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🧵 Here's a list of random little things I do as a teacher that actually have weirdly strong impacts on student behavior, engagement, and motivation.
I'd love to hear yours in the comments.
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Learned about Clerihew poems with a third grade class today. We wrote this one as a class. Some contenders for rhyming words were fart/art and stink/ink. They wanted to use booger but they had no rhyme for it. 😂😂😂
After doing this one together, each student made their own.