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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

Strategies to Present New Material During Online Learning

Your students are headed back to school, and this time online learning is all about learning new grade-level content. For teachers participating in online learning,

Incorporating technology has always been a part of our teaching, but now with distance learning and teaching digitally, we have to incorporate more than ever! Learn about the SAMR model and how it affects online learning and the technology you use in the online classroom!

Teaching Digitally: All About the SAMR Model

During online learning, you started teaching digitally with little to no notification. Now that you’ve adjusted and tweaked your online learning plans, it’s time to

If you're teaching your students through distance learning this year, online PBL projects is a great option! Elementary students can practice critical thinking, independence, and so many other skills! Check out the resources in this post to get started!

Online PBL Projects for Elementary Students

Online learning has so many options available for our students. However, it’s very easy to get into the worksheet trap. Rather than share fill-in worksheets

Right now during distance learning or a hybrid teaching approach, families need some social-emotional supports to help them. This post provides a few tips to help you with online teaching and providing those supports.

Social-Emotional Supports for Families During Online Learning

The words “back to school” bring a lot of anxiety to our students and their families. Students will look to you to provide them support.

If you are looking to differentiate with google classroom, you have come to the right place. This post walks you through how to use differentiation during distance learning and with the most powerful online classroom system!

How to Differentiate With Google Classroom

Whether you’re teaching online or in person, Google Classroom is the best learning platform to work with small groups and meet the needs of all

If you are distance learning or a form of hybrid learning this year, the idea of online icebreakers could be a challenge. Check out these ideas in this post to get started for you back to school start!

Online Icebreakers to Start the School Year

Even if you’re starting your school year online, the beginning of the year will be all about building community. What better way to get to

If you have to teach online this year through distance learning, check out this post to help you with your virtual back to school night! It is full of tips to help teachers during back to school open house!

Tips for a Virtual Back to School Night

As your students return to school, it’s possible that your open house or back to school night may take place online. You can still have

How can we improve attendance during online learning? Check out these tips that will help upper elementary teachers during distance learning or remote teaching!

How to Improve Attendance During Online Learning

Raise your hand if you’ve been to a Zoom meeting in the last three months. Keep your hand up if your screen time increased 10x

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

One of the biggest challenges faced during online learning is meeting the needs of all your students. Since many schools are starting with online learning

There's a pretty good chance that you'll be using Zoom for class meetings or staff meetings this upcoming school year whether you are distance teaching or using a hybrid approach. Check out this post to learn Zoom tips for teachers and get started right away!

Zoom Tips for Teachers

Whether you are distance learning full-time or using a hybrid approach, chances are you’ll be Zooming! Zoom has been used for class meetings and staff