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…
…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 total number of people involved grows exponentially, as illustrated in the chart below. We had a lot of fun keeping track of the people as the story went on,…
Cooperative learning activities are often designed for teams of four students. However, sometimes a team is just too big, especially in math. Sometimes the perfect number of students for a…
…Numbers and Measurements The Man Who Walked Between the Towers includes many references to lengths, heights, and widths, so I created a set of task cards that display those quantities….
…letters for yourself and 7 letters for the class. Write the class letters in huge blocks on the board with the number values clearly shown. Play against the class play…
…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…
…3. Fostering Flexible Thinking Enter strategy number 3 – SUPERFLEX! Superflex is a program that was developed by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner and is a very popular program…
…to present. What types of content for presentations would yield high interest? Determine the number of make-and take stations and the content for each station. Examples of make-and-take stations include…
…random number generator to determine the winner. The dry erase board set will be shipped directly to the winner’s school, but it will be noted that the set belongs to…
…visual models and sharing and grouping strategies but had never connected that to bigger numbers. Instead, they had learned a procedure that had no connection to their definition of division….
…value, and justify their thinking. The students were asked if they agreed or disagreed with the following statement, “Mike believes the model below the board represents the number 1,405. Do…
…the October Activities Pack and print out the chart from there. Pumpkin Predictions Procedure Have students number off around the team, and Person #1 becomes the first recorder. Each team…
