Blog - Stacey Lloyd

How to Set Boundaries which Enable Creativity In the Classroom

Imagine I said, write a story. That’s it: no restrictions. Is that freeing, or daunting? Now imagine I told you: Write a story; but you must take a real-life event from your past, and write it as though it were a fairytale. Does that feel more doable? I[...]

Personal, Product Development

Radio Silence… means new products!

Remember me? I know, it has been a while since I blogged, but for good reason. Here's a quick update about what I have been up to (personally), what I am doing work wise, and the exciting new products in my store. Moving Continents J.R.R. Tolkien famously[...]

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Tips for differentiated Instruction

by Adele Levin Differentiated Instruction (or ‘mixed ability teaching’) is hard. It will not work for the teacher who likes to rock up as the bell sounds and leave when the students do. But then I don’t know any good teachers who do that. Differentia[...]

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Tips for Keeping Students Engaged

By far, my most popular blog post is my 5 Tips for Engaging Students in the First Five Minutes of a Lesson. It has been viewed over 200,000 times since I posted it. At first that surprised me – like, fell-off-my-chair surprised me – but the more I think about i[...]

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Teaching Persuasive Techniques

I need to confess something: I am a sucker for good advertising. True store. I am ashamed to admit it but just last week I ventured out to the grocery store to buy a mop I saw in some you-can't-live-without-it commercial. Luckily, I wasn't ab[...]

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Do we still need teachers?

“Are teachers still necessary in today’s learning environment?” Or… Do we even need teachers anymore? This was the provocative question posed over a family lunch recently. As you can imagine (especially if you know that my family is filled with teachers),[...]

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An Open Letter to The Disinterested Student

Regularly I see you in my classroom. You are not there right away, but if I don’t manage to make the first five minutes of my lesson enticing (which, unfortunately happens more often than I like), then you appear. Even without staring right at you, I am aware th[...]

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Those Who Can, do and those who can’t…Teach?

Teachers in our society aren’t viewed as professionals. This really hit home for me when I first saw myself through the eyes of a 14-year old boy. Let me take you into one of my classes a few years ago. I was giving a career-guidance lesson to my 9th graders an[...]

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Would You buy what your’re selling? The importance of passion in the classroom

[The following is a guest blog post by Lara. Read more about the author here.] My name’s Lara. I’m a copywriter. I come up with the words that most effectively sell a product or campaign. Want to hire me? No? Hmmm… let’s try that again. Words have powe[...]

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Teachers Are Heroes

I did my student teaching at a school in Cape Town, South Africa. It's an amazing school, with incredibly dedicated teachers doing great work with teenagers from a particularly rough neighbourhood. Many of these kids come from challenging home situations, have bee[...]