Give Me 5
This is a simple tool that is verbal & nonverbal. It works as a call and response tool for the classroom. You can use this tool as a quick way to get students’ attention.
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Waiting for the Teacher
With this tool students who want help from the teacher can clip their name on the hand in the front of the classroom. This way the teacher can know what students want their help and in what order to help them.
Calming Tools Kit
The calming corner is a box in the classroom with different calming tools for students like visual calming tools as well as different fidgets, ideas for calming, and tools for visual expression. This is available for students to use when they feel frustrated, angry or upset as a safe way to help them calm down.
The Fridge
This tool is essentially a student-lead bulletin board. Where students post personal work or art that they wish to share with their peers and the teacher on, “The Fridge.”
Red-Yellow-Green (Moods)
This is a tool that allows students to better communicate how they’re feeling throughout the day. This helps a teacher get a better understanding of when and how to approach students based on their feelings that day.
Timers-group, individual or work reference to time
For the tool timer, I would use it for a wide variety of learning whether it’s assignments, group work, or free time. It is useful because students can see and understand how to be efficient with what they are doing.
Color Dots
Placing different colored dots on a blank note card can be used to group students. When you are needing to group you will hand out a note card with a different colored dot and the students will have to find their peer(s) with he same colored dot on the note card. This help prevent students being left out when students are grouping up.
Greeting friends
For this tool the student will sit in a circle.They will turn to the person next to them and mention one thing they did the previous day then say “good morning”. After the students have said one thing they did the previous day and a good morning they will turn to the other student and a different question the teacher provided, they will also say good morning when they are done. After the students have shared with the people next to them they can raise their hand and share something they said to a partner.
Choosing your seat
This tool is helpful because the students are able to move around weekly and sit with someone new each week. The student can see what works best for them.
The students each week gather their materials and clean up their desk and throw away any garbage that could’ve been left behind. The teacher can pull out a stick or choose the student that is the quietest to pick their spot first. Then the following students and so on.
Five Bells
This tool involves the teacher ringing a bell five times in a row, which signals to students that they should stop what they are doing, look at the teacher, and listen. This tool is helpful because it is a way to get attention without being too loud, and it also gives students time to finish a thought or a sentence before directing their focus to the teacher.
