A teacher of teens, passionate about integrating character, creativity and technology in lessons 💜 Get a free gratitude journal here --> bit.ly/FreeGratitudeJournal
A teacher of teens, passionate about integrating character, creativity and technology in lessons 💜 Get a free gratitude journal here --> bit.ly/FreeGratitudeJournal
Christmas Traditions Around the World PowerPoint Quiz for big kids!
So, it’s coming up to Christmas time! It’s a great time of year, but your students can be a little over excited… You want to introduce some fun Christmas themed class bonding games, but you want them to actually learn something too!
Well you can save yourself weeks with this ready to go prep free quiz!
Each question will appear on screen with 4 options for your students to choose from. You can do this as a hands up approach just for fun as a whole class activity, or you could get students to write down answers independently or in groups using the printable option included.
The answer is revealed on the next slide (although you could easily move all the answers to the end if you prefer it that way!) and with each answer, there is an explanation to the tradition so students can learn some fun facts from different cultures around the world too.
Traditions from 25 different countries are included so students will get broad exposure to lots of cultures. Countries featured include:
UK
China
Brazil
Philippines
Lebanon
Poland
Japan
Estonia
Costa Rica
India
Ukraine
Finland
South Korea
Iceland
Russia
Italy
Mexico
Venezuela
Zimbabwe
Denmark
Norway
Austria
Colombia
Greece
South Africa
Enjoy this Christmas season with your students and have fun learning while you play!
This values unit on Resilience is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our teenage students have a growth mindset and can bounce back from adversity so that they can succeed and reach their goals!
Product includes:
• Resilience PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
• Resilience Printables - graphic organisers go perfectly with the PowerPoint if you want your students to record their thoughts as you discuss. There is also a fun bonus homework included!
• Discussion point cards to develop speaking and listening skills.
In order to ensure these important skills can be integrated into our busy timetables, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! It includes a structured PowerPoint that guides the class through discussions about resilience and effective skills on how to bounce back from challenges. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organisers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: they work as a helpful tool for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on resilience: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion – it is up to you!
So help build your students' resilience and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
End of Year Activities for Teens: no preparation needed, just print and go! This resource is a great way for students to wrap up, reflect on life, dream of the future and remain entertained while us teachers are using all our energy just trying to claw our way to the finish line!
If you want some fun and quality activities to use with your students at tutor time that they will enjoy and relate to, then this is the resource for you! It comes with attractive, enjoyable and creative memory book style activities that will last weeks running up to the much anticipated end of the school year!
This resource will encourage students to reflect on their year at school in fun and engaging ways and get them look ahead to the future too. The activities also come with quality teenage appropriate graphics which your students will love!
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• My Super Memories
• My Best Day
• The Blues
• Dear Future Me
• Top Things I’ve Learned
• What’s to Come
• My Dream Board
• What A Tune!
• What A Great Book!
• #ThrowbackThursday
• My Proudest Moments
• Autographs
• Acrostic Poetry
• End of School Plans
• My Legacy
• My Pearls of Wisdom
& 4 more pages!
These end of year activities can be used for a variety of age groups and abilities and require no preparation from you at all! Instructions are on each worksheet and students can be as thorough as they like depending on their ability.
Simply pick and choose some or all of the activities for your classes, or even set some for homework if you like!
These are not only fun to do but they make wonderful keepsakes for students to look back on when they are older - these could even be used with the same group of students each year to see how they have developed over time!
Enjoy!
This values unit on Leadership is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students are taught how to be good leaders so that they can learn to be assertive, forward thinking, and be positive role models to others.
Product includes:
• 17 slides of Leadership PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
• 10 pages of Leadership Printables - graphic organizers go perfectly with the PowerPoint if you want your students to record their thoughts as you discuss. There is also a fun bonus homework included! They are in a PowerPoint format so they can easily be converted to Google Slides for paperless activities if preferred.
• 24 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills.
• 6 Leadership Posters with a watercolour theme.
Your students will learn:
• how to define leadership
• how to analyse their own and others' leadership
• where they might need to demonstrate leadership
• signs of a good leader
• signs of a weak leader
• what can affect leadership
• self-awareness of their own leadership
• actionable steps to develop leadership skills
In order to ensure these important skills can be integrated into our busy timetables, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! It includes a structured PowerPoint that guides the class through discussions about leadership and effective skills on how to be a strong leader. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organizers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: they’re not a requirement, but they work as a helpful tool for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find 6 posters and a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on leadership: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion – it is up to you!
So help build your students' leadership skills and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Tutor Time Activities, Life skills and PSHE (Physical, Social, Health, Education) lessons.
These Character Education doodle colouring pages on "Resilience" are a wonderfully relaxing resource for your students, and colouring and displaying these quotes will encourage them to keep going through the hard times.
This complements the Character Education: Resilience teaching unit for teens perfectly!
I’m a big advocate for colouring therapy for students and adults, and I already have quite an extensive collection of different quote colouring pages available! They are wonderfully relaxing and especially effective for growth mindset as all quotes are inspirational and positive!
Not only are these resilience colouring pages ideal for decorating the classroom, but you’ll be amazed at the wonders it can do just by giving students a few minutes to wind down and relax by colouring.
In this unique set, you will get 5 different quotes on resilience. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also some white space available for them to add their own doodles too!
So take a few minutes during a tutor time, morning meeting, indoor break, or give to early finishers, and let your students wind down and colour while reflecting on positive quotes.
Help your students build resilience and be all you know they can be!
This Character Education on values super bundle is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students are building strong character and values in order to help them succeed in school and for the rest of their lives - talk about having an impact!?
This 20% off bundle includes all 10 character units:
• self-esteem
• resilience
• self-respect
• empathy
• courage
• honesty
• compassion
• respect
• tolerance
• leadership
Sadly, teaching teens about character and values is often put to the bottom of the pile, yet did you know that it is the foundation for all success? If you want your students to do well in your class, I believe you need to be teaching them positive ways to think and act, now while they are young! It will make them more confident and resilient and ensure they have the self-belief that they can succeed.
Product includes:
• 160+ slides of PowerPoints - all are fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver them. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
• 90+ pages of Printables to go with each unit - graphic organisers go perfectly with the PowerPoints if you want your students to record their thoughts as you discuss. There are also fun bonus homeworks included for each unit! They are in a PowerPoint format so they can easily be converted to Google Slides for paperless activities if preferred.
• Over 240 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills in class.
Your students will learn the following in each characteristic area:
• how to define the character trait
• how to analyse their own and others’ character
• where they might need to demonstrate said characteristic
• signs of positive character trait
• signs of negative character trait
• what can affect change in character
• self-awareness of their own character
• actionable steps to build character
*This set includes 10 characteristics in a super saver bundle: save 20%*
In order to ensure these important skills can be integrated into our busy timetables, these resources have been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! Each unit includes a structured PowerPoint that guides the class through discussions about each of the 5 characteristics and effective skills on how to strengthen them. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required! On top of this, the PowerPoint text is editable so you can modify the content to suit your students’ needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organisers which are supplementary to the PowerPoints: they work as helpful tools for students to record their thoughts in an aesthetically pleasing way that can then be used for bulletin board displays etc. You will also find a set of discussion task cards in each unit to spark conversation and thoughts on each characteristic: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion – it is up to you!
So help build your students’ character / values and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Health Class, Life skills and PSHE (Physical, Social, Health, Education) lessons.
Teaching Character Education? Showing gratitude has been proven to increase long-term well-being, improve health, relationships, emotions and help us bounce back from stressful experiences.
With the significant increase in stress and anxiety among our young people, it is more important than ever that as teachers, we are catering to our students’ emotional needs in the classroom.
This Gratitude Journal is the ideal way to help our students focus on the good aspects of their life and to appreciate their blessings – every one of us has something to be thankful for and this journal will be sure to highlight it! The journal contains 52 prompts, one for each week of the year. Each prompt is unique and encourages reflection on a wide range of life experiences, allowing for much more creativity and diversity in thinking and responses.
It is not labelled by month or date so can be started at any time in the year – new starts don’t have to only begin on January 1st, and gratitude isn't just for Thanksgiving!
You can let students take them home to complete as a private activity, or it can be done in school maybe at the start of the week as a Monday Morning Meeting.
You will receive both a PRINTABLE and DIGITAL version to suit your needs! The digital one is ideal for opening up on Google Slides as it can be completed and looked at on any device, whenever and wherever!
P.S. It’s also great for teachers too: we can all take time to have an attitude of gratitude!
Christmas themed activities for older students at differentiated levels, ideal for art integration and developing problem solving skills!
We all know Christmas is an exciting time of year, but towards the end it can be really challenging to keep our students (and ourselves!?) motivated and engaged.
This resource will save your sanity in the last few days before the end of term at Christmas break!
You and your students will get:
• differentiated levels of challenge
• independent learning opportunities
• to practice fine motor skills
• opportunities for art integration
• to develop problem solving skills
• hand made gifts to take home
• fun and engaging activities for the end of the year - a more educational alternative to just sitting in front of yet another DVD!
There are a range of Christmas decorations included which are differentiated to suit a variety of abilities (3 of them are particularly challenging and are ideal for developing problem solving skills!)
There are both blank and already decorated templates to suit your students’ needs. All clip art is original, designed by me and can’t be found elsewhere! :)
For each decoration, there are visual instructions that you can choose to show your students (or not for some extra problem solving challenges!)
I hope your students enjoy making these fun paper craft ornaments this Christmas!
Get access to 3 vibrant and unique editable Google Forms ready for back to school! Get to know your students on a deeper level, have fun with "this or that" quick fire questions and ask your students' parents some insightful questions too!
You will also be able to see student responses live on screen and use this information to really get to know your students. Also very handy if you really don't want to be dealing with extra piles of paper this year!
New to Google forms? Don't worry, I have also included an exclusive video to guide you through how to use these forms in your own classroom :)
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Here’s a little background story as to why I created these Get to Know You Google forms: I recently took over a new class and I had a “hand over” meeting with their former teacher to tell me more about them. She knew most of them well academically and behaviourally, however she floundered when asked about their personal interests and admitted she couldn’t tell me anything about some of them…!?
I wanted to make sure I knew something about every one of my kids, hence these Google forms were born! You’re bound to learn something about each student if you actually make an effort to ask them (and the quiet ones might prefer to type it up rather than talk about it) and you can then use that information to help build relationships over time.
This set contains 3 different forms for you. There are 2 forms for students:
• one goes deep on on their interests, fears and hobbies
• the other is a more laid back and fun school related “this or that” game
• the third form is for the parents / guardians so you can start to build a relationship with them too by getting their perspective on their child, learn what they want from you and how they would like to be contacted etc.
The Google Forms are attractive and vibrant and can be done in class or completed as homework on any device that is connected to the internet. I wish you a long and happy relationship with your new class this year!
Character Education Tutor Time / Morning Meeting Paperless Digital Whiteboard PowerPoint on SELF-RESPECT, ideal for social and emotional learning.
This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion.
I’m so glad you are looking to teach Character Education! Character development and socio-emotional skills are the critical foundation needed for our students to succeed in school and in life. This morning meeting digital whiteboard pack is a powerful and easy way to help strengthen your core curriculum for a responsive classroom. It ensures your students get the opportunity to learn how to develop self respect by repetition and deep discussion. They are ideal to use for home room, advisory periods or as bell ringers for the start of your lesson!
In order to ensure Character Education can be integrated into your busy timetable, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! This resource is a structured PowerPoint suitable for any whiteboard, with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking discussion prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Self-Respect Printable Journal to go with it if you also want your students to practice their writing and keep a record of their reflections.
Product includes:
• 20 slides of Self-Respect Morning Meeting PowerPoint
• 60 thought provoking discussion prompts that go far beyond “what do you think this quote means” and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world.
• 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Self-Respect. That’s enough for every working day of the month, allowing you to do different Character themed months all year long if you get the whole set of 10 (coming soon).
So help build your students’ self-respect in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
Character Education Tutor Time / Morning Meeting Paperless Digital Whiteboard PowerPoint on RESPECT, ideal for social and emotional learning.
This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion.
I’m so glad you are looking to teach Character Education! Character development and socio-emotional skills are the critical foundation needed for our students to succeed in school and in life. This morning meeting digital whiteboard pack is a powerful and easy way to help strengthen your core curriculum for a responsive classroom. It ensures your students get the opportunity to learn the importance of respect by repetition and deep discussion. They are ideal to use for home room, advisory periods or as bell ringers for the start of your lesson!
In order to ensure Character Education can be integrated into your busy timetable, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! This resource is a structured PowerPoint suitable for any whiteboard, with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking discussion prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Respect Printable Journal to go with it if you also want your students to practice their writing and keep a record of their reflections.
Product includes:
• 20 slides of Respect Morning Meeting PowerPoint
• 60 thought provoking discussion prompts that go far beyond “what do you think this quote means” and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world.
• 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Respect. That’s enough for every working day of the month, allowing you to do different Character themed months all year long if you get the whole set of 10 (coming soon).
So help build your students’ respect in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
Character Education Tutor Time / Morning Meeting Paperless Digital Whiteboard PowerPoint on COMPASSION.
This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion.
I’m so glad you are looking to teach Character Education! Character development and socio-emotional skills are the critical foundation needed for our students to succeed in school and in life. This morning meeting digital whiteboard pack is a powerful and easy way to help strengthen your core curriculum for a responsive classroom. It ensures your students get the opportunity to learn how to develop compassion for others by repetition and deep discussion.
In order to ensure Character Education can be integrated into your busy timetable, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! This resource is a structured PowerPoint suitable for any whiteboard, with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking discussion prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Compassion Printable Journal to go with it if you also want your students to practice their writing and keep a record of their reflections.
Product includes:
• 20 slides of Compassion Morning Meeting PowerPoint
• 60 thought provoking discussion prompts that go far beyond “what do you think this quote means” and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world.
• 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Compassion. That’s enough for every working day of the month, allowing you to do different Character themed months all year long if you get the whole set of 10 (coming soon).
So help build your students’ compassion in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
Character Education Tutor Time / Morning Meeting Paperless Digital Whiteboard PowerPoint on SELF-CONFIDENCE / SELF-ESTEEM.
This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion.
I’m so glad you are looking to teach Character Education! Character development and socio-emotional skills are the critical foundation needed for our students to succeed in school and in life. This morning meeting digital whiteboard pack is a powerful and easy way to help strengthen your core curriculum for a responsive classroom. It ensures your students get the opportunity to learn how to build their self-esteem and confidence by repetition and deep discussion.
In order to ensure Character Education can be integrated into your busy timetable, this resource has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! This resource is a structured PowerPoint suitable for any whiteboard, with 20 powerful quotes and 60 thought provoking discussion prompts. No prior knowledge or experience from you is required to teach it. If you choose, you can also download the Self-Esteem Printable Journal to go with it if you also want your students to practice their writing and keep a record of their reflections.
Product includes:
• 20 slides of Self-Confidence Morning Meeting PowerPoint
• 60 thought provoking discussion prompts that go far beyond “what do you think this quote means” and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world.
• 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem. That’s enough for every working day of the month, allowing you to do different Character themed months all year long if you get the whole set of 10 (coming soon).
So help build your students’ self-confidence in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
Check your students’ understanding with social media exit tickets and engage your students with media they are already so familiar with!
These have a realistic mobile phone style and come with 8 different social media platforms!
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Each exit ticket is half a page and comes with 2 on a page to save on printing costs for your class. (Also, both UK and US versions are included). These exit tickets are great for the following:
• Summarizing their learning whilst adding the hashtag of key words #HowCool!
• Encouraging students to summarize the lesson whilst identifying areas they specifically ‘liked’ using the thumbs up!
• Visualizing their understanding by drawing an image to summarize their learning.
• Texting on their smartphone about anything they learned this lesson!
• Telling a “story” of their learning in the lesson. They get to use both visual and written feedback.
• Allowing creativity in feedback as students can write quotes, draw images and use text to summarize their learning.
• Offering peer feedback. Students can write their partner a question to test learning and their peer can respond.
• Creating freeze frames of something which reflects their learning!
These are simple and easy to use in your lessons allowing you to quickly see what students have learned in a fun and convenient way - plus, these work with ANY subject!
Your students will definitely think you are the most awesome teacher ever when you pull these out in your lesson, believe me! Give them a shot now and let me know the response you get!
Classrooom Decor Pennants: Growth Mindset, Motivating and Inspiring Colouring Pages about education and learning.
I’m a big advocate for colouring therapy for students and adults, and I already have quite an extensive collection of different quote colouring pages available in my store! They are wonderfully relaxing and especially effective for growth mindset as all quotes are inspirational and positive!
In this unique set, you will get a selection of doodle colouring pennants to help decorate your classroom with some positive quotes about education to keep your students inspired all year long! There are 10 different colouring pennants to choose from. Students can just shade in using whatever colours make them happy, but there is also some white space available for students to add their own doodles too!
So take a few minutes at the start of the year to get students in the right frame of mind by colouring in positive quotes about education, then tie string through the pennants and decorate your classroom!
Need some fresh, new end of year awards certificates to celebrate the individuality and success of your young and teenage students? Get hold of these End Of Year Certificate Awards for Teens: Emoji Style!
These certificates are funky and edgy with some cool teen clip art images with a fun emoji theme that your students will really relate to and think you're the coolest ever! (Even though we know you already are!)
These come in both colour and black line with 30 different certificates to choose from! They can be used over again for almost any year group and any subject, and have a wide range of awards so every student can be celebrated for their uniqueness!
I hope your students enjoy these fun and edgy certificates to wrap up the end of the year using the oh-so-popular EMOJI theme! Be sure to check out the End Of Year Activities For Teens too, to give your students something fun to do in the final few weeks of school.
Explore more of growth mindset mentality with these motivational, inspirational and relaxing zen doodle colouring pages with quotes by Martin Luther King Jr - great for MLK / Black History Month.
There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from in this set, and all these inspiring quotes are by Martin Luther King Jr himself: great for teaching Growth Mindset on MLK day or during Black History Month!
Most teachers have used these to create a calming and inspirational atmosphere in their rooms by displaying the finished sheets on the wall during the tests, which students love.
So take some time out of a hectic day to give your students the opportunity to just focus, motivate and enjoy themselves today – they deserve it (and so do you!)
Encourage your students to reflect peacefully on Remembrance Day with these quote colouring pages for big kids.
There are 5 different quotes to choose from. Students can just colour in using whatever shades make them happy, but there is also some white space available for them to add their own doodles too!
So teach your students about the significance of Remembrance Day (see teaching resource) and also give them the opportunity to sit in silence and reflect on those who lost their lives so that we could live.
Explore more of growth mindset mentality with these motivational, inspirational and relaxing zen doodle colouring pages with quotes by Shakespeare!
There are 6 (1 free bonus page included!) different colouring pages to choose from in this set, and all these inspiring quotes are by Shakespeare himself: great for teaching Shakespeare units or for celebrating his birthday on April 23rd!
Most teachers have used these to create a calming and inspirational atmosphere in their rooms by displaying the finished sheets on the wall during the tests, which students love.
So take some time out of a hectic day to give your students the opportunity to just focus, motivate and enjoy themselves today – they deserve it (and so do you!)
Need some end of year awards certificates to celebrate the individuality and success of your young and teenage students? They will love these End Of Year Certificate Awards in a cool #HashtagStyle!
These certificates are funky and edgy with some cool teen clip art images and #hashtag themed titles that your students will really relate to and think you're the coolest ever! (Even though we know you already are!)
These come in black line to save on printing costs, but feel free to print them on coloured card for even more impact!
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