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Leap Day, Leap Year - Teaching Ideas.
Are you discussing Leap Year with your learners? Thursday 29th February 2024 is Leap Day, an extra day in calendar.
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Karen Walstra
- Mar 7, 2023
- 1 min
Learning Spaces: Caves, Waterholes and Fireside, for your Learners
Learning Spaces: Caves, Waterholes and Fireside, for your Learners - how and where do your learners learn
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Karen Walstra
- Jun 5, 2022
- 5 min
School Environment and Technology
Create a learning environment, in your school garden often the first impression of visitors see. A resource we don’t use enough.
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Karen Walstra
- Jul 17, 2021
- 5 min
Examples Of Being Truly Responsible Citizens
Inspire learners to be responsible citizens. Thousands of people in communities are assisting with clean up after protests and looting.
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Karen Walstra
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
Earth Day 2021 - Restore Our Earth
Earth Day 22 April get involved, as a family, school, community. Do projects to assist in sustaining our Earth
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Karen Walstra
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
World Wetlands Day #RestoreWetlands
World Wetlands Day 2 February. Consider ways to create an awareness among your students.
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Karen Walstra
- Nov 23, 2020
- 3 min
Strategic Planning is Vital for Every School
Strategic Planning is vital in every school to plan for the future, to be sustainable and remain relevant.
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Karen Walstra
- Apr 1, 2020
- 3 min
Tips for “New Family Life" with COVID-19
"Lockdown" life with COVID-19 is very different, let's find the positive and thrive
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Karen Walstra
- Nov 10, 2019
- 2 min
Spaces to inspire learning - Learning Spaces
Create and design venues for learning and teaching differently. Create learning spaces to inspire learners.
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Karen Walstra
- Sep 24, 2019
- 10 min
TECHNOLOGY IN ALL AREAS OF SCHOOLING including in FET
TECHNOLOGY IN ALL AREAS OF SCHOOLING including in FET
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Karen Walstra
- Jul 24, 2017
- 3 min
Recreate and Evolve your Tech or D&T Classroom into a MakerSpace
Many schools have a Technology Workshop or Design and Technology Room, with a range of hand-tools and machine tools. This is often a...
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Karen Walstra
- Mar 3, 2014
- 12 min
Classroom Furniture & Arrangement for learning and e-learning spaces
Why change the classroom layout? Why change and rearrange the classroom furniture? Our classrooms are often so stayed and old fashioned,...
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Karen Walstra
- Jan 7, 2014
- 12 min
Colours for the Classroom
Colours for the Classroom, for example: using a variety of colours in a classroom reduces passivity and boredom.
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Karen Walstra
- Jan 6, 2014
- 8 min
Exercises for the brain, in the classroom - exploring neurobics
Neurobics encourages us to use, as many senses as possible to create strong and multiple associations, therefore when we remember the...
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Karen Walstra
- Jun 11, 2013
- 3 min
Girls and Boys Draw Differently
Have you watched the children on the playground or in the classroom? Girls and boys play differently. They fight differently. They...
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Karen Walstra
- Feb 7, 2013
- 3 min
Grade R Stimulating Indoor and Outdoor Playing Environments
Grade R Stimulating Indoor and Outdoor Playing Environments. Playing is an essential part of growing up
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Karen Walstra
- Feb 4, 2013
- 4 min
An Inviting Learning Space - The Classroom
Organizing and changing the classroom to suit what is being taught, in a fun and interesting manner, helps one feel comfortable and prepared
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Karen Walstra
- Jan 24, 2013
- 2 min
Making Learners Aware of Community Involvement
What values are we teaching are children? At school we often speak about behaving well, respecting each other and being kind to each...
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Karen Walstra
- Jan 22, 2013
- 4 min
Teaching about Garden Creatures
Many years ago, at my first teaching job, our Head of Department had planted a wonderful garden in a small space on our small school...
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Karen Walstra
- Jan 21, 2013
- 1 min
Creativity in the Classroom
How do you inspire your children to be creative when you teach? Our schools often restrict or hamper creativity among the children, we...
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