Sometimes a topic such as science careers can be a bit dry. And, often times you aren’t exactly sure how to “spruce it up” so students are engaged. Today, I have 20 science career project and activity ideas that I think would help you when it comes to planning! Choosing… Continue Reading »
24 Exit Ticket Ideas
We’ve probably all used exit tickets before in our classroom for a quick, informal assessment. And, I’m willing to bet that most of the time you have used nearly the same questions– something along the lines of “tell me what you have learned today.” If you’re like me, after a… Continue Reading »
Strategies to Help Your English Language Learners
I’ve made many mistakes during my teaching career and one in particular still haunts me to this day. It was with my first English Language Learner. He was a student new to America and was from South Korea. He hardly spoke any English and I was in my third year… Continue Reading »
10 Things You Need to Know About Teaching Science
Teaching science is often lower on the list of priorities for some teachers. I get it. In elementary classrooms everywhere, there is a HUGE emphasis on math and reading. But if you want your students to be successful, you have to make sure you aren’t making these ten mistakes in… Continue Reading »
Strategies for Teaching Multi-Digit Multiplication
Common Core requires that we teach students strategies before we introduce them to the traditional algorithms. When it comes to teaching multi-digit multiplication, it’s common for teachers to focus solely on the partial products method and forget about the rest. Instead, I like to scaffold my students’ learning first so… Continue Reading »
Preparing Students for Testing
At one time spring was my favorite season. It’s supposed to be a time of renewing. The trees budding and flowers are appearing. But in the land of education, it has a bleaker sight. The sight of test booklets, online assessments, stressed children, pacing bored teachers trying to catch a… Continue Reading »
Gauging How Long a Lesson Will Take
When I first started teaching I remember writing lesson plans and worrying that I was not planning enough for the small amount of time that I had students. I remember worrying that students would whip through the work and then I would be left standing there with nothing for them… Continue Reading »
Helping Students Who Rush Through Their Work
Every classroom has them. Students who rush through their work. These students often turn in poor quality work laced with frequent incorrect answers and sloppy handwriting. These careless mistakes really make you nervous when it gets closer to test time because you worry if they will take the time to… Continue Reading »
Helping Slow Moving Students
Do you have slow moving students in your classroom? You know the students who take forever on each assignment? Should you just collect their work (but they’ll fail) or give them extra time? What about the early finishers? How do you keep them occupied? How do you help these students… Continue Reading »
Examples of I Do, We Do, You Do
A while back I wrote a blog post titled, I do, We do, You do that was quite a hit. But, it also left people with some questions. Over the last year or so, I have received many emails asking for an example of what it would look like in… Continue Reading »
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