House Cake
Gingerbread House Cake

2. Making a Christmas volcano: In continuation with the first activity, conduct a holiday-themed science experiment, such as making a baking soda and vinegar “volcano” inside a gingerbread house model. we can do this to bring scientific temper in students, especially middle or higher classes.

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Role of parents in a child’s education

Parents must learn to trust their instincts and educate in ways that feel right for them and their children. I believe that when it comes to educating children, there are no hard-and-fast rules. Parents and teachers need to combine their efforts and understand each other’s roles to help children grow into mature and self-reliant adults. This article focuses on promoting “intentional parenting” and various FAQs between parents and a teacher.

Frequently asked questions between a parent and a teacher

Q.1 I’m a working parent. How can I help my child in their studies?

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Learning Centres in Schools

“Learning Centres, sometimes also referred to as learning stations, are separate learning spaces in the classroom set up to enable students to work independently of teacher and enjoy learning.”

Image 1.1 – Learning Centre Area

Learning centres can be constructed in any domain or across multiple domains and can be used at any level of education. Ex  Learning centre for mathematics, creativity, music, literacy, small world, etc.

Types of Learning Centre

The mode of categorization has been presented by Myers and Maurer (1987), who classify learning centres according to student responsibility:
 
(1) self-directing/self-correcting,
(2) self-directing/open-ended, and
(3) teacher instructed/exploratory

Self Directing/self-correcting 

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How to write remarks for school report card?

Writing remarks for a school report card is an important task for any teacher. If you’re seeking ideas to help you write remarks for a school report card that are strong and informative, consider the following tips for crafting effective and insightful comments.

1. A remark is a positive and encouraging sentence for the student to work more and become better. Eg – _______ is a brilliant and impeccable child.

2. It should never be a negative sentence, and it should not make students feel guilty, ashamed, or weak. Negative labeling should always be avoided at any cost. Eg, _______ is a mischievous and short-tempered child.

3. At the end of a sentence, words like ” Keep shining, Keep blooming, Fly high, Keep it up, keep growing, etc.” adds beauty to the remarks.

4. Every student should get a unique remark which will tell them about their strength and weakness. As a teacher, it is our responsibility to observe children’s qualities. Give respect to them and appreciate them for any small or big work in the classroom.

5. For weak areas, we can give them some challenges and tell them they have a lot of potential to grow.
Eg – Your observation skills are good, and you seem to be brimming with confidence, but have you set yourself sufficiently high goals? Perhaps now is the time to consider a new challenge of growing in writing skills as well.

Example on how to write remarks for school report card
Example of a Remark on Report Card

Image source: https://www.wikihow.com/Write-Report-Card-Comments

Some general remarks and Math subject remarks for Nursery to class 1 are given below:

Write general remarks for school report card:

1. _______ is an inquisitive and soft-spoken child. She/He gives good examples in class by connecting her/his knowledge to her/his personal experiences. She/He needs to be more attentive in the classroom. Keep shining! Well done!


2. ________ is an amicable and motivated child. He/She asks thoughtful questions and puts her best effort into completing the classroom assignments. Well done! Keep it up!

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