Cooking Up a Caring Classroom
…for specific topics. You’ll even find the ISBN number for each book to help you locate it! After you read each book to your class, check it off in the…
…for specific topics. You’ll even find the ISBN number for each book to help you locate it! After you read each book to your class, check it off in the…
…“Advice from Real Teachers.” When I see a question that receives a massive number of responses, I’ll select the top 10 or 15 comments to share in a post on…
…of its title. As soon as I first saw this book on Angela’s website, I was intrigued by the title and the book’s description. I had recently been reading a…
…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….
…this event is sure to keep your students completely engaged during the last days of school. Even if you don’t want to set up a tournament, you can still teach…
…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…
…on a variety of donations to facilitate these stations. Develop a theme for the event. For example, “Connecting with Super Scientists” was last year’s theme that emphasized the integration of…
…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;…
…man! I’m definitely a fan of dry erase boards, too, and I even wrote a three-part article last year on TeachHUB.com with strategies for using them in the classroom. Since…