The 5 Best Methods & Specific Tips on HOW to Incorporate Each in Your Own Classroom Being a teacher is a tough business. It can be hard to navigate the classroom and know if your teaching methods are
Are any of these ineffective teaching methods still part of your practice? Time to reconsider.
This post shares tips and strategies for teaching different learning styles to meet the needs of all learners.
Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies include non-linguistic representations, generating and testing hypotheses, and summarizing.
Nothing cements long-term learning as powerfully as retrieval practice. Learn how to incorporate it into your classroom.
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Hello darlings! Do you teach vocabulary to your students? I think this is one thing we are missing in the upper grades and we are doing a disservice to our students. As they move up levels in reading, the thing that I notice that holds my students back the most is the challenging vocabulary they ... Read More about Adding Vocabulary to your ELA Block
As the author of a book solely dedicated to retrieval practice I often get asked questions by teachers, students and parents about this teaching and learning strategy. People are also keen t…
These five fun word games will have your students practicing vocabulary terms without even realizing it! Check out this list for instructions for play.
These engaging strategies to incorporate movement in the classroom are perfect for the fidgety students & kinesthetic learners in your class!
Are any of these ineffective teaching methods still part of your practice? Time to reconsider.
I recently had a great discussion with some educators about bell-to-bell instruction: the expectation that students are fully engaged in learning tasks from the first minute of the class period to the last. The conversation took place in the live chat during a session in the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Online Summit. (You can still … Continued
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Try these 5 fun and easy ways to gamify your phonics activities that will get your students up and moving!
Looking for a way to get students to have fun learning new words AND remember them longer? Try these brain-based vocabulary activities.
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Are any of these ineffective teaching methods still part of your practice? Time to reconsider.
Are any of these ineffective teaching methods still part of your practice? Time to reconsider.
Why calling on students should be the LAST strategy you use to find out what they know...and how to get ALL kids involved instead.
Executed well, student-centered instructional methods can disarm some of the more intimidating parts of academia.
Do you have students in your special education classroom who struggle with writing sentences? Or maybe they struggle with putting words together to form a sentence? Today I would like to introduce you to Sentence Building. This resource was created out of a desperate need for my own self-contained classroom. Students in my classroom, verbal […]
A change in a prompt can influence how a student responds thinks. A study found that using a problem-based curriculum can help students develop their own hypotheses and take risks — all signs of deeper-level learning.
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We have written and talked a lot about retrieval practice as a way to reinforce learning on The Learning Scientists. So, if you follow our work you know there are many benefits to retrieval practice and many ways to implement retrieval. (If you’re new, welcome! To start learning …
Need to help your students get more hands on practice for their vocabulary words? I've got 5 fun vocabulary games you can use right away!
“Hey kids, it’s time to practice our new vocabulary words.” Can you hear the moans and groans?Practicing vocabulary is boring (according to kids) but when you add in dice, it becomes a game! I call it Roll a Word! It’s easy peasy to implement! For each vocabulary students roll a die. The number they […]
Hands-on pre-reading activities that encourage your elementary students to access their prior knowledge and make predictions.
These 50+ strategies to jumpstart your teaching brain include literacy strategies, approaches to assessment, and grouping strategies.
You can use these kinesthetic activities right away! Incorporate hands-on learning into your child’s lessons and improve long-term learning.
When trying to differentiate instruction for our students, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Here are 6 Easy Ways to Differentiate Instruction
Vocabulary instruction is so critical in today’s classroom! A vast vocabulary will help students to become better readers and writers. Vocabulary is also essential to their performance on standardized tests. Helping kids to develop their vocabulary is time that is well spent in a busy classroom. I have developed a routine to teach new vocabulary
Where do you start with vocabulary intervention? These 7 vocabulary strategies are great vocabulary building tools to help struggling readers find...
Physical movement makes learning stick better, and today we're exploring six ways you can add more movement to your classroom.
Step into the Best Practices in your ELA Classroom: Gallery Walk. Discover a new approach to learning with hands-on activities that encourage student engagement. This gallery walk model fosters interactive learning, critical thinking, and a collaborative classroom environment. Revolutionize your teaching approach with this innovative method.
As teachers we know that vocabulary is pivotal in students’ success. When I was growing up, our vocabulary activities consisted of looking up definitions in the dictionary and copying them down on notebook paper. Do you think I truly understood those vocabulary words? Not. One. Bit. In order to truly understand vocabulary words and what […]
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Use this list of 107 instructional strategies to fill-in that lesson plan or teaching portfolio with some high quality teaching strategies.Or, try some of these strategies out when you’re low on ideas and looking for a fresh way to teach in the classroom!
You know that saying: "There's a lesson to be learned in everything.", well, it's true! If you're a teacher, there are many tedious little tasks you do on a daily basis that students can help with while learning job skills!
These 25 quick and easy tips for new teachers will help you create a positive, engaging, and effective learning environment for your students.
It can be difficult to learn how to differentiate instruction for the variety of learners in your classroom. Come see how we do it.
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