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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?

Assessing electricity doesn't have to be a challenge! On the contrary, it can be authentic, engaging, and hands-on! This blog post describes in detail a STEM activity where students take on the role of engineers who have to create electric vests. Watch their minds buckle down and work on this fun STEM challenge!

Assessing Electricity with Electric Vests

I love teaching about electricity. It is one of my favorite science units, and I am always trying to think of new ways to engage

Creating Readers with Reading Rally

Each year for reading month, I like to make sure I have lots of activities going on to emphasize just how important reading is. Some

Do you have technophobia, or the fear of technology? With the constant push to use technology in the classroom and the lack of training, how can a non-geek overcome this fear? Check out these tips to help you feel more comfortable with technology!

Overcoming the Fear of Technology

Do you have technophobia? That is the fear of technology. I remember being super excited when I was in my teens and the great big

Preventing the Overload of Worksheets

Worksheets. They have been around for a long time. I would imagine the first teacher was carrying around large blocks of stone with work etched

As I've written previously, scaffolding your instruction can feel daunting and overwhelming. However, in this post I provide a list of authentic scaffolding strategies that you can start using immediately to help you meet the needs of all of your learners!

Scaffolding Strategies for Any Content Area

Not too long ago I discussed the difference between scaffolding and rescuing. I mentioned my struggles and how I was rescuing my students without even

Are You Scaffolding or Rescuing?

When I first started teaching, I avoided the students who were low. Not because I was afraid of them or because they were difficult but

An Exciting New Way to Look at Brag Tags

Brag tags are exciting, engaging, and extremely motivating in the classroom. Students love them, and there’s no doubt based on the massive supply of them

Engage your students with fingerprint storyboards. This is a strategy that can help students remember events in any content area while having fun!

Fingerprint Storyboards for Any Subject

**Keep reading… This is MORE than a Thanksgiving Post! This is a post with an engaging strategy that your students can use in ANY subject

Let me help you to teach elapsed time with these four different strategies. Check out these tips and ideas to include in a lesson while grabbing a FREEBIE!

Strategies to Teach Elapsed Time

I remember struggling with elapsed time as a child. I wanted to just simply line the numbers up and subtract. But, unfortunately, it wasn’t that

I know you have students with short attention spans in your class, so how are you supporting them? Our students with ADD or ADHD need special support to help them succeed, so this post outlines five ways that you can help meet the needs of your students who have short attention spans.

5 Ideas to Help Students with Short Attention Spans

I don’t recall growing up hearing so much about children with ADD or ADHD. Perhaps it was around, but I just didn’t notice. I do

Giving a great read aloud is tantamount to helping kids enjoy reading. In this post I share five tips to giving a great read aloud, as well as three tips for choosing the right read aloud. There are a few important factors that go into making read aloud time fun and successful for kids!

5 Tips to Giving a GREAT Read Aloud

If you have been around a while here at my blog, then you know that I love picture books and using them as mentor texts!

Teaching Children to be Skeptical

Each day children are blasted with nonstop messages that are trying to tell them how they should think: on television, there is the stream of commercials; on

Take Back Your Weekends

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