Character Education Archives

How to Increase Mindfulness in the Classroom

How Mindfulness Promotes Learning: Superior Strategies for Success

Minds in Bloom is delighted to welcome Dr. Erica Warren back to the blog today! Dr. Warren is sharing an insightful post about how mindfulness

Bringing Mindfulness to the Classroom for Students and Teachers Alike

Today’s guest blogger is Lynea, and she has an excellent post about bringing mindfulness into the classroom. Please enjoy reading about a topic that you

Building Loyalty in Your Students

Hi teachers! I’m Retta from Rainbow City Learning, and I’d love to share some ideas with you about building loyalty in your students as you

It's easy to get frustrated with students who have ADHD; I'm sure we've all been there, as educators. However, our guest blogger is sharing her insight on how teachers and other educators should handle ADHD gently for the benefit of the kids who struggle with it. She's sharing some really great ideas for ways to do this, so click through to read her post.

ADHD: How to Handle Squirrely Kids More Gently

Here’s Lessia Bonn, from I am Bullyproof Music, on addressing ADHD with increased kindness and understanding! ADHD: We flit, we float. We sail on quirky boats.

Making Time During Your Day for Social Emotional Learning

Making Time for Social-Emotional Learning

I’m Retta from Rainbow City Learning, and I am so excited to be invited back as a guest blogger here on Minds in Bloom! I

Teaching positivity is sometimes easier said than done, but this guest post provides concrete tips for teaching it and using games to encourage positivity.

Teaching Positivity in the Classroom

I am so thrilled to welcome Alex from Positive Future Youth! You are going to love this post – so many great tips for making

How can I help get my students ready for middle school?

5 Ways to Prepare Students for Middle School

SVG Image Map Example Helping Your 4th, 5th, and 6th Graders Transition Ever wonder what the middle school teachers receiving your graduates really want? Not

how to teach my students to set their own learning goals

Setting Goals with Students to Boost Learning

Put the ball in their court! Setting goals with students leads to progress and a sense of ownership that will amaze them! Learning goals for

Read the advice that this teacher (and parent) has for helping struggling students to grow. She provides 10 tips for promoting and encourage growth in struggling students.

10 Ways to Help Struggling Students Grow

Minds in Bloom is happy to introduce our readers to Jennie of A House Called Home with her inspiring post on helping struggling students.

Character education is an increasingly essential aspect of curricula everywhere. The characters in The Wizard of Oz provide the perfect basis for teaching character education, and our guest blogger describes why in this post. She also shares a Character Rap that she wrote for 5th and 6th grade students. Click through to read her post and get her rap!

Follow the Character Road

Hello from Barbara Gruener, author of The Corner on Character blog and What’s Under Your Cape? SUPERHEROES of the Character Kind. I am somewhere over the rainbow

Our guest blogger created an incredible classroom management tool in her classroom: random acts of kindness! Read all about how she implemented this strategy in her classroom and how random acts of kindness have impacted the environment of her classroom.

Random Acts of Kindness: One Teacher’s Amazing Plan!

SVG Image Map Example RAK – A Simple Way to Change Your Classroom As teachers, we need lots of ideas about how to handle students who

What can I do when my students are mean and rude to each other?

Help! My Students Are So Rude, Mean, and Disrespectful to Each Other!

I often post questions from teachers on my Facebook wall. It is always amazing to see the helpful and insightful answers that other teachers post.

ideas for using secret student in my classroom

New Ways to Use Secret Student with Your Class!

If you have been doing this hop from the beginning, then you probably have a ton of great ideas by now! I hope that you

Student goal setting is an often underestimated facet of classroom instruction. Setting student goals provides both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to improve and succeed. This free worksheet will help you and your students start setting goals right now.

Setting Student Goals: Tips and a Freebie!

Learning to set goals is an important skill. Among other things, setting goals: Helps students to identify where issues or challenges are occurring. Requires students