Have you ever heard of choice boards? I LOVE using choice boards in the classroom. I use them in math, reading, language arts, science, social studies, etc. They work in ANY subject and with ANY topic. Here are my top ten reasons to love choice boards! Students love to be able to make choices in their learning Allow for differentiation… Read More
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 they mean, inside and out,… Read More
We all know that critical thinking is invaluable in the classroom today. But just how do we get kids to think critically? Have you heard of Costa’s House of Questions? It is a different way to organize the Bloom’s 6 levels of questions. Instead of 6 levels, there are only 3 levels which make it much easier for students to… Read More
I LOVE using white boards in my classroom. I use them as much as possible in any subject I can. I wanted a simple and fun way to track how my students were doing in a given lesson, so I created these two simple formative assessments. And the best part is that they are super easy to implement, and my… Read More
I am ALL about getting kids to get up and move around in the classroom. Gone are the days when I was school, and we sat the whole day long except at recess and PE. Who else remembers those days? Research says students need to get up and move for every 30 minutes of instruction. That’s a lot of movement…. Read More
You know what time it is…time to make New Years resolutions! I don’t particularly care for New Years resolutions because they never really work. What does work however is setting goals. Setting realistic goals and looking back on them to reflect and evaluate. I’ve researched 6 different ways you can set goals in your classroom with your students. 1. Books… Read More
I taught for years in Title 1 schools, where it was sometimes hard to get parents involved with their kid’s education. I truly believe it’s not because they didn’t want to help their child…I believe it’s because they didn’t quite know how. Let’s face it….school is much different than 20 or 30 years ago.So I have created a listable of… Read More
I use cooperative learning every single day in my classroom. Sometimes in every subject.I always set up my classroom so that each student always had a partner. However, sometimes I liked to change things up and pair them up differently. I mean wouldn’t you get tired of working with the same person day in and day out? What I LOVE… Read More
We as teachers know that reading at home is crucial to becoming a better reader.If you’re like me, you have used one of these. I used a reading log like this for years and didn’t think twice about it. However, I did think it was interesting that most of my students read exactly 30 minutes every night. Who reads exactly… Read More
There are so many things to hang up in your math classroom. So WHY do you need to hang up problem solving posters too? Teaching math today is not what it used to be when I started teaching 20 years ago. How I miss those days. Math today involves so much more critical thinking and problem solving than the simple… Read More
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