Imagine yourself as a student in a new classroom during the first week of school. Unless your teacher starts off
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Easter egg activities aren’t just for little ones! You might not take older kids on an Easter egg hunt, but you can
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I’ve never been one to spend months teaching test prep strategies, but I also feel we’re doing kids a disservice if we
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Science is one of my favorite subjects, and I’ve always been interested in geology and landforms. I remember hiking through the White
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Seating students together is not enough to ensure teamwork. Many kids have very little idea how to interact appropriately with their classmates.
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Cooperative learning lessons are awesome for engaging students in the learning process, but sometimes a team will become overly enthusiastic and noisy.
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Google Classroom makes it sooo easy to go paperless that you might be tempted to skip cooperative learning activities and replace them
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If you’re looking for a fun way to form partners for cooperative learning lessons, try the Appointment Clock Buddies strategy. The
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Motivating kids before a holiday break can be a challenge, especially if you’re still expected to teach skills and review academic content.
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Order of operations can be frustrating to teach, but it doesn’t have to be. There’s no question that this is an extremely
Read moreGuest post by Jen from Beyond Traditional Math
I spent a ton of time avoiding group work in my early years of teaching. There were many reasons, but the main one was that I felt
Read moreIf your students are seated in cooperative learning groups for most of the day, it’s helpful to implement team table management strategies. For the purposes of this post, I’ll refer to each physical group of students as a “team table.” Some of your
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