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DIFFERENTIATION

Differentiation can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. These blog posts help you explore “everything differentiation” so that you can implement it in your classroom to meet the needs of every. single. student. without pulling your hair out.

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Trying to differentiate during online learning can feel like a huge challenge. This post provides lots of ideas to help make distance learning easier when it comes to differentiation in the classroom!

How to Differentiate During Online Learning

How to Tier Your Lessons Successfully

Scaffolding instruction for struggling students is an important step that many teachers need to be taking - and sometimes, teachers are rescuing students rather than scaffolding instruction for them. This post helps identify the difference between scaffolding and rescuing and helps you better understand what scaffolding instruction looks like.

Are You Scaffolding or Rescuing?

Teach your students to use critical thinking with this activity that is guaranteed to use higher order thinking (HOTS). And BONUS: this strategy is perfect for any elementary content area too!

Tic-Tac-Toe: An Activity to Build Critical Thinking

Alright, so it’s not exactly tic-tac-toe. I suppose when you play that game, you alternate with a partner, but nonetheless, it is a fun activity

No more Round Robin reading! Jazz up your students' reading practice and fluency with these tips and ideas for your elementary classroom! Plus, they are engaging!

Jazz Up Your Reading | Reading Practice

Round Robin reading is totally fine to do… If you are in a small group. We have all heard it. No Round Robin Reading! The

3 Ways to Think-Pair-Share Differently

As I mentioned before in the past, I get bored quickly. It has its disadvantages, but it also has many advantages. By getting bored quickly,

5 Different Ways to Use Task Cards

I absolutely love task cards! Who doesn’t? It’s just a worksheet all fancied up into multiple packages, right? And kids love them too! I’ve hung

Thinking Routines for Exploring New Content

Welcome back to the conclusion of Chapter 4 of Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchart. Last week I discussed the first four (of seven) thinking

Teach your students about differentiation and student's needs in the classroom with the free and engaging glyph activity!

Using Glyphs to Teach Students About Differentiation

Back to school time has always been exciting for me. I always feel like this is a chance for me to “start fresh” and try

With our classrooms and students as diverse as ever, we need to figure out ways to differentiate and meet all students' needs. Check out these ideas and tips to help you!

How to Meet ALL Students’ Needs

Since NCLB passed years ago, my focus had grown to be on those struggling learners. However, as a parent of a gifted child, I felt

Thinking Routines | Getting Your Students Thinking

These ideas that I’m presenting are suggested to be used at the beginning of a lesson or unit. The first is called See-Think-Wonder. This routine

What is Differentiation?

I’m sure most teachers out there have an idea what differentiation is. But since it is such a broad concept covering many avenues, it’s best

Tools for Making Students’ Thinking Visible

I’ve been reading Making Students’ Thinking Visible (By Ron Ritchhart, et. al) and the author is setting us up with tools of thinking routines so

Travel Fever

Want a fun way to explore social studies and writing? Why not consider travel journals? So how do travel journals work? Each student

This critical thinking activity is all about getting your students to think deeper and to synthesize in your elementary classrooms! Students will love this engaging activity!

Forced Relationships

Forced relationships. Have you heard of these? Yes, I’m still talking about education concepts. No, I’m not talking about the relationships you are forced to