Have Your Classroom Manage Itself!
I remember one year, there was a day that I was running late to school, which was completely abnormal for me. I am one of
I remember one year, there was a day that I was running late to school, which was completely abnormal for me. I am one of
When Common Core stated that we needed to teach addition and subtraction strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition
I remember my first year teaching. I sat up at the front of the room and rambled through a long list of procedures. A long
Recently I posted 8 Ideas to Build Fluency, but there is so much more to fluency than just reading at a good pace and accurately.
With the implementation of CCSS, there is a shift toward applied math concepts and skills taught through the use of authentic, real-life problems rather than
One of the most difficult things with teaching is being able to leave work early! It’s hard to not sit there hours after the kids
The first year that our school district implemented Common Core math, I kind of accidentally overlooked graphing. Whoops! I mean, really – my bad. I
I would like to think that most classrooms have started migrating toward the 21st-century reading best practices, but that is not always the case. In
We all have them, and we are all doing it: teaching with outdated textbooks. In fact, technology and our informational knowledge is on such an
Multiplication. Multiplication is a BIG deal in third grade and up. In fact, it’s so vital that teaching multiplication shortcuts can sometimes be your saving
Too many students today speak a language of slang or video games. Their interest in words – real language – has fallen to the wayside.
I think I have mentioned before that for some reason, in our science curriculum, we do not teach ecosystems but go straight to talking about
I often would shut the door and sit in the darkened room with one light on (sometimes just the flood light). I had a small
One best practice is to give students effective and meaningful feedback. However, I have found that often, when I talk to people about feedback, they
Fluency is extremely important because it takes students a step beyond word recognition and into the land of comprehension. Once students are no longer focusing
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