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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?

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

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

ELL, ESOL, LEP, ELD. We all have experienced English Language Learners at some point during our teaching careers. Learn some strategies to help both you and them be successful!

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

10 Mistakes Teachers Make When 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

Do your students struggle with multiplying large numbers? Help them learn multi-digit multiplication with strategies such as the area model, the box method, the partial products method, and the distributive property today! Click here to find out more.

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

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

Helping Slow Moving Students

Do you have slow-moving students in your classroom? Do you know the students who take forever on each assignment? Should you just collect their work

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

Ideas for Teaching How to Write a Paragraph

Many students struggle to put together one paragraph, let alone the multi-paragraph essays that common core requires them to do. Since they often lack the