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 Learner. He was a student new to America and was from South Korea. He hardly spoke any English and I was in my third year… Continue Reading »
10 Things You Need to Know About 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 on math and reading. But if you want your students to be successful, you have to make sure you aren’t making these ten mistakes in… Continue Reading »
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 for teachers to focus solely on the partial products method and forget about the rest. Instead, I like to scaffold my students’ learning first so… Continue Reading »
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 with some questions. Over the last year or so, I have received many emails asking for an example of what it would look like in… Continue Reading »
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 ability to put together a paragraph, writing often becomes a chore and they lack the motivation to do any form of writing. So just how… Continue Reading »
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, but game-based learning is so much more. It’s not just a replacement for worksheets, a space-filler to kill time between assessments, and it’s not just… Continue Reading »
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 the idea of any science project (that’s valuable) that my students can do – but I also want to make sure that I’m working on… Continue Reading »
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 computers were coming out with the “advanced” technology of the time. Dial-up internet. It was the bomb! But, the older I get, sometimes I just… Continue Reading »
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 in it for students. I remember working on worksheets with the blue printed ink (and now they are faded yellow). I mean, look at this… Continue Reading »
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 knowing it and how I didn’t have a clue what scaffolding was, let alone scaffolding strategies! I was on a mission to determine what it… Continue Reading »
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