Checking for Understanding with Exit Tickets
Guest post by Greg Coleman from Mr. Elementary Math During my early years as a classroom teacher I felt that exit tickets were yet another initiative or showy thing to…
Guest post by Greg Coleman from Mr. Elementary Math During my early years as a classroom teacher I felt that exit tickets were yet another initiative or showy thing to…
…sort of “fingerprint” the Plickers software uses to identify each student when the cards are scanned. The number on each side is the number assigned to the student in the…
…young children and the adults who love them. Michele Gay Mother of Josephine Gay, A Sandy Hook Angel Co-Founder of Safe and Sound: A Sandy Hook Initiative Words to Comfort…
…seats without permission. They need something tangible to remind them to follow the classroom procedures. I have found that using raffle tickets helps tremendously. I give students 2 raffle tickets…
…the title of the book and the number on the card on the card. They give the card to me. When they return the book, I check that the number…
…children’s magazines are a great source of informational text. The articles are short, interesting, and appropriate for children. They often use a variety of different text structures and text features…
…How do we teach children not to be rude? We fail to guide and protect our children when we don’t teach them manners and respect for other people. One of…
…student crosses off numbers it can’t be and circles numbers it could. The person who guesses the right number, wins and gets to choose the next number. The best part…
…slow down, and connect with our creativity. The calming and therapeutic qualities that coloring has on children are the same for adults. And, yes, teachers count as adults even if…
…that celebrities and comedians like to paint a picture of students using number parts and number lines as adults, (ahem–Stephen Colbert) and I laugh right along with them…because using those…
…copy of those questions: Mystery Skype Questions Mystery Number Skype – A third version that I’ve played revolves around numbers instead of location. In this game, the children on each…
…keep track of the steps they’ve taken over the course of a week, and then offer a reward once they’ve reached a certain number of steps. Bonus: have them try…
