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Crystal Turner

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Yr 7 Teacher • Growth Mindset • Reflector • Literacy Enthusiast • Lifelong Learner 📚🌻📖🕊🪴👩🏼‍🏫

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“The most valuable resource that teachers have is each other. Without collaboration our growth is limited to our own perspectives.” -Robert John Meehan


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Forgetting is inevitable. Use retrieval practice to protect against it. Like this 👇

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These certainly vary in age, but are ones I can seemingly always find readers who connect with them. This could be a VERY long list though! As I was doing this, I thought of a dozen more! #MGBookChat

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Learn how to manage expectations.

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UNSTUCK is Book of the Week in ⁦@theweekjuniorus⁩ ! ✍️#unstuck@SimonKIDS⁩ ⁦@SSEdLib

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What a wonderful practice! Think about the positive difference this could make in a classroom (or across a school) community!

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Critical reading includes 'Inspectional Reading': Reading with a focus on grasping the book as a 'whole thing'--also called 'Systematic skimming.' How To Read A Book: 3 Strategies For Critical Reading bit.ly/3HOBivz

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25 Essential Middle School Reads From the Last Decade edutopia.org/article/25-ess… Truly honored to see MAYBE HE JUST LIKES YOU here!! Thank you, @edutopia !!


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I couldn't help but capture the wise words of this student. 🙌 #teachers #students #classroom #schools #smile

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Let's create a thread of lines of poetry that have changed our lives. Maybe this will be something people can carry around and scroll through to find what they need. 🖤 I'll start with Derek Walcott's final line from "Love After Love": "Sit. Feast on your life."


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My TA is in school and asked if I needed any jobs doing whilst the class is shut. I asked her if she wanted to display the postcards on a map for me and she has just messaged me with this!! It looks amazing! #schoolpostcardproject #projectpostcard

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Twinkl FREE day!! 🤩💸📚🙌🏻🎊 Calling all NZ teachers - on October 16th Twinkl will offer FREE downloads for 24hrs. Get ahead by using the planner tool to drag & drop the resources you’d like to download so they are ready to go! Don’t miss this!! #TwinklNZFreeDay @TwinklNZ


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10 visuals that will change how you see personal development 1.

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Teachers see it all the time: students (and parents) who are obsessed with grades. Here are four strategies that can shift the focus from "What grade did I get?" to "What did I learn?"


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People think being positive means being less ambitious, less gritty, less competitive but the truth is you can be positive and competitive. You can be positive and fierce. You can have a humble heart, a positive attitude and a warrior spirit.


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Look for math resources that get students to think and build number sense.

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3 Practical Strategies to manage Cognitive Load. 🧠 Element interactivity ✔️ 🧠 Worked examples ✔️ 🧠 Redundancy effect ✔️

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Teaching is so weird because nobody seems to want to talk about how to explain things... which seems like it'd be something we'd talk a whole lot about. There are a few things I've learned from research into clarity of explanations that I wish I'd been taught earlier 1/


A thoughtful gift from one of my students parents today! ☺️💐💗 #teacher #nzteacher #learning #educhat #educhatnz #teach

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When I started calling parents to tell them what their kids did well, rather than always what they did wrong, my entire classroom dynamic changed for the better - and parents were happy to hear from me.


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