Teaching Strategies

Strategies for diverse learners in elementary education by Ozobot

How Teachers Can Balance Diverse Learners in a Packed Classroom

As classroom sizes grow, teachers are contending with more learning styles and abilities in one room. This is especially prevalent in elementary schools, where students are sorted based on age rather than knowledge level. This creates classroom management problems, where teachers are left trying to challenge high-performers while making sure struggling students keep up. How …

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Future-Ready Skills: Teaching Critical Thinking In the Era of Fake News

This year, Ozobot is tackling future-ready skills. These are the skills that will always be in demand, no matter how much technology changes our society. In past articles, we have looked at creativity and teamwork as skills that students will need no matter where their careers take them. Here, we discuss critical thinking. Critical thinking …

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Why Teamwork is a Future-Proof Skill for All Students

Effective teamwork and collaboration are skills that will be part of every student’s future career. Most people work in teams, not on their own. This goes for small business owners, who must cooperate with their suppliers and their customers, as well as scientists, who have whole teams of researchers they collaborate with. As such, collaboration …

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20 best STEAM field trips in Birmingham for kids and year-end fun

20 End of Year STEAM Field Trips in Birmingham

Your students are aching to put down their books and enjoy a hands-on experience! The best way to remember content is with activities, adventures, and excursions. Fortunately, there are dozens of places in Birmingham to do this. It doesn’t matter what grade you teach or what your course materials are, there are great field trip …

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Introduce coding in every subject by Ozobot

How to Introduce Coding Into Every Subject — And Why You Should

For years, educators have placed coding in a technological box. Kids learn coding in the computer science classroom—which is either an elective in schools or not offered at all. There’s no space for programming in the music classroom, the language arts class, or in poetry lessons. However, as our knowledge and exploration of technology grows, …

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Future-ready skills help students succeed for life by Ozobot

What are Future-Ready Skills and How Can They Help Students Succeed?

If you ask an adult about the most important information they learned in school, they likely won’t cite a particular battle during the Civil War or what goes in the nucleus of a cell. Instead they will likely tell you about a skill they developed, a teacher who inspired them, or an overarching lesson they …

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Eight Books to inspire feminists in your classroom

Women’s History Month: Eight Books to Inspire Elementary-Age Feminists

Women’s History Month is a time to honor those women who fought to give girls the opportunities they have today. However, we tend to forget that history happens every day. History happens when a young woman enters the science lab, runs for city council or joins the football team. History happens when a teenager looks …

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Women’s History Month: The Top 30 Female and Female-Identifying Teachers to Follow on Twitter

Students get so much more out of the classroom than the set curriculum. They learn about societal norms, what they like and don’t like, and who they can be someday. Teachers have an enormous responsibility in educating the next generation, and many go above and beyond to create a safe, engaging classroom that promotes a …

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Tech TOSAs 101 top tips for teachers to succeed

Tech TOSAs 101: 10 Tips for Teachers on Special Assignment

What exactly IS a Tech TOSA? We are lucky to have two former Teachers on Special Assignment in our community of Ozobot educators, Amanda Taylor and Christina Whitmire, who sat down with us to explain the role in their own words and provide tips and tricks for new or aspiring Tech TOSAs. Amanda Taylor began her …

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How to discuss racism with younger students by Ozobot

Black History Month: How to Discuss Racism with Younger Students

Some teachers and school districts teach Black History Month exclusively as history. They start with slavery, work their way through the civil rights movement, and then stop after they name a few modern African American heroes. However, history is happening today, and more students than ever (including younger students) are turning to their teachers with …

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