Create a word wall with these classroom expressions and commands for your ESL classroom! I know that getting my students to speak English aloud is a real challenge for me, especially when most of their classmates speak the same home language. I set up words and expressions around the classroom for them to refer to ... Read More about ESL Common Classroom Expressions

I created Writing Power Standards to use in my classroom, and this was a poster to help my students with figures of speech. Not all 17 figures of speech are there, but eight main ones (alliteration, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, personification, onomatopoeia, oxymoron) are included. If you ...

During the first day(s) of school I try to design activities to get to know my students and their parents, offer opportunities for them to get to know each other, build a safe, risk-free community,…

Hi everyone! Welcome to the next stop on the Bunny Trail. (and if you missed the other stops this week, click on the bunny below to go to the beginning!) This post will be short and sweet, as today is moving day in my household (yay!!!) and my keyboard is packed away (thank goodness for touch screens!) I have a fun little math page for you today. It is a "secret code" page, where the students use order of operations to solve the puzzle. My students always enjoy these, and I thought yours might too. So here you go! I told you, uncharacteristically short and sweet ;) And now on to your next stop, Kim at Finding Joy in 6th Grade. Notice how the button is purple? It matches Kim's blog perfectly! Oh, and for those of you who saw this earlier but were directed to an unfound page...you can thank the touch screen for that mistake ;)

Here is a Marzano's Student Self-Assessment Rubric that I use with my students across all subjects areas. This scale can be used before, during, and after instruction. Before introducing a new lesson, I use this scale to determine students' prior knowledge. Once I announce the standard for today's lesson, I ask the students to use the rubric to see how they think they see themselves using the standard. Students show me a number using their fingers. During instruction, I assess my students' learning and understanding of the goal being taught. I ask my students where they see themselves on the rubric now? Are they moving up or down on the rubric? Again, I ask them to show me fingers. After instruction, I use this scale as a measurement for grading to determine if my students have mastered the learning goal. Sometimes for a closure activity, I ask students to rate themselves again where they see themselves on the rubic? Do they need more practice or do we keep going? These are great for letting me know where my students are in understanding and it lets the students know where they stand with their thinking too. Click the picture above to download this FREE rubric. Here are more Marzano teaching material: The Highly Engaged Classroom Coaching Classroom Instruction A Teacher's Guide to Standards Classroom Instruction That Works Here is a blog post about Classroom Management you may be interested in: Classroom Management Thanks for stopping by today! Until next time,

Looking for an easy and fun teaching idea for your students to practice their vocabulary words? My students loved it and never realized they were learning! This strategy can work for any grade, from kindergarten to high school!

Are you looking to decorate your classroom with fun, hand-drawn anchor charts/posters? Do you find it difficult to find the time to create, draw, outline and color? Don't fret. Give me the markers. Hi, I'm the Chart Lady! I love making engaging, eye catching and educational anchor charts. I also can draw/create any other topic you would like, just contact me directly and ask! My students absolutely love these posters and we use them daily. Many students are visual learners, so the colorful images really help them connect, recall and digest what we have learned. I call this anchor chart: "Producers/Consumers/Decomposers" Students were learning the beginnings of Food Webs, in particular examples of producers, consumers and decomposers. **All non-laminated anchor charts are currently hand drawn and colored on 25x30, anchor chart paper. Once ordered, it will take a 2-3 days to draw, outline, color and ship. If you would like it laminated, it will cost $5.00 more for lamination and the size will shrink by 2-3 inches of width. I ship these out ASAP after being ordered and completed, however, keep in mind that once shipped, it is out of my control. Therefore, if shipping does not meet your expectations, I encourage customers to reach out to me first, and we can work something out to make up for anything that might have occurred that was outside of our control.** Enjoy, The Chart Lady

Praising students can actually cause more harm than good. Find out what happens when we praise students and what you could do instead!

This is an amazing game to play with any students practicing the Past Simple!Everyone loves UNO, and now you can play and learn at the same time - win, win!This pack of cards includes 80 verb cards, each with a different Irregular Past Simple verb on it. Both British and American spellings are incl...

Today I thought I’d share a strategy I use to help my students communicate their thinking during the inquiry process. See, Think, Wonder is a thinking routine I use with my students to help t…

Increasing and Decreasing Functions Activity

This blog post features five free idiom activities, like a free idioms PowerPoint, game, task cards, and an engaging anchor chart!

Are your Algebra 2 students struggling with the steps to sketch polynomials? In this post are links to activities I use in my Algebra 2 class to teaching and practice sketching polynomials. Also includes links to a few free pdf printables that work well in an Algebra 2 class.

I finally nailed teaching symbolism! Using candy was both engaging and efficient - a major win that students remembered all year long!

This FREE parallel lines cut by a transversal coloring activity doubles as a colorful reference poster or student notebook reference. Now includes a link to an interactive GOOGLE Slides version for online learning and teaching.

I created a House and Furnishing unit for cycle two students. First, I asked students to build a house (teams of two). I asked them to use recycled shoe boxes or any other recycled materials made of plastic or cardboards. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-House-1409554 Here are the evaluation grids that I use to evaluate all competencies. I asked students to play Go Fish. Here's the final result! I found this video on Youtube if you are using Tiny Twist: We played this interactive board game. Click on the picture below and you'll be automatically directed to this cool Website. If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to give me a shout out. I really love to read your comments. Have a great weekend!

My Algebra 2 students needed more practice with graphing and writing the equations of quadratics in vertex form so I made this set of task cards. You can download them free from this link.

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Overwhelmed and understaffed my first year as a special education teacher in the self-contained classroom, I discovered that implementing an effective independent workstation helped my students become more successful and independent. Click to learn how I got control using task boxes and independent workstations in my special education classroom. My students loved the differentiated math, language arts, science, and social studies curriculum with age appropriate clip art and real photographs.

A good student is someone like you - differently abled version Use these posters to remind students how to be a good student every day - and that all students are the same :) Includes: 10 Color Posters - All posters have the SAME text but different clip art/skin tones 10 Black and White Posters - Empty for students to write their own descriptions You can find the original set of a GOOD STUDENT - SOMEONE WHO by clicking → HERE SOMEONE WHO SERIES: SCIENTIST ENGINEERMATHEMATICIAN READER WRITERTECH EXPERTFRIENDARTIST **Free** SAVE BY BUYING THE BUNDLE! CLICK HERE!

Are you working harder than your students? Learn practical strategies for making the learning really matter to kids so they’re self-motivated in the classroom. You’ll discover how to inspire kids to give as much energy and effort in the classroom as you do! This post is based on the latest episode of my weekly podcast, Angela Watson’s … Continued

World Students' Day, celebrated on October 15th, is more than a celebration; it's a homage to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's vision and faith in the transformative power of education and youth. This day, marking the

Love them of hate them, they are here!It is time for parent teacher conferences. Conferences can be stressful but I actually enjoy them. Teaching is all about building relationships – with students and their families. I approach conferences as another way to deepen our relationship. We have two conferences a year; one the first week ... Read More about Mastering Parent-Teacher Conferences: Your Ultimate Guide to Success

Create a word wall with these classroom expressions and commands for your ESL classroom! I know that getting my students to speak English aloud is a real challenge for me, especially when most of their classmates speak the same home language. I set up words and expressions around the classroom for them to refer to ... Read More about ESL Common Classroom Expressions

Learning how to keep students engaged is a skill that experienced teachers have nailed. Here are my tried and tested methods for keeping your students interested in your teaching.

Goals help set a purpose and a direction for where you are headed. While you are building your classroom community, why not take the time to make some common goals that EVERY student in your classroom can work towards? Here's a little glimpse into how I do this in my classroom.

One of the most time-consuming things teachers deal with is student absences! I no longer worry about this because my students completely take care of it!

I created Writing Power Standards to use in my classroom, and this was a poster to help my students with figures of speech. Not all 17 figures of speech are there, but eight main ones (alliteration, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, personification, onomatopoeia, oxymoron) are included. If you ...

I often hear from teachers who in long missives describe awful behavior towards them. They describe angry, argumentative, and aggressively disrespectful students. Students who tell them off and try to disrupt and sabotage their class. Students who roll their eyes and refuse to look ... Read more

During the first day(s) of school I try to design activities to get to know my students and their parents, offer opportunities for them to get to know each other, build a safe, risk-free community,…

Not everything is terrible. Sometimes we let ourselves forget how beautiful the world is. It doesn’t mean that the issues we face every day are not important. Sometimes we just need… a little break. A reminder of what it all could be more like. What we could be more like.

This post aims to support you to make your feedback a powerful learning tool for your students. It describes the main traits of good quality teacher feedback.