Managing Whole Group Instruction

Before you can involve your students in cooperative learning activities or other active engagement lessons, you’ll need to establish clear procedures for whole class management. When effective management strategies are…

Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

…Jr. that’s perfect for upper elementary students! It’s just 4 minutes long and features two lovable animated characters, Tim and Moby. Somehow Tim and Moby manage to explain the important…

Class Auctions and a Classroom Economy Freebie

April is Financial Literacy Month, so it’s a perfect time to introduce a classroom economy system. This program makes a great reward system and teaches students how to manage money….

The Power of Audio Books

…Shiloh, and I allowed students in those groups to listen while reading their books each day. To manage the problem of multiple users needing the same audio player, I figured…

Helping Children Cope with Tragedy

…grasped for words that could explain the events of that morning… but there were no words. What I did manage to say was that I knew our Joey was in…

Literature Circles – Common Core Aligned & Fun!

…and apply the close reading strategies they’ve been learning during their regular reading instruction. Literature Circles take a little work to set up and manage, especially at first, but it’s…

How to Cure the Classroom Library Blues

…learn some tech-savvy methods as well as some tried-and-true ways to manage a classroom library. Today’s Question Ally, a fan of the Teaching Resources Facebook page, asked for help with…

Easy Differentiation with Colored Folders

…teachers manage centers in different ways, and what works for you might not work for your neighbor and vice versa. However, no matter how centers are set up in your…

Easy Classroom Management System that Works!

When it comes to classroom management, actions speak louder than words. If you have an effective management system in place, you don’t have to raise your voice or waste class…

The Mystery of the Missing Freebies

…there were so many freebies there that it was becoming overwhelming to manage them all. Most of those freebies were still on my Teaching Resources site, too, although many of…