Task Card Talk: 6 Strategies to Boost Learning
…on virtually any topic, and count the number of task card sets that pop up in your results! If you’re new to task cards, you might not realize that they’ve…
…on virtually any topic, and count the number of task card sets that pop up in your results! If you’re new to task cards, you might not realize that they’ve…
…the time, and you can’t seem to focus your energy on anything positive, it’s time for a change. Studies point to a number of factors that can lead to teacher…
…be involved in the learning. Laura L. Letts-Wright: Have a parking lot. A place where students can post their questions that the teacher can answer later. Students can place sticky…
Back in March, I lost a wonderful friend who also happened to be the co-founder of the Caring Classrooms Community. Francie Kugelman and I started the Caring Classrooms giving page…
…with the scientist names on the packages. To make the activity even more challenging, you can ask students to put away all of their study materials and try to match…
…activity online, a teacher suggested that I create a compass-themed variation. Monica Horn’s students were learning about cardinal and ordinal directions, and if the printable had a compass rose instead…
Teaching measurement can seem like such a struggle. Even when you provide plenty of opportunities for kids to practice with hands-on activities, they just don’t seem to catch on. It…
…cutting it out, then gluing it to an index card. On the index card we recorded the price in standard, word, and expanded form as well as drew a base…
…the impact that he had on America. However, as a classroom teacher I struggled to find appropriate teaching materials for elementary students on this topic. Most resources were either too…
…not as fluent. Then I showed them how to time each other for one minute as they read aloud, and how to help each other calculate the average number of…
…that the problem can’t be solved without the parents and teacher working together closely for a few weeks to find out where the system is breaking down. Parents can’t make…
…tune you out, and the ones who weren’t causing the problem will be irritated at having to listen to a lecture when it wasn’t their fault. Remain pleasant and calm,…
