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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?

Teachers everywhere know how hard it is to fit in all your standards so that you teach everything you're supposed to teach in a school year. Often, teachers don't meet this high expectation, because there's just too much. How can we start making it happen? Our guest blogger shares her insight on integrating standards so that you can fit more curriculum into your lessons - curriculum that's interdisciplinary! Click through to read more.

Integrating Standards

Time is so limited in the elementary classroom with all the standards we have to teach! How can we fit them all in while teaching

If you've been teaching for at least a couple of years now, then you're probably familiar with the gradual release of responsibility method of teaching. In this blog post, I explain how I Do, You Do, We Do works. Click through to read more about this instructional method!

Teaching with “I Do, We Do, You Do”

Each classroom is likely utilizing the art form of Madeline Hunter’s ITIP in some way. If you’re a new teacher, then you may not know

In search of ways to integrate more nonfiction into your class instruction? This blog post lists 10 ideas for bringing in more nonfiction texts and reading activities. Click through to learn more about how to integrate more nonfiction!

10 Ways to Integrate More Nonfiction into your Classroom

Common Core has required that we implement more nonfiction into our classroom. It’s so easy in elementary to focus on fiction texts, but sometimes it

Reading and writing about current events is a great way to keep students informed of what's going on in the world around them while simultaneously practicing academic skills. This blog post provides a strategy for upper elementary students to learn about current events, and a freebie is included!

Current Events in the Classroom

I like to teach my students to be aware of the events surrounding them in the world. To do this, I teach them how to

There's a constant push on teachers to create interdisciplinary lessons, especially in order to cover more academic standards. This post shares five ways to integrate writing into your science class, so click through to read all of the ideas!

5 Ideas on How to Integrate Writing into Science

If your classroom is like mine, then you have very few minutes in the day. I have occasionally joked about having to follow my kids

Make learning engaging with these 50 teaching tips, ideas, and techniques to engage students in your elementary classroom.

50 Practices that Engage Students

With all the technology and instant gratification out there, sometimes it can be difficult to engage students. I know sometimes I think, “what can I

Testing can be difficult and stressful to both the teacher and students. Consider these teaching tips and ideas to help you get through the testing season!

Getting Through Testing Season

In the world of education, testing season is the most stressful time of the year – even for veteran teachers. It’s the pressure from school

I wanted my students to be exposed to many different types of nonfiction reading - especially with the common core standards requiring it. That's when I decided to create this reading challenge freebie to engage them into reading nonfiction more! Check out this reading idea for your elementary classroom!

A Nonfiction Reading Challenge (And A Freebie!)

I’m a Common Core school district and that meant more informational text. By 4th grade, students are expected to have 50% of their passages be nonfiction reading

A Picture Book Scoot

In my school district, on Read Across America day, we dedicate the entire afternoon to just dropping everything and reading. There are some students in

Teaching math concepts so struggling learners understand can be possible! Are you doing all these ideas and tips to help your students understand math concepts in your elementary classroom?

Teaching Math so Students Get It!

Math is very important. Even without all the standardized testing, we know that it’s critical for students to grasp it. Unfortunately, there are some students

I'm tired of my students always picking the same friends when it comes to group work- so here are 8 different ideas for you (and me!) on how to group students in your classroom so that you can have cooperative learning and get some teaching done!

8 Different Ways to Group Students

Ah, groups. Students learn best in them – or do they? In my classroom, I started noticing something… When I’d say get into groups of

For this social studies and writing project, we explored nonfiction books to learn about U.S. States. We took notes on a graphic organizer, created an information writing piece, and then created our state tourist t-shirts! The students were really engaged with this fun research idea! Check it out here to learn just how we did it!

State Research T-Shirt Project

Is it just me or does it seem each year there is less and less time devoted to the subject areas of science and especially

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