Team Scoot – A New Twist on an Old Favorite
Have you heard of the popular class review game called Scoot? It’s a whole class activity that gets kids up and moving from one seat to another as they solve…
Have you heard of the popular class review game called Scoot? It’s a whole class activity that gets kids up and moving from one seat to another as they solve…
…keeping the numbers the same but placing the parentheses around different pairs of numbers like this: (5 + 3) x 2 = ? and 5 + (3 x 2) =…
…golden signpost on the road to Teaching Heaven. When my teaching colleagues and I developed Whole Brain Teaching’s classroom rules in 1999, our goal was to cover every classroom problem….
…How to Play Find the States Showdown: The first Leader selects a number card from the State Numbers deck and announces the number to the team. Everyone looks at the…
…the group. 3. Transform your classroom into a place you love to be! One of the most stressful aspects of being a teacher is the sheer number of hours spent…
…worksheets. All of that is good and important: The more efficiently your class is run, the more hands-on your activities are, the more welcoming your classroom is, the better the…
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…
…a sixth grade teacher, almost half of my class had no idea how to divide. Worse, they had no idea what division was or when to use it. Of course…
Guest post by Kelly Witt Differentiation is the buzzword that just keeps on buzzing! Teachers, administrators, and evaluation systems are placing more and more emphasis on differentiation in the classroom….
…to read and understand the language of mathematics than on the ability to perform mathematics computation. In other words … Math is more than a numbers game. Years ago, standardized…
…Classrooms donation contests are all about! Not only was Francie a co-founder of Caring Classrooms, but she was also an amazing classroom teacher! To see what I mean, read the…
…help you choose the right level for your class. If you want to differentiate instruction, you can use both activity pages in your class, assigning the first page to some…
