How to Regain Your Love of Teaching

…down to 18 of the best tips. If you would like to read all of the responses, click here to find them on my Facebook page. Even if you don’t…

20 Tips for Motivating Gifted Kids to THINK!

…Gifted Kids to Think Here are 20 of the best suggestions for motivating gifted kids to stretch themselves and reach their true potential. If you would like to read them…

The Mystery of the Missing Freebies

…nice if you didn’t have to search all over Teaching Resources for them, and the best freebies were listed on one page? Great minds think alike! I had the same…

Secrets of Launching a Stellar School Year

…Launch a Super School Year webinar. Each lesson is fast-paced and packed with practical strategies and inspiration to help you launch your best school year ever! I dive into what…

Investigating Condensation and the Water Cycle

…part of a lesson on states of matter. Because this is an exploratory activity, it’s best not to provide too much background information before you begin. Condensation Investigation is designed…

5 Ways to Engage Parents Using Google Drive

number (i.e. “Student 23”) just in case. 5. Conference Sign-ups – This year I sent home paper forms for parents to sign up for a parent-teacher conference slot. They had…

5 Ways to Help Students Become Word Collectors

…backpacks and noticed when people “cringed”. They loved it!   2. Model classroom discourse! Hearing and using rich language serves a number of purposes–from modeling sophisticated language to showing that…

How to Track Oral Reading Fluency

…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…

Gifts for Santa’s Scientists

…are so clear you could easily pick it up 3 minutes before class and be ready to teach the lesson. I love how she has written Day 1 number 1,…