In a matter of a week or two, your day-to-day life has been turned upside down. School has now gone online for the foreseeable future, everyone is sheltering in place, and social distancing is the new norm. As an educator, you’re now tasked with developing brand new lesson plans suited for online teaching (after a crash course in online course development) while juggling your own childcare or children’s schooling, working from home, and taking care of yourself and your family.
America has been obsessed with student standardized tests for nearly 20 years. Now it looks like the country is at the beginning of the end of our high-stakes testing mania — both for K-12 “accountability” purposes and in college admissions.
Helping anxious students change their negative thinking patterns can reduce stress and improve their performance. Anxiety is the most prevalent mental health disability affecting students across the United States. In fact, research suggests that almost a third of the country’s adolescents have struggled with an anxiety disorder during their childhood (Merikangas et al., 2010). However, few teachers receive significant training in their teacher preparation programs in mental health and behavioral best practices. By and large, teachers are left on their own to learn about the effects of anxiety on learning and behavior and to figure out how to address it in the classroom.
I needed to change the policies and procedures of our IEP meetings. After a lot of relationship building and professional learning, we were able to move the pendulum and make significant changes in the way we do business as a community of learners during our IEP meetings!!
Teaching Music Online Song.mp4
A Music Teacher Processes Her Transition toOnline Teaching by Writing This Song …..