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Top 10 teacher movies

After a long day of connecting with your students and lesson planning, it’s important to take some time to relax and reset. With that in mind, why not pop some popcorn and curl up on the couch with a good movie.

Here’s our Top 10 picks for the best teacher movies currently available on Netflix in no particular order:

  1. Admission
  2. Bad Teacher
  3. Coach Carter
  4. Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
  5. Good Will Hunting
  6. Matilda
  7. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
  8. School Life
  9. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
  10. The Kindergarten Teacher

Top 10 podcasts for teachers

Whether you’re seeking a little inspiration for the week ahead or wanting to dive deeper into the world of distance education, here’s our Top 10 Podcast picks for teachers in no particular order.

  1. TED Radio Hour: Teaching for Better Humans 2.0
    More than test scores or good grades – what do kids need for the future? This hour, TED speakers explore how to help children grow into better humans, both during and after this time of crisis. Guest speakers include educators Richard Culatta and Liz Kleinrock, psychologist Thomas Curran, and writer Jacqueline Woodson.
  1. TED Talks Education
    What should future schools look like? How do brains learn? Some of the world’s greatest educators, researchers, and community leaders share their stories and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world.
  1. Teaching Tomorrow
    Educator Celeste Kirsh speaks to experts about the future of teaching and learning so you can get practical ideas that you can use as soon as tomorrow.
  1. Brave New Teaching
    Join hosts Amanda Cardenas (Mud & Ink Teaching) and Marie Morris (The Caffeinated Classroom) in discussions about being brave, trying new things, and all things teaching.
  1. Triple R Teaching
    It’s time to reignite your passion for teaching! This podcast provides simple strategies and practical tips for pre-Kindergarten to Grade 3 educators. Anna Geiger, M.E.d., will show you how to make small changes to improve how you teach math and literacy. Some recent episodes include “How to support reading at home” and “How to work from home while homeschooling.”
  1. K-12 Greatest Hits: The Best Ideas In Education
    This podcast brings together insightful, relevant, compelling and up to date thinking on education issues that parents, educators and advocates really care about through interviews with leading advocates and educators. Some recent episodes include “Why the two most important online teaching skills today are grace and choice” and “12 ways you can meet students’ social-emotional needs while teaching online.”
  1. Science of Reading: The Podcast
    This podcast delivers the latest insights from researchers and practitioners in early reading via a conversational approach.
  1. Angela Watson’s Truth for Teachers
    This podcast is designed to speak life, encouragement and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. Some recent episodes include “Schools are closed. This is our chance to reimagine them,” and “12 ways to connect with kids when teaching remotely.”
  1. Google Teacher Podcast
    This podcast, hosted by Matt Miller (Ditch That Textbook) and Kasey Bell (Shake Up Learning), is designed to give K-12 educators practical ideas for using G Suite and other Google tools in classrooms and schools. Some recent episodes include “Google Classroom Tips for Remote Learning” and “Google Meet for Remote Teaching.”
  1. The Creative Classroom with John Spencer
    This podcast includes episodes about growth mindset, project-based learning, design thinking, and, of course, creativity. Some recent episodes include “Taking Distance Learning Away from the Screen” and “There’s No Single Right Way to do Distance Learning.”

Get into some games

While scrolling Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the many more other apps on your phone is one way to pass the time, by now you might be in the mood for something a little more mentally stimulating. With that in mind, here are five fun and free games you can download right to your phone and play from the comfort of your couch.

  1. ScrabbleGO
    Who doesn’t love a round of classic Scrabble? This app allows you to play one of your favourite games without the hassle of having to shake up and select your letters out of a velvet bag. With the official board, tiles, and Scrabble word dictionaries, this app delivers the authentic crossword game experience. You can even play with your friends or family from their own devices.
  1. Golf Blitz
    With intense real-time multiplayer golf battles, you’ve never played a round of golf quite like this before. The way the game works is you play in real-time four-person multiplayer races to the hole to earn enough trophies and points to get you to the top of the global leaderboard. You can challenge your friends or play online against the world. The courses are outrageously creative and you can customize your golfer and pack your bag with all sorts of power-ups like stick balls, grenades and lasers.
  1. Brain Test: Tricky Puzzles
    If you’re looking for something a little more mentally challenging, Brain Test could be for you. The addictive and tricky puzzle game features a series of brain teasers and different riddles to test and challenge your mind. If you’re a fan of word games, word search games, puzzles, Sudoku or any other quiz games, this might be your best choice.
  1. Happy Color – Color by Number
    For those feeling inspired or wanting to create something colourful, there’s Happy Color, a colour by number game for adults. The app includes 6,000 pictures drawn by artists to fill in with your choice of colour in more than 15 categories including animals, destinations, hobbies and flowers. The virtual adult colouring book allows you to rediscover the simplicity, relaxation and joy of colouring without the mess.
  1. Mario Kart Tour
    Sometimes you just want to place game with a faster pace. Mario and friends go on a world tour in this version of Mario Kart as they race around courses inspired by real-world cities and classic Mario Cart courses. With just one finger, you can steer and drive and sling items as you race for the top spot.

Explore Manitoba attractions online

Museums, art galleries and zoos may be closed around the world due to COVID-19, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore some of Manitoba’s attractions from the comfort of your own home.

The Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canadian Museum for Human Rights as well as the Assiniboine Park Zoo are all currently offering virtual experiences in an effort to keep the community connected and inspired during this time.

The Manitoba Museum has launched ManitobaMuseum@Home, with a wide range of online experiences including virtual tours, museum secrets, animal adventures, colouring page adventures, wildflower Wednesdays and so much more.

In an effort to keep Manitobans inspired and creative during this time, the Winnipeg Art Gallery has launched WAG@Home, which includes My Daily Art stories, WAG@Home DIY, art inspired activities and WAG word searches.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is offering a variety of digital tools, stories and resources that let you discover their exhibits and explore human rights at home. These include virtual guided tours of the museum’s exhibits and architecture, “Share Your Story” through short videos regarding the acts of kindness your seeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as online resources for homebound kids.

While they are closed, the Assiniboine Park Zoo is bringing the zoo to you thanks to their Creature Features on Facebook Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1 p.m. Each Creature Feature will allow you to get up close with an animal at your local zoo and learn more about animal enrichment, veterinary care, adaptations, asking questions live and more.

Other online offerings from Manitoba attractions include:

  • The Manitoba Agricultural Museum helps immerse visitors in rural Manitoba’s past, providing context to the present and future of agriculture. The Austin-based museum also has an online artifact collection.
  • One of the online highlights of the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada are the 360-degree cockpit tours that allow the visitor to ‘sit’ in the cockpit or cargo hold of many of the museums aircraft.

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