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Games to Welcome Students Back to School

Returning to school can be an anxious time for many students (and teachers.) In this article, you will learn some of the most effective group…

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What Students Need Coming Back to School

Students in the southern hemisphere have started coming back to school in what will be their third year impacted by the COVID19 pandemic. After a…

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Connecting Students When They Come Back to School

The northern hemisphere is waking up and students are returning to the classroom. In most places, this will be face-to-face, while in others, the practice…

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COVID19 Safe Back to School Activities

With much of the northern hemisphere about to return to school amid continued uncertainty about the current COVID19 pandemic, it is clear that many schools…

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Back To School Program Templates

Starting school can be a fun, yet stressful time for students and teachers alike. New schools, new people, new routines, etc. It is also a…

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Redefining ‘Back-to-School’ Programming

Two weeks ago, I shared links to a bunch of useful articles that would help many educators prepare themselves and their students for the return-to-school…

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Best Back-to-School Programs for Class of 2023

Almost like clockwork, as the northern hemisphere wakes up from a long, lazy summer, I notice a big jump in user enquiries, not to mention…

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Back-To-School Activity Ideas that Help Students Reconnect

Over the next month or two, tens of millions of students will return to classes across the northern hemisphere. Summer is a long break, but…

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Attn: Aussie Teachers – Back-To-School Program Ideas

You can never have enough activity ideas to keep students busy, especially when they have just come back from holidays and are still getting used to…

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Back-To-School Games & Activities: Lesson #5

In my opinion, if it’s not fun, it’s not worth doing. Fun (or FUNN) attracts students’ willing participation, it’s contagious, and it’s very hard to…

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Back-To-School Games & Activities: Lesson #4

One of the best ways to encourage a supportive and helpful classroom environment is to focus on developing these skills among your students actively. And…

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Back-To-School Games & Activities: Lesson #3

Simply introducing a small number of interactive games on the first day of school is not nearly enough to help students settle into their new…

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Back-To-School Games & Activities: Lesson #2

At the start of the new school year, one or more students are often new to the classroom. Playing a series of fun, interactive games…

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Back-To-School Games & Activities: Lesson #1

First impressions count, right? Your students want the first days of their new school year to be fun and exciting, and as their teacher, you…

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Counterintuitive Feedback Question

As a young student, I did okay at school. I regularly scored well on tests and the like and would come home with excellent reports….

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4 Inspiring TED Talks to Welcome the New School Year

I’ve been an avid watcher of TED Talks for many years. I treat them like tiny morsels of nutrition to feed and inspire my day…

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Why play is making a comeback

I recently stumbled across this post, describing why play is making a comeback, which was first published on PBS in the United States: Click here –>…

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Start of School Year ‘Orientation’ programs

Teachers in the southern hemisphere are gearing up for the start of the new school term this week. For some simple, highly interactive activity ideas…

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More Play, Less School

Here’s a MUST READ ESSAY from Dr Peter Gray, professor of psychology at Boston College, which implores educational systems around the world to introduce more…

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6 Tips for Making Online Discussions Effective

This month, it is believed that close to half of all students in the United States will resume their schooling from a remote, home-based learning…

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Icebreaker Games for Small Groups

Have you noticed that most icebreakers seem to be designed for large groups, ie groups of 20 or more people? In this post, you will…

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Fun & Meaningful Farewell or Closing Activities

We are all aware of the impact of making a good first impression. The same can also be said of the impact of how we…

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What are the Latest Trends in Education?

A few weeks back, a playmeo member asked me what I knew about current educational trends. That is a great question, I thought. I had…

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