Checking for Understanding with Exit Tickets

students learned from a specific lesson what misconceptions individual students have about a specific skill orconcept what next steps are required for individual students, groups of students, orthe entire class…

Managing Whole Group Instruction

…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

How to Cure the Classroom Library Blues

…reading at home is more important. Eric Meisner – Place in genres. Number basket with the same number on the books. I ask students to write title and their name…

5 Math Games Every Classroom Needs to Play

…the students to write on the board, but blocks their view of the other person’s number. The “Caller” states, “Numbers Up”. This signals the two students write a number of…

3 Mindful Classroom Teaching Strategies

…admit), Brain Eater (students really relate to this one because there are SO many distractors) and Glassman (students who cry or get really angry for minor things). For primary learners,…

How to Form Cooperative Learning Teams

…each student’s team number in the box on the bottom of his or her card. To assign team numbers, start with the top row and call it Team 1. Write…