Show What You Know!

…you may want to reseat your students for the activity and provide each team with differentiated task cards. Students who need additional support may need an assistant or parent volunteer…

Teaching Kids How to Write Super Sentences

How do you encourage your students to write longer, more interesting sentences? You know what will happen if you simply ask them to write longer sentences… they’ll just add more…

Classroom Awards Make Kids Feel Special!

…award nominations. It saves time if you write in your students’ names before you print the copies for your students. Keep the list of Classroom Awards posted while students write…

Top 20 Tips for Landing a Teaching Job

…week, I choose a few to feature on Facebook each day, where you’re invited to chime in with your advice. When I see a post that receives a large number

The Power of Praise

…divided groups of students into two subgroups and gave them a task to complete. Then they pulled the students out one by one to give them their results and also…

Tips for Grading Cooperative Learning Lessons

…of lessons. When students take turns completing a worksheet or teams work together to solve a problem, there’s really no way of knowing how much help each student received on…