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ScrapColoring: Creative name tags

As an elementary teacher, have you wondered how to make colorful name tags to decorate the classroom and welcome your students on the first day of school?

Go to ScrapColoring

2. Type your name and choose colors and patterns

3. End Product

4. You can also make a birthday picture for someone using this website.

5. End product

Another creative writing using the pictures

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Steps for Collective Well-Being in the New School Year

Teachers can rebuild connections and create an educational environment in which they support students and each other.

TAKE A HEALING-CENTERED APPROACH
MAKE TIME AT THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR TO (RE)BUILD CONNECTIONS Get to know your colleagues and students.
Acknowledge and greet each other
Humanize each other beyond school roles
Build a classroom that is grounded in collective values
Make time for check-ins
Listen to one another—and make sure everyone is heard
CONSIDER CEREMONY AND RITUAL TO COMMEMORATE THE PREVIOUS YEAR Reflect on the losses and challenges of the past year
Pause.
Have a moment of silence. Connect

Some reflection

I have been attending some workshop recently. Since COVID, most workshops were online. I feel strongly about in the field of education, it is not what you want, but what you DO. English is not my native language, and some workshop participants are not, but they are strive to express their thoughts even their English is not pretty good. On the other hand, as a Taiwanese, I am more conservative. I tried, but honestly, if I were them, it would be very difficult for me to express my ideas or I even felt embarrassed.

As educators, we often teach kids to be open-minded, but in the reality, we are not as open as thought….

In the upcoming semester,

Wishes: get along with kids as much as I can during COVID
Challenges: Under the uncertainty of COVID, do we need to implement hybrid learning or blended learning? How to cut down the screen time during current era?
Opportunities: COVID has changed our lives; it even strengthen our online teaching competency. I think I can advance my online teaching skills utilizing this special opportunoty.