A teacher of teens, passionate about integrating character, creativity and technology in lessons š Get a free gratitude journal here --> bit.ly/FreeGratitudeJournal
A teacher of teens, passionate about integrating character, creativity and technology in lessons š Get a free gratitude journal here --> bit.ly/FreeGratitudeJournal
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:
ā¢ 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!
ā¢ 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.
ā¢ 24 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills.
ā¢ 6 Leadership Posters with a watercolour theme.
Your students will learn:
ā¢ how to define leadership
ā¢ how to analyse their own and others' leadership
ā¢ where they might need to demonstrate leadership
ā¢ signs of a good leader
ā¢ signs of a weak leader
ā¢ what can affect leadership
ā¢ self-awareness of their own leadership
ā¢ 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 studentsā needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organizers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: theyāre 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 ā 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!
Iām 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 youāll 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 values unit on self-respect is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students have a healthy level of self-respect and assertiveness to maintain high standards in their lives. Sadly, this characteristic is become more and more rare - we need to teach our students the right way, now while they are young!
Product includes:
ā¢ 18 slides of self-respect PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
ā¢ 9 pages of self-respect 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.
ā¢ 24 unique discussion cards to develop speaking and listening skills.
Your students will learn:
ā¢ how to define self-respect
ā¢ how to analyse their own and others' self-respect
ā¢ where they might need to demonstrate self-respect
ā¢ signs of high self-respect
ā¢ signs of low self-respect
ā¢ what can affect self-respect
ā¢ self-awareness of their own self-respect
ā¢ actionable steps to build self-respect
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 self-respect and effective skills on how to be assertive and raise their standards. 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 studentsā needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organizers 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 self-respect: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion ā it is up to you!
So help build your students' self-respect 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.
This values unit on Empathy is a crucial element for strengthening the core curriculum and ensuring our students have empathy towards others which helps reduce bullying, racism, prejudice and can improve relationships.
Product includes:
ā¢ Empathy PowerPoint - fully structured so no prior experience is required to deliver it. The text is also editable for you to modify as needed!
ā¢ Empathy Printables - graphic organizsers 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!
ā¢ 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 empathy and effective skills on understanding othersā feelings. 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 studentsā 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 empathy: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion ā it is up to you!
So help build your students' empathy 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.
Explore more of growth mindset mentality with these motivational, inspirational and relaxing zen doodle colouring pages: great for the exam season too!
Most teachers are very concerned about their students during the testing period, and have found immediate positive results on student well-being with my motivational colouring pages.
Most teachers have discovered that by giving students some time before a test to mentally relax with these colouring pages, it has had an immediately positive effect on student focus and motivation - try them for yourself now!
There are 5 different colouring pages to choose from in this set, and the fact that these contain motivational quotes too, well that gives most students an immediate and welcomed confidence boost before the test!
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.
Now take a few minutes away from the testing period and give your students the opportunity to just focus, motivate and enjoy themselves today ā they deserve it!
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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Hereās 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 āhand overā 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 couldnāt tell me anything about some of themā¦!?
I wanted to make sure I knew something about every one of my kids, hence these Google forms were born! Youāre 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:
ā¢ one goes deep on on their interests, fears and hobbies
ā¢ the other is a more laid back and fun school related āthis or thatā game
ā¢ 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!
Make it your mission this year to take your life back with this well-being journal. Use for yourself or issue to your students to help them keep a journal of their life so they can reflect as well as set targets and track their progress to build positive habits.
Weāre all so busy and we give so much to other people that self-care often goes on the back burner. Itās crucial we take care of our well-being as it affects the way we feel and think, the way we cope with lifeās challenges and how we can make the most of our potential.ā
If we neglect to make an effort to take care of our well-being we can find ourselves stressed, jaded, unfulfilled or feeling trapped.
After getting overwhelmed with life as a teacher, I started to set and track my progress in habits I wanted to create, as well as journaling. It has been essential in helping me form good habits and take care of my emotional state too. By recording my journey, I have been able to spot patterns in my mood over the course of a year and Iām now able to plan ahead, manage my life effectively and look after my well-being. With this journal, you and your students can have that same control and emotional freedom!
Journal includes:
70 pages
Every page is hand rendered in zentangle style for mindful colouring
Monthly journal pages for brief journaling
Weekly journal pages for brief journaling
Daily journal pages, both with prompts and plain for more detailed journaling
Prompts encourage you to focus on achievement, self-care and future thoughts
Daily tracker with 4 point system to monitor and review well-being each day
Monthly gratitude jar keepsake to record daily joys
12 different zentangle themes for each month to add variety
4 different types of trackers: mood, sleep, exercise and one for your own habitsā
Benefits:
Itās so easy to get caught up in day to day life that your well-being falls by the wayside but having somewhere to record your thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions puts these in the forefront of your mind ensuring you focus on them.
Journaling has been proven to reduce physical disease symptoms and anxiety, enhance self-esteem and increase self-awareness.
It can improve your self love and help you become really in tune with your own thoughts and emotions.
Writing engages both the left and right side of the brain, enhancing problem solving capabilities.
When you journal, you can go back and identify patterns to help you in the future as well as identify areas of personal growth to help you celebrate your successes.
Overall, promotes well-being by allowing you to monitor your mental, physical and emotional wellness.
Christmas Traditions Around the World PowerPoint Quiz for big kids!
So, itās coming up to Christmas time! Itās a great time of year, but your students can be a little over excitedā¦ 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!
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.
Iām 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:
ā¢ 20 slides of Self-Confidence Morning Meeting PowerPoint
ā¢ 60 thought provoking discussion prompts that go far beyond āwhat do you think this quote meansā and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world.
ā¢ 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem. Thatās 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 studentsā 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.
Character Education Morning Meeting / Tutor Time Paperless Digital Whiteboard PowerPoint on RESILIENCE.
This is 1 of a 10 part series that includes: resilience, courage, self-confidence, self-respect, tolerance, leadership, respect, empathy, honesty and compassion.
Iām 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 be resilient and never give up 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 Resilience Printable Journal to go with it if you also want your students to practise their writing and keep a record of their reflections.
Product includes:
ā¢ 20 slides of Resilience Morning Meeting PowerPoint
ā¢ 60 thought provoking discussion prompts that go far beyond āwhat do you think this quote meansā and instead encourage deep personal reflection on their own lives and the world.
ā¢ 20 powerfully themed quotes based solely on Resilience. Thatās 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 studentsā resilience in 5 minutes every day, and encourage them to be all that you know they can be!
Great for Character Education, Tutor Time, Form Time, Social Skills, Life skills and PSHCE (Physical, Social, Health, Citizenship Education) lessons.
Are you concerned about the effects of social media on the emotional health of your students and looking to develop a responsive classroom by incorporating Social Emotional Learning?
It is impossible for our young people to completely avoid social media. Itās a world that most of us teachers or parents didnāt grow up with in our own youth, so itās challenging for adults to guide students appropriately in this arena.
As we know, social media has a significant effect on mental health so itās important for students to be aware of this and develop healthy ways to use this platform, as itās not going away any time soon.
This resource will help you guide your students the right way. It has been designed to make it as easy to deliver as possible! It includes a structured PowerPoint that guides your class through discussions about social media and the effects it can have on mental health and how to have a positive experience online. 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 studentsā needs, should you wish.
Also included are bonus graphic organizers which are supplementary to the PowerPoint: theyāre 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 a set of discussion task cards to spark conversation and thoughts on social media: these can be printed off for each group of students, or they can be used in whole class discussion, small group, or even for 1:1 counselling.
Product includes:
ā¢ 31 slide PowerPoint
ā¢ 3 printables of graphic organizers
ā¢ 4 scenarios to analyze
ā¢ 24 discussion cards
Students will learn:
ā¢ The true point of social media
ā¢ What social media is most often used for instead
ā¢ To reflect on why they use social media
ā¢ Why and how social media can affect mental health
ā¢ The effects of comparing themselves to people on social media
ā¢ The reality of why people really post what they post [VIDEO]
ā¢ The reasons people obsessing about likes and followers
ā¢ Why likes and followers create false confidence
ā¢ What triggers affect them on social media
ā¢ Alternative ways they can respond to triggers on social media
ā¢ How they can use their social media to make the world a better place
ā¢ ā¦and more!
I have found teaching this unit is effective in morning meetings with tutor / advisory classes or as whole life skills lessons too, depending on how much time you can allocate. It is such a valuable topic to talk to our students about. Thank you for all you do to make a difference in young peoplesā lives!
Great for Social Skills, Life skills and PSHE (Physical, Social, Health Education) lessons.
20 colorful Smart Response Posters to empower your students to have smart responses when dealing with rude comments, disputes and setting boundaries.
Itās frustrating and heartbreaking to watch your students get into arguments and relationship challenges due to the words they use. Words can hurt but itās tough to always know the best thing to say.
You want to empower your students to be able to respond to awkward, rude, uncomfortable situations with calmness, clarity and class, and now you can easily help them do this!
This set of classroom school posters contains 20 quotes that help students deal with rude comments, uncomfortable conversations or disputes and for setting healthy boundaries. These promote better classroom community and social, emotional learning. They would also work perfectly in a school counsellorās office!
You can display them in your classroom/school corridors as well as use them to prompt class discussions about why these make powerful responses and how it might affect the outcome.
The posters have a bright watercolor theme and are suitable for all age groups and environments.
I hope you enjoy using these in your classroom and around your school building to encourage your students to use the right words to empower them in challenging situations.
How to turn someone into a zombie in Photoshop: easy to follow PowerPoint tutorial!
This tutorial is a fun and simple introduction into how to use Photoshop where students can turn themselves or a celebrity of their choice into a zombie - perfect for Halloween themed activities, posters, cards and party decorations!
You can even learn how to turn yourself into a zombie too, great for personalising teaching resources and wall displays - your students will love it!
Social Media Profile Templates - āall about meā or write about fictional characters / famous people!
The use of social media is very much a part of studentsā lives in this day and age. Use this to your advantage in your lessons by encouraging them to tell you and their peers all about themselves at the beginning of the year or writing about a famous person or character from a book, using a format they love and are familiar with: social media!
In this pack you will find āall about meā templates for 3 different social media platforms and all text is editable. You can give all 3 for your students to complete as they each cover different elements, or you can pick and choose which they complete: the choice is yours, or theirs!
You can use these to learn more about your students at the beginning of the year and first day of school. It is also helpful for other students to read these and learn more about each other and find common interests too!
You could also use these for writing profiles of characters they are reading about in books, or for someone famous they are studying in class!
These days, students seem to be under so much pressure from exams and modern life, that it is crucial to teach them management techniques to give them the skills they require in order to handle stress.
This resource which will encourage your students to explore all about modern stressors and how to handle stress in a healthy way.
Your students will learn all about what stress is: why we need it, how we respond to it in the modern world, causes and effects, what we can control and what we canāt, and actions to help relieve stress. Students will get to role play and analyse different teen appropriate stressful scenarios. Your students will also be taught 3 different breathing exercises to control the physical signs of stress that are very powerful in stressful situations.
Product includes a 23 slide PowerPoint with inbuilt activities and feedback opportunities to encourage discussion and 6 worksheets to accompany the PowerPoint to demonstrate studentsā understanding.
Performance Management: Teachersā Standards Evidence Binder
With Performance Related Pay now in full swing for teachers, it is more important than ever to document the evidence to prove that you are meeting the standard requirements which enable you to earn a pay rise, or at least remain at the top of the scale.
Oftentimes during the appraisal meeting season in September, we are reflecting on our achievements from the previous academic year but it can be difficult to remember everything we have done if we rely only on our memory! It is also often confusing to know where we can find evidence to prove we have met the standards; this is why I created this resource.
Tired of being less than inspired by dull blankets of text and confusing layouts of these standards, I decided to design something a little more aesthetically pleasing and easier to navigate and organise evidence with. With this 20 page binder, you can clearly see each of the standards and you have a simple and efficient system of both making quick notes and recording hard evidence of how you are meeting the standards.
So get organised with your performance management and ensure you get the pay you deserve as a teacher!
Classrooom Decor Pennants: Growth Mindset, Motivating and Inspiring Colouring Pages about education and learning.
Iām 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.
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.
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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