Differentiation Archives - Page 2 of 15 - The Owl Teacher by Tammy DeShaw

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.

DON'T MISS THESE BLOG POSTS

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?

Are you trying to figure out how you are going to foster online student engagement this upcoming school year? This post contains a few ideas for teachers who may end up teaching remotely or have to have a hybrid approach! Click through to read now!

How to Foster Online Student Engagement

You may be teaching online this summer or into the fall. During the last few months of school, you probably noticed that it’s harder to

Active learning strategies are the perfect solution for taking your students from a passive state to an active state that involves higher-order thinking skills. These instructional tactics have proven to impact student achievement, enrich instruction, and engage their thinking processes. Check out this blog post with ideas to get you started!

5 Active Learning Strategies to Boost Your Classroom

Active learning strategies are the perfect solution for taking your students from a passive state to an active state that involves higher-order thinking skills. These

10 Cooperative Learning Strategies

Cooperative learning is so important in the elementary classroom because it helps students become actively engaged in their learning process and improve their understanding of

Help students know exactly what they need to do before, during, and after testing to be successful with this motivating, inspirational, and engaging test prep activity! Also grab a freebie!

Preparing Students for Testing

Students often don’t know what to do when it comes to preparing for testing. Even if they had heard from the previous years’ teacher to

If you have to do test prep, why not find a way to make sure it's engaging? This post helps your students review material before that all important test in ways that are motivating and engaging. Check out these test prep ideas.

Engaging Test Prep Ideas

Students have to review material before a test. This is especially true before a test that has higher stakes involved. Typically schools pull out the

When it comes to testing, students don't always know what to do to help them be successful. Check out teaching these test-taking strategies before the test!

Teaching Test-Taking Strategies

One way to help your students be successful during “testing season” is to teach them test-taking strategies. I like to do this not only for

Motivate your students during your standardized testing with these test-taking motivation ideas!

Using Test-Taking Motivators

There are many ways to motivate students before a standardized test and even on that all-important test day. Don’t underestimate the need for these mini-motivators,

Engage your students in learning with games. Check out these ideas of games that will work for any content area and grab a FREEBIE to get started!

Spark a Love of Learning with Games

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

Are you looking for some games that you can use whole group to review important content with your class before a test? Check out these 5 engaging games for reviewing!

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

Do you think games are time-consuming or too competitive? This post helps you understand all the reasons why you should be using games in your elementary classroom- including one that will surprise you.

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

Stimulate curiosity with your students through this process of observation and questioning in science. It piques their interests and engages!

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

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

TRY MATH WORKSHOP!

You can finally take back your weekends with Math Workshop! How? It’s jam-packed with everything you need – lesson plans, math centers, independent work and so much more! Try it yourself. Enter your information below and check it out!

CHECK OUT THESE RESOURCES

×

GDPR Cookie Consent with Real Cookie Banner