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PLANNING

Planning can take up a lot of a teacher’s time, but it doesn’t have to. Let me help you plan quality lessons that will meet your students’ needs and engage them. This section is here to help you so you can get back to your personal life.

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Have you ever struggled with predicting how long a lesson takes? Have you sometimes ran out of time during a lesson and not finished everything you needed to do, or ended up having too much time left over? This post covers how to estimate the time you need for each lesson.

Gauging How Long a Lesson Will Take

If you're bored with the same informal assessments such as the ticket out the door, check out this list of assessment ideas that are low prep and engaging for your classroom. This blog post includes an A to Z list of ideas for informal assessments with a FREE printable.

Informal Assessments A to Z: A list of Ideas

It is absolutely possible to facilitate learning in any subject with the six tips listed in this post. These suggestions are all based on foundational teaching practices and not on specific course curriculum. Click through to get these tips and save this post to reference later!

How to Facilitate Learning in ANY Subject

Children find word problems difficult but this post provides 7 tips to help your students conquer them and feel more confident in math.

7 Tips for Mastering Word Problems

I have a word problem for you: There was this girl who was given well over 100 math word problems in her lifetime. She learned

$Tackling fractions with different denominators can be a huge challenge for upper elementary students, but it doesn't have to be. Check out this post where I provide ideas to help your students add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators without any problems!$

Help Your Students Better Understand Fractions with Different Denominators

This post contains affiliate links In the world of fractions, numbers seem to have a split personality. You know, they get to represent part of

Partitioning shapes is an important concept in geometry that involves dividing shapes into equal parts. This post gives you some ideas on how to teach it and gives you some fun ideas too.

Teaching Perfect Partitioning: A How-To Guide

Despite the many (many) math courses I took waaaay back at university, I had still managed to never encounter the word “partitioning” until my first

Engage Students with Picturesque Problem Solving

When I mention picture books in the classroom, I’m sure your first thought is of a lower-elementary read-aloud. My kiddos always loved those days–relaxing in

12 Insider Ideas to Sensationalize Science

The importance of science in our elementary classrooms cannot be overstated. It’s a vastly significant area we have to teach, but often gets pushed to

$Help your fourth graders practice comparing fractions with these 12 games that will engage your students and work well with your math lesson plans!$

12 Exciting Games to Practice Comparing Fractions

Fourth grade and fractions: name a more iconic duo. Sure, students learn all about the basics of fractions in third grade, but fourth grade is

Problem solving isn't a math topic that teachers jump for joy over when it's time to help students with it, but it doesn't have to be this way. Check out this post where I give you the secret to painless problem solving lessons!

The Secret to Painless Problem-Solving in Math

I’m going to say it: problem-solving in math can be difficult. Consider walking into your classroom an hour from now and launching into a problem-solving

5 Effortless Tips for Teaching Divisibility

Divisibility. It’s an intimidating word, isn’t it? And I don’t just mean because you have to check several times to make sure you spelled it

5 Captivating Ideas for Teaching Factors & Multiples

If DNA is the building blocks of life, then factors and multiples are the building blocks of math. Everything from algebra to trigonometry to geometry

A display of math quests in my classroom on top of a treasure hunt map

Math Quests: Choose Your Own Thrilling Math Adventure!

If you looking for a way to engage your students, practice technology skills, review important math concepts, and increase their reading fluency and comprehension, then this resource is the one for you! It is a mix of “create your own adventure” and “math quest” in one!

Teaching Force and Motion in the Upper Elementary Classroom

Many elementary classrooms have to teach about force and motion, whether you teach the Next Generation Science Standards or a different set of standards that

One Way to Help Struggling Readers

This last school year my daughter was a struggling reader. As I asked what I could do to help her, the teacher repeatedly told me

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