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Benefits Of Memorize The Quran At A Young Age
Memorizing the Quran at a young age brings numerous benefits that can greatly impact a child’s life. It enhances their understanding of Islam and deepens their connection to their faith. Young children who memorize the Quran often develop better memory and concentration skills, which can also benefit them in other areas of study and contribute…
My God! I Can’t Believe How Much Time ChatGPT Is Now Going To Save Me In Creating One Of My Favorite Teaching Resources!
Earlier this year, I posted about a new strategy I was using to help teach English sentence structure to my ELL Newcomer students (see How I’m Adding A Twist To The Sentence Expansion Strategy In My ELL Newcomers Class). Basically, they’re sheets of five groups of sentences, and they are all expanding sentences that…
“The Collapse Of Insects”
RonBerg / Pixabay The Collapse of Insects is an interactive from Reuters that introduces itself with this line: The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble, with recent research suggesting insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For World Biodiversity Day…
Too hot for school
This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here. 109 on the first day of school? That was the case this year in Palm Springs, California, where parent Cyd Detiege has been campaigning to delay the start of the school year because of extreme heat. Palm Springs Unified District officials…
Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom
It started with a yawn. I saw it contagiously meander through the classroom. I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! How was it possible that my students weren’t enjoying this as much as I was? Could it be that they were…bored? Though…
The Role of Sleep in Learning & Forgetting
Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you understand how the brain learns? Learning is a self-organised process, deeply influenced by both the brain and environment. Understanding how it works could transform your teaching strategies. It totally has redefined everything I know about teaching! New research (Agamennoni & Schumacher, 2024) reveals that learning is not just about…
Four Theater Games that Make Learning a Blast
Listen to the interview with Jocelyn Greene: Sponsored by EVERFI and The Wired Classroom Picture this: A group of students stands in front of the class taking turns speaking confidently about the content they’ve been studying. But they’re not just kids anymore; they are news anchors, talk show hosts, or curators at an art gallery….
The Role Of Tech IN My ELL Classroom? Not Much, But That’s Not The Whole Story
geralt / Pixabay With the presence of peer tutors in my ELL Newcomers class (it’s almost a one-to-one ratio this year) and the vastly reduced class sizes for ELL classrooms successfully negotiated by our union (my numbers are now capped at twenty – I don’t even want to put into print how huge my…
Today Is The 61st Anniversary Of The Birmingham Church Bombing – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
mjimages / Pixabay Sixty-one years ago today four African-American girls were killed when their church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About The Birmingham Church Bombing, Sixty-one years ago today four African-American girls were killed when their church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. You…