How to Work Smarter and Keep the Joy in Teaching
…will be to objectively determine the number of hours you’re currently working and to set your own weekly target number. Your target number might be just a few hours a…
…will be to objectively determine the number of hours you’re currently working and to set your own weekly target number. Your target number might be just a few hours a…
…fairly solid understanding of numbers and what they mean. I don’t advocate giving them to young children who have not had time to develop number sense, because entering numbers into…
…will learn really quickly that one million is a really hard number to work with in this problem and will change to a smaller number. While the students were working,…
Do you teach quadrilateral classification? If so, did you know there are THREE ways to define a trapezoid? Americans use either the inclusive or the exclusive definition depending on their…
…The assessment is available in two versions, the American Version which uses customary measurement and the International Version which uses metric measurement. If you’d like to use these assessment with…
…the American Revolution, don’t you think? Ask questions like “What do you think ‘up and to arm’ means?” or “What is the mood of these lines?” or “Is the narrator…
…problem involves underlining the key words “each” and “in all” and circling the numbers 10 and 2. The key words tell students that they need to multiply the numbers to…
…predict the number of jelly beans inside a sealed egg based on its weight. Predict the number of jelly beans in a sealed egg based on it’s weight. Analyze Class…
…Learning. It’s the best resource around for cooperative learning, and it clearly explains dozens of structures! Sample Structure: Numbered Heads Together Number students off from 1 to 4 within their…
…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…
…them in the activity. Pumpkin Seed Multiplication includes directions for the teacher as well as student directions, the game board, and the number sentence cards. To introduce the game, pair…
…3rd and 4th graders, which might be true if they have to find least common denominators. But if kids develop fraction number sense instead of memorizing algorithms, they will blow…