
Differentiation
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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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

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

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

5 Tips to Using Game-Based Learning
Let’s play a game! Those words can excite upper elementary students just as much as the younger set. Students of all ages love playing games,

5 Activities for Early Finishers in the Math Classroom
Math is a subject that students learn at different rates. While some of your students may struggle with number sense, other students may be ready

Generating Questions for Science Projects
As you know, science is a subject area that is near and dear to my heart. So, it’s natural that I’m going to jump on

4 Tips to Motivate Reluctant Readers
The best way to improve reading skills is by doing just that…reading. However, what can we do for children who are resistant to reading? How

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