Teaching can be challenging from time to time, especially when we are talking about holding a student’s attention and keeping it. How can we motivate a child and engage them to learn? How can we spark an interest in the content that we are teaching? And, most importantly, how can… Continue Reading »
5 Games for Reviewing Any Content
When I was in school, I remember teachers reviewing content by simply having us open a book, going to the end of the chapter, and answering the questions. It was not my idea of reviewing, nor was it exactly exciting. In fact, I hated the end of a chapter. It… Continue Reading »
Why You SHOULD Use Games In Your Classroom
Often times when I mention using games in the classroom, I am met with a look. A look of bewilderment. I’m surprised by this because I thought games were a more mainstreamed thing, but I guess it’s not. I started digging around and realized that there’s this belief that they… Continue Reading »
Stimulate Curiosity through Questioning
When children are little they are very curious about everything around them, but as they get older this tends to diminish. How can we, as teachers, recapture this creativity? We can stimulate curiosity in our students by teaching them to ask the right kind of questions. In this post, I’ll… Continue Reading »
How to Tier Your Lessons Successfully
We all have heard of differentiation. I’m sure at some point we have all wondered just how exactly are we suppose to make sure that we are tiering our content so that we can meet the needs of all of our students, both high and low. In this post, I’m going to… Continue Reading »
20 Science Career Projects and Activities that Engages
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 »
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