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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

To have a smooth virtual learning school year, you're going to need to help your parents and students with these parent tech tips for online learning! Check out these four tips to make distance learning run more smoothly for your classroom!

Helping Parents with Online Learning

When teachers suddenly went online this year, we weren’t the only ones thrown a learning curve. Our students and parents also had to learn about

Are you trying to figure out how you are going to foster online student engagement this upcoming school year? This post contains a few ideas for teachers who may end up teaching remotely or have to have a hybrid approach! Click through to read now!

How to Foster Online Student Engagement

You may be teaching online this summer or into the fall. During the last few months of school, you probably noticed that it’s harder to

How to Support Students without Internet Access at Home

During this time of distance learning, we have all had to come up with creative ideas to reach our students online. You’ve held Zoom meetings or Google Meets to

With remote learning happening across our classrooms in the fall, we have to figure out new ways to build relationships with students online. This post provides some ideas to help you get to know your students digitally while distance learning! Plus, you can grab a free digital interest inventory!

How to Establish Relationships with Students Online

Many of us have spent the last weeks in remote or virtual learning classrooms. Those strong relationships you established in the classroom don’t stay strong

Seesaw is a fantastic online tool for teachers, parents, and students! This post walks you through how to get started and to use it in your classroom!

Seesaw 101 for Teachers

What a whirlwind the last month has been! Who could have guessed that a temporary closure of schools would turn into school at home for

Are you looking for some STEAM/STEM activities without having to purchase a lot of materials? Check out these activities that use just regular household objects!

STEAM Challenges with Household Objects

Although school buildings are closed, our students are still learning! Even though that means our regular in-class activities are gone this year, you can still

Have you been thinking about using Google Classroom with your elementary students? Check out this post which walks you through getting started and setting it up step-by-step!

Google Classroom for Total Newbies

School closures are happening across the country, and most of us were thrown into online teaching without a lot of time to figure out what

This blog post contains offline and online resources for when your students are not at school, whether that is through remote learning, distance learning, virtual learning, or something else. This also includes preventing the summer slide, providing enrichment or remediation, and much more!

Resources for When Your Students Aren’t at School

The most recent events have caused the majority of the school districts in the United States to close, providing teachers with last-minute notice and students

12 Activities for Teaching About Recycling

If you’re looking for recycling activities, you’ve landed in the right place! Whether it be for Earth Day, a natural resources unit, or for National

$Capacity doesn't have to be difficult for students and we can make it a bit more concrete for them now. This post has some activities that will not only help your students grasp measuring capacity but also see the connections between it and other mathematical concepts, such as fractions.$

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