Checking for Understanding with Exit Tickets

…formative assessment educators can use to check for student understanding. Depending on your purpose, exit tickets can assist you in determining … what students already know about a topic what…

Five Ways to Teach Your Students Empathy

…benefit your community, because your students will feel safe because they have the tools to solve conflicts. 1. Use Reading Standards that focus on character to teach empathy. Most reading…

Tips for Classroom Goal Setting

…of writing their own goals and plans. Use this one-page My Goals and Action Plans freebie as a place for them to record their ideas. Academic & Personal Goals –…

Task Card Talk: 6 Strategies to Boost Learning

…are really nothing more than worksheets in a fun format! Because the academic content has been divided into manageable chunks, task cards seem less intimidating than a paper-and-pencil assignment. This…

Math Problem Solving: Knowing Where to Begin

…The assessment is available in two versions, the American Version which uses customary measurement and the International Version which uses metric measurement. If you’d like to use these assessment with…

Free Halloween Word Work – Seek & Spell Fun!

…phonemic awareness and phonics lessons, there’s just not enough time for true spelling instruction in the upper grades. This is unfortunate because upper elementary students still need lots of practice…

Going Marbles for STEM Hands-on Learning

…marble runs. Besides creating a run with the slowest time, we tried some other runs. One activity required the students to use all the pieces they were given to create…