The Question Connection: Advice from Real Teachers
…or students. Answer a Question You might not have any teacher questions of your own, but you might enjoy responding to one of the questions posted. If you can help,…
…or students. Answer a Question You might not have any teacher questions of your own, but you might enjoy responding to one of the questions posted. If you can help,…
…interactive activity to the book. Ask your students to NUMBER their pages in order to be able to use their table of contents effectively. When Do I Use IN In…
…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…
…of this post if you’d like to try it! The Selfish Crocodile Using the book The Selfish Crocodile by Michael Terry, we can explore concepts such as counting, doubling, graphing,…
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…
…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…
…Family Science Night is that the evening is hands-on and minds-on. When university professors and scientists in the community agree to present at Family Science Night, this agreement includes a…
…establish Rule 5, “Keep your dear teacher happy.” Step One For a minute or so, five times a day, rehearse the five classroom rules. You call out the rule number;…
…help me move kids from a visual model for division to an abstract one. That had been what was missing for my sixth graders. They had learned division facts using…