Welcome to A Plus Learning!
A Plus Learning prides itself on providing teachers and counsellors with quality educational materials and resources that are designed to enhance the engagement and performance of students allowing them to achieve excellent results. Our materials and resources can also be used by teachers and counsellors to enhance their professional development.
Welcome to A Plus Learning!
A Plus Learning prides itself on providing teachers and counsellors with quality educational materials and resources that are designed to enhance the engagement and performance of students allowing them to achieve excellent results. Our materials and resources can also be used by teachers and counsellors to enhance their professional development.
These fun teacher and staff awards are a great way to recognise, affirm and acknowledge their talents, skills, and capabilities. These could be given at the middle or end of the school year. It could also be given during faculty development and departmental meetings. It comes in black & white as well. Blank templates are also provided if you want to add more awards.
The file is in powerpoint format. Use "TEXT BOX" to insert the award and the awardee. No school year or date is added since this could be used anytime during the school year. If you want more awards, please send me an email at kitcelcorner@gmail.com.
Teacher and Staff awards include:
1.Early Riser
2.Cabin Steward
3.Life Saver
4.Captain of the Ship
5.Boatswain
6.Lighthouse
7.School Supply Addict
8.Night Owl
9.Task Card King/Queen
10.Steve Jobs
11.Iron Chef
12.PD expert
13.Family Fun-Tastic
14.Energizer Bunny
15.The Survivor
16.Happy Hoarder
17.Heart of Gold
18.Hallway Ninja
19.Hot Stuff
20.Grace under pressure
21.Keeper of Keys
22.Superb Staff
23.Shakespeare award
24.Ralph Waldo Emerson
25.Brilliant Mind
26.Da Vinci’s Right hand
27.Nat Geo Award
28.Testing Diva
29.Intervention guru
30.Glee award
31.Discipline Master
32.Perfect Attendance
33.Dismissal Pro
34.Hallway Boss
35.True Believer
36.Carpool Boss
37.Scheduling Wizard
38.Sight Word Whiz
39.Bulletin Board Master
40.Green thumb
41.Sweet Tooth
42.Fashionista award
43.Terrific Team player
44.Amaze-balls attitude
45.Most patient
46.Kid Whisperer
47.STEM Pro
48.Legacy Builder
49.Workshop magician
50.Excellent Teamwork
51.Animal Whisperer
52.School Comedian
53.Pearly Whites
54.OC organizer
55.Peacekeeper
56.Google classroom expert
57.Fundraiser Hero
58.Sports Phenom
59.Above & Beyond
60.Cool, Calm, Collected
61.Anchor Chart Master
62.King/ Queen of Committees
63.School Spirit Idol
64.Zealous Planner
65.Maintenance Pro
66.Rockstar King/Queen
67.Records Master
68.Craft Master
69.Games Master
70.Helping Hand
71.Carpe Diem
72.Go Getter
73.Jack of all trades
74.Miracle worker
75.Most Dependable
76.Listening Ear
77.Empathy Award
78.Ps & Qs award
79.Enthusiastic award
80.Thomas Edison Award
Our tweens and teens go through a lot of changes and these changes often make them feel anxious, stressed, worried, frustrated, angry, etc...
This set of calming strategies will help your students to keep their focus and concentration, develop and enhance good coping skills as well as self-regulate. It could help them to stay calm and assist them in managing the situation and their emotions.
It includes:
Brief discussion of pre-adolescence and adolescence
Reasons why students are not calm
Signs when students are not calm
What we want our students to know
Calming strategies include:
1. Hiking
2. Surfing
3. Swimming
4. Knitting
5. Riding a bike
6. Fishing
7. Pottery
8. Wood-work
9. Cross-stitching
10. Make a scrapbook
11. Tinkering with technology
12. Photography
13. Make a Video
14. Snorkeling
15. Visit a museum
16. Visit a library
17. Sewing
18. Play video games
19. Do yoga
20. Visit a zoo
21. Scuba diving
22. Go on a road trip
23. Visit an amusement park
24. Identify your feelings
25. Do pilates
Family is one of the most important relationships in life. Learning and understanding the role of each family member, their contribution and the way they communicate are essential in keeping family relationships happy, healthy and harmonious.
This mini-lesson includes activities on appreciating family members, recognising the importance of family traditions,learning and understanding the importance of responsibilities towards family members, learning to address family issues and recognising the importance of effective communication. Lecture on family conflicts and how to improve communication to family members are also included. Processing questions are included to facilitate better learning experiences
This mini-lesson consists of different activities for students to reflect on about rumours.
This module will help students think about things they have heard and how talking about others can harm other people’s reputation.
Processing questions are included in each activity to facilitate learning experiences.
Our tweens and teens go through a lot of changes and these changes often make them feel anxious, stressed, worried, frustrated, angry, etc...
This set of calming strategies will help your students to keep their focus and concentration, develop and enhance good coping skills as well as self-regulate. It could help them to stay calm and assist them in managing the situation and their emotions.
It includes:
Brief discussion of pre-adolescence and adolescence
Reasons why students are not calm
Signs when students are not calm
What we want our students to know
Calming strategies include:
1. Talk it out
2. Draw
3. Paint
4. Write
5. Read
6. Exercise
7. Think of Positives
8. Listen to Music
9. Breathe
10. Walk
11. Meditate
12. Cook
13. Bake
14. Dance
15. Play sports
16.Play musical instruments
17. Hang out with friends
18. Watch your favourite television shows
19. Clean your room
20. Go out and enjoy the outdoors
21. Drink water
22. Count 1, 2, 3
23. Go to the beach
24. Gardening
25. Stargazing
This product contains 100 plus conversation starters that teachers and counselors can use.
It is divided into 5 categories:
a. Family
b. Self
c. School
d. Friends
e. Anything under the sun
It also comes with blank templates that you can use to write your own questions for each category.
This mini-lesson is about teaching your students to decide better. A strategy/ technique based on research will be discussed in this mini lesson to guide your students in making better decisions. It is called: FIG TESPN.
FIG stands for:
F-Feelings
I-Identify the problem
G- What do you want to achieve to address your problem.
TESPN stands for:
T-Think of many possible solutions
E- Envision outcomes based on the solutions to the problem/s
S -Select the best among all the solutions
P- Plan the procedure, anticipate pitfalls, & practice steps.
N- Notice what happened and remember it for next time.
This workbook or module consists of activities to promote positive self esteem and positive reinforcement and image to your students. Activities comes up with processing questions to facilitate learning.
Developing and enhancing leadership skills is one of the most vital life skills that our students need to learn. Our students need to be effective and efficient not just in the classroom most especially when they are out in the big world.
This training focuses on:
Definition of Organisation
Organisation Exercises
This training includes inputs, activity sheets, and processing questions to facilitate better learning experiences.
Developing and enhancing leadership skills is one of the most vital life skills that our students need to learn. Our students need to be effective and efficient not just in the classroom most especially when they are out in the big world.
This training focuses on:
Definition of Goals
Types of Goals
SMART approach
80/20 Principle on goal setting
Routes to accomplishing goals
This training includes inputs, activity sheets, and processing questions to facilitate better learning experiences.
These 50 student reward coupons will help your students become more effective and efficient students in the classroom. It will promote good interpersonal relationships to others, build self-confidence, and instill good habits.
*Use these rewards to students who are “caught in the act” of doing good.
*Use these rewards with difficult students to improve on their behavior.
*Allow them to choose their student rewards.
*Use them to reinforce good behavior.
Reward Coupons:
1. My Life, My tunes- Listen to music while working
2. I like my new seat- Pick your new seat
3.Woo-Hoo- Free Assignment Day
4. Project Buddy - Pick your project partner/s
5.DJ for a Day- Pick songs for the class to listen to
6. Yum, yum Gum- Chew Gum in Class
7.President for A Day
8.5 Bonus Points - For Project
9. Teacher's Right Hand- Teacher's Assistant for the Day/ Week
10. Very Important Person- Sit on Teacher's Table
11. Apps Time- Play game using gadgets during break time
12. Sleep In- Skip Bell Work
13.Tech Time- Extra 5 minutes on the computer
14. Mad Hatter- Wear your cap or hat to school
15. I love RECESS- Extra 5 minutes for Recess
16. Free Time is Fun- Extra 5 minutes of Free Time
17.Positive Note for Home- Teacher writes a positive note to your parents about student and performance
18. Positive Call for Home- Teacher calls parents to give positive feedback
19. Too Cool for School- Wear shades/sun glasses to school
20.Almost on Time- Get Away Late Pass and more....
This conflict resolution lesson teaches what conflict is about, the dynamics of conflict and conflict resolution strategies to help your students improve their conflict resolution skills. This lesson will also help you in managing your class better and will help promote and maintain good interpersonal relationships in class.
This lesson include:
Definition of Conflict
Conflict Styles:
1. Accommodating
2. Competing
3. Avoiding
4. Compromising
5. Collaborating
Conflict Hooks:
1. Competence
2. Inclusion
3. Autonomy
4.Status
5.Reliability
6. Integrity
Conflict Resolution Activities
Conflict Resolution Strategies
Processing questions are included in each conflict resolution activities
This handbook was created to help teachers conduct effective student led conferences. It includes:
Objectives for student led conferences
Tips on organizing student led conferences
Checklists for students and teachers
Templates for schedules
Sample letter to parents
Sample scripts to teach your students
Sample forms
Sample portfolio content
Parent assignments/ homework
This mini- lesson plan includes:
Icebreaker
Discussion on career
Provides students on what career planning is
Comes with a short interest survey
A small career project they can work on
Discussion on career types
Tips on career decision-making.
This Self-Esteem Project is about discovering oneself, recognising and affirming one's talents, skills, and capabilities. It is also being aware of the things that we do that affects our self-esteem.
This module includes:
* Definition of self-esteem
* Signs of positive and negative self-esteem
* Self-esteem concepts
* Quick inputs
* Tips for a healthy self-esteem
* Tips for parents to help raise the self-esteem of their kids
* Processing questions are included in each activity to facilitate better learning experiences
This team building set comes with general objectives. Each activity comes with instructions you can modify. It also comes with processing questions to facilitate learning from the activities that you can discuss with your students.
3 Icebreakers
6 Team building Activities (Included are materials needed, instructions and processing questions to facilitate learning from the activities)
This could help your students learn more about cooperating with each other. Learning their strengths and weaknesses as a team or group and individually to reach a common goal, appreciating each other's contribution and having fun.
Teaching emotional intelligence could help students handle situations effectively, be able to identify, communicate their feelings to other people and could help them read situations and relationships. It could also help them regulate their emotions and help them respond appropriately to others.
This Emotional Intelligence resource focuses on 4 areas:
1. Intrapersonal
2. Interpersonal
3. Stress Management
4. General Mood
This emotional intelligence resource includes:
a. Definition of Emotional intelligence
b. Signs of high emotional intelligence
c. Signs of low emotional intelligence
d. Activities on the 4 focused areas
e. Processing questions to facilitate better learning experiences
Classroom jobs are a great way to teach your students leadership, accountability, and responsibility, and service
These classroom jobs for high school students include 9 jobs
Administrative Manager
Sanitation Comissioner
Environmental Manager
Head Librarian
Supply Director
IT Manager
Distribution Manager
Liaison Manager
Student Well-Being Manager
It includes:
Job description and skills needed
Job IDs
Performance Rating
Application Form
Inventory Sheets for Head Librarian and Supply Director
Editable Certificate of Recognition
Editable Certificate of Appreciation
Template for List of Applicants for each job
Blank Templates available for:
Job description and skills needed if you want to add more
Performance rating if you want to create your own rating
Job IDs if you want to create more jobs
Files are in Powerpoint, JPEG format, A4 size
Vices: To Try or Not To Try: This mini-lesson focuses on how to help your students avoid risky behaviours. It will teach your students to make healthy choices. Strategies are also provided to help your students resist unhealthy choices. Worksheets are provided to help them analyse, think and act properly when confronted with risky situations.
Cyber Bullying:Cyber bullying is a form of bullying and have been a major concern among our kids. This mini-lesson could help your kids be more aware of what cyber bullying is and what to do about it. You could also use this for bullying awareness week or month.
This mini-lesson include:
Definition of cyber bullying
Cyber bullying technology
Why do kids bully?
Profile of cyber bullies, victims of cyber bullies and bystanders
Cyber bullying categories
Cyber bullying types
Ways to prevent and stop cyber bullying
Decision-Making: Improving Decision-making Skills:
This mini-lesson is about teaching your students to decide better. A strategy/ technique based on research will be discussed in this mini lesson to guide your students in making better decisions. It is called: FIG TESPN.
FIG stands for:
F-Feelings
I-Identify the problem
G- What do you want to achieve to address your problem.
TESPN stands for:
T-Think of many possible solutions
E- Envision outcomes based on the solutions to the problem/s
S -Select the best among all the solutions
P- Plan the procedure, anticipate pitfalls, & practice steps.
N- Notice what happened and remember it for next time.
Initial Interview Guide: This guide can be used by teachers and counsellors to get acquainted with their students. They can easily establish rapport with these short interview guide and they can also take down notes about their observations and impressions of the student.
Relationship 101: This mini-lesson comes in handy to teach to your students on the first day of school. It will help set the tone of the things you expect from them as a class and remind them of how to treat their teachers and classmates throughout the school year.
The Habits of Happy and Healthy Tweens and Teens: Teaching good habits to our tweens and teens are essential. We want them to practice these habits to make them successful people in the future.
These habits can be taught in class and they can also be printed and posted in the classroom or guidance office. You can use them as part of your orientation at the start of the school year.